Some initial sketches and ideas for the new Penguin brief.

These are some of the initial idea's I have drawn up on the computer, I have based these ideas on a transcript I did of my favourite bits of on the audio book. The parts of the novel that particularly found fascinating where where spoken by the character Hardy. All these spoken parts are very descriptive of what being in the metal hospital would feel like, he uses descriptive language when describing certain situations using a lot of metaphor's. I want to focus on these metaphor's because I like the way the reader can relate to the story, it helps you understand the situation in a more familiar way. 

-AUDIO 2, 6.18.

THIS WORLD BELONGS TO THE STONG MY FRIEND,

WE MUST LEARN TO EXCEPT IT,

THE RABBITS EXCEPT THEIR ROLE,

AND RECOGNISE THE WOLF AS THE STRONG,

THE RABBIT DIGS HOLES AND HIDES WHEN THE WOLF IS ABOUT,

MR.MACMEFY,

IM NOT A CHICKEN,

IM A RABBIT,

ALL OF US IN HERE ARE RABBITS,

HIPP-ATY HOPP-ATYING THROUGH ARE WALT DISNEY WORLD.

-AUDIO 5, 3.05.

THAT’S THE SHOCK SHOP MY FRIEND,

ELECTRO SHOCK THEROPY,

THOSE FORTUNATE SOULS IN THERE ARE BEING GIVEN A TRIP TO THE MOON.

-AUDIO 5, 3.35

HERE’S HOW IT CAME ABOUT,

TWO PHYSIARISTS WERE VISITING A SLAUGHTERHOUSE,

AND WHERE WATCHING CATTLE BEING KILLED BY A BLOW BETWEEN THE EYES WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER,

THEY NOTICED NOT ALL THE CATTLE WHERE KILLED,

SOME WOULD FALL TO THE FLOOR IN A STATE THAT RESEMBALED AN EPELETIC CONVOLSION,

‘THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR PATIENTS,

THE INDUSED FIT,’

IT WAS KNOWN THAT MEN COMING OUT OF AN EPELETIC CONVOLSION WERE CALMER AND MORE PEACEFUL FOR A TIME,

VOILENT CASES COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTACT WERE ABLE TO CARRY ON RASIONAL CONVOSATIONS AFTER A CONVOLSION,

IF A SESURE COULD BE INDUCED IN NON-APERLECTICS GREAT BENEFITS MIGHT RESULT,

AND HERE STOOD A MAN INDUCING SESURES IN COWS WITH A HAMMER,

BUT IF THEY WHERE GOING TO KNOCK A MAN IN THE HEAD THEY NEEDED TO USE SOMETHING SURE AND MORE ACCURATE THAN A HAMMER,

THEY FINALLY SETTLED ON ELECTRICITY.

These ideas below are most based on the conceptual side of the novel. I am also considering focusing the front cover more on the emotions that the book tackles. Below i have shown some quick sketches: 

 

I am liking this idea a lot because of the idea i have behind it the concept of the glass where the nurse talks to the patients through, where the patients collect there cigarettes, where MacMerfy smashes through he glass to grab cigarettes. The pain of glass that separates the sane and insane, the apparent wright from wrong, and the divide. 

I found it partially interesting in the book when MacMerf please y goes up the the glass to ask the big nurse to turn the music down that plays repetitively, the nurse replies softly but with conviction 'No', then this is what i found of particular interest... she asks him to take his hand off the glass as his hands are greasy and are dirtying the glass. MacMerfy held it together, agreed and moves away, knowing that the war isn't over yet!

The reason i have chosen this particular small insignificant part of the book is because i feel it encompasses the basic underline story of the book. In the way it shows the relationship between two of the main characters and the divide shown by the glass, the cruel but kind attitude toward each other, that though out the book is a big part that drives the happenings in the hospital. 

I can also imagine an approach to this concept visually for the book cover. My basic idea that i have loosely considered is that  could have an illustrated book cover of the main day room where they all sit, characters dark but the