Touching the Surface

The cover of Lucy incorporates many foreshaddowing pictures and colors from the story itself. The painting on the cover depicts a woman who does very much look how we would imagine lucy to look. Her hand is placed in the middle of her chest and looks as if it is pushing something away. Her head is turned away from the light source, which I took to mean that she was trying to turn away from the bright source in her life and toward something that she was not ment to be involved with. The daffodills on the cover not only tell the reader that there will be daffodills in the story, but also that the daffodills will be a large part of the story.
The colors on the cover reflect back on the place to the place she came from. The bright oranges and different greens make the reader think about bright exotic colors and tropical islands. However, the colors in the painting are very drab and colorless. The various browns in the painting on the cover reflect New York, where she currently is. Her life traveled from a colorfull paradise to a very monotone city. It is as if the reader can see how all of the color in her life drained because of her new "adventure".