Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Christ! You could have drowned! They’re just supposed to throw you in the water in your underwear and run! What the hell were they thinking! Who was it? Kevin Richman and who else? Do you remember their faces?” (pg. 28).
This is a hook because at this point in the book which is early, you did not expect stuff to happen so quickly. This prank surprises the reader and makes them want to reads more. And once you find out that they weren’t supposed to duct tape him together and just throw him in the lake in his underwear, the reader is shocked and is wondering why they have tapped him together. The Colonel, his roommate, is even surprised which makes us confused as why he wanted them to throw Pudge in the lake and why the people who did it, taped him. This part in the book is a thing that causes many other things to unfold. Once you learn further information that is given like Alaska turning in her roommate, the reader gets sucked into the book and can’t put it down. This is what makes writers like John Green so popular among teenagers.
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