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typical of Cherry . She seems to be holding a handkerchief to her chin , which may suggest that she is crying , but this is difficult to grasp . She is depicted at a personal distance , i . e . a distance where the reader can identify with the character ( cf . Kress and van Leeuwen 124 ). She is gazing slightly up and to the side . She does not look at the readers and does not demand anything from them . Instead , they are invited to look at her and wonder what may be troubling her , who she is talking to , what kind of conversation she is engaged in , and whether she is crying . Could the conversation have anything to do with the secret journey mentioned in the title ? Although this cover is somewhat stripped of the details that we find on the American and Swedish covers , it may be the cover that engages readers the most since it challenges them to think about what might happen in the novel . Judging from the background , she appears to be in a hospital , probably at Spencer .
As stated above , the most obvious symbols of war and patriotism depicted on the cover of the first American edition of Army Nurse have been omitted from the Norwegian version . Here , there is nothing to signal that the novel is about Cherry going to war . As mentioned earlier , the title of the Norwegian target text is also rather different from the original , namely Søster Cherrys hemmelige reise (“ Sister Cherry ’ s secret journey ”). However , the title is the only component of the book cover that could suggest a military theme�the journey is namely secret . It could be hypothesized that the war was still a painful memory in Norway in 1952 and that the publisher has tried to avoid this theme as much as possible on the book cover . In Sweden , the novel was not published until 1956 and its readers had not experienced the war . The war was not a theme that the publisher chose to highlight with any overt symbols , but Cherry ’ s gaze and posture suggest that she has
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