Teen Board
Books are published in many different countries and languages, and with those changes come cover changes, too. Some countries only change the title to a different language, while other countries change the covers drastically, making the book look unrecongnizable. I decided to take a look at different books and see how different countries changed the covers. See my comparisons, below!
I live in rural Massachusetts, which is not always the easiest place for a bookworm to be. Luckily, reading fuels the imagination, so I have been able to come up with some ideas for quenching my book cravings.
During a discussion starting at lunch and ending much later, my friends and I noticed a strange thing. We had been discussing the Harry Potter series and many of our favorite characters were the minor or side characters (Minerva McGonagall for me.) The problem, we realized, was that the main character Harry was likeable but fell flat when compared to the whimsical Luna, acerbic Snape or the hilarious Fred and George Weasley. Herein lays the problem with main characters: while trying to create a protagonist to whom everyone can relate to, the author sometimes turns them into an “average Joe/Jane” that becomes more of a plot device than a character.
