Too much Tolkien

I decided to read Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, as I remember a poster of it being up in my form room back in year 10 and I've always wondered what it was about. It's also the only book my mate Dave's ever finished reading, as he despises books ("Fuck reading, if there's a film I'll watch the film, if there ain't a film it ain't a good story" - David Barley) and I was intrigued to find out what the reason he'd been able to finish this book was. Turns out it's mostly because it's short (I read it in a few hours) but it is a good book.

After reading a book we were tasked with creating a front cover for it. I decided to have a silohuette of a dead rabbit with a reddy orange background. The reason for this is to me the main theme of the book is the dream of freedom. Rabbits are carefree, and they have connotations of dreams. Another reason I chose a dead rabbit is that throughout the book George talks about his and Lennie's fantasy homestead where there'll be lots of rabbits for Lennie to look after. However their dreams fall through when Lennie kills Curley's wife by accident, the same way he kills a mouse at the start of the book. With that action George's dreams are killed off.

Also it's a sad book, I wanted a macarbre cover to set the tone right. I used a font from a 1920s poster about drifters never harvesting anything. I have the white lines going through the picture to represent either the boundarys between fields, or the boundarys stopping all the characters from achieving their desires.








I'm happy with how it came out, I could imagine it as the cover quite easily.