Cover With the Best Fit

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on which book cover they feel best suites The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. Their taste of which cover would most likely be based on how they feel about the theme and tone of the book. I feel that the fourth cover best fits the story and theme of it all because Lessing was touching on the way that society looks at disabilities and differences ( in that time period ). Society shunned all that were different and ostracised them so they could only look on at all the fun of life but not be part of it. The family left Ben to witness fun times but never really be included, or even understood. "Sometimes it seemed to her that she spent her life trying to understand what Ben was feeling, thinking"(Lessing 67). In the cover picture, the little child is looking through the window with a longing, hopeless look on his face. His hand is placed on the window and that gesture shows that he's reaching for what the others have and just knows that there will always be something, a miscommunication, in between him and the others. The window represents that barrier.