Mrs. Draper chose to make this book cover seem depressing and gloomy to set the tone of the story before the reader reads it. This book is about a boy named Andy Jackson driving a car that crashed one night after a game. Killing a boy named Robert Washington, his best friend and the captain of the HazleWood High Tigers. It was late, and they'd been drinking, and now, months later, Andy can't stop blaming himself. As he turns away from his family, friends, and even his girlfriend, he finds he's losing the most precious thing of all his ability to face the future. As you can see we can assume that Andy is the young man on the cover. He has this guilty or self-regret facial expression to represent depression which most of the time that's how people look when there depressed. The author made the background blue to make it gloomy because generally this color sometimes is related to sadness or darkness. These key details of the cover helps capture the reader attention before he/she reads