Hooking the Readers

 

 

Reminder—I’m only using a chapter in this book to give the readers the explaining of hooking them.

 In I’ll Give You The Sun, the author Jandy Nelson starts off “hooking” the readers by having Noah telling his story on how it started. First off, Nelson incorporated bullies name Zephyr and Fry who pick on Noah.   The quote “With Zephyr and Fry- reigning neighborhood sociopaths- torpedoing after me and the whole forest floor shaking under my feet as I blast through air, trees this white-hot panic.” This helps the readers wonder what had happen to Noah and what made Zephyr and Fry do this to him. Also, it makes the reader continue to read.  Another quote Nelson uses to get the reader’s attention is “Then Zephyr’s on me, has one, both of my arms behind my back and Fry’s grabbed my sketchpad. I lunge for it but I’m armless, helpless. I try to wiggle out of Zephyr’s grasp. Can’t. Try to blink them into moths. No. They’re still themselves: fifteen-foot-tall, tenth grade asshats who toss living, breathing thirteen-year old people like me over cliffs for kicks.” This shows that Noah’s story has a lot of conflict in his story. I mean, who doesn’t love some drama in a chapter or even in a story. Nelson also use capitalization and puts words or a sentence in the beginning of the story and makes the text of it larger. Here’s an example,” This is how it all begins.” This helps the readers know what part of the story they are at.