Cover of Noli Me Tangere

Noli Me Tangere, it originally means social cancer, but its direct translation is "Touch Me Not". Touch Me Not has a biblical basis: when Jesus resurrected and Mary Magdalene was about to touch him, Jesus said "touch me not". But Jose Rizal, author of Noli Me Tangere, entitled his novel as such because the novel talks about things that people during his time would not dare to talk about.
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In the cover of the novel the most dominating thing is the title Noli me Tangere because as I've said before it talks about something that no one would dare talk about during his time. He exposed the "social cancer" of his time.

The cover of Noli is divided into two parts: the upper part is the good side while the lower part is the bad side.

The silhoutte of the girl represents the women during Rizal's time.

The writings which is partly covered by the title is a letter of Rizal dedicated to his parents.

The sunflower in the upper part of the title, near "me", represents the youth whom Rizal refers to as the hope of the country.

On the lower part of the title you'll see (in a better copy of the Noli Me Tangere cover) is a hairy calf. This represents the typical friar during Rizal's time.

You'll notice that Jose Rizal's name is in the bad side of the cover, well honestly I forgot the reason behind it, all I could remember is that the letter "L" of Rizal is attached to a bamboo and the reason behind this. If I remember it right, bamboo represents change, so that means that Rizal will change. (something like that)