One section of Looking for Alaska that has the intent of hooking a reader is, "Two minutes later we were crouched behind the trees fifty feet from the Eagle's back door. My heart thumped like a techno drumbeat. 'Thirty seconds,' Takumi whispered, and I felt the same spooked nervousness that I had felt that first night with Alaska when she grabbed my hand and whispered run run run run run. But I stayed put.
I thought: We are not close enough.
I thought: He will not hear it.
I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.
I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.
'Hey, Pudge,' Takumi whispered, 'you can do this, dude. It's just running.'
'Right.' Just running. My knees are good. My lungs are fair. It's just running.
'Five,' he said. 'Four. Three. Two. One. Light it. Light it. Light it.'
It lit with a sizzle that reminded me of every July Fourth with my family. We stood still for a nanosecond, staring at the fuse, making sure it was lit. And now, I thought. Run run run run run." (pg. 104)
The section i thought really hooked in a potential reader was in the before section, and the part where i took this very long quote from was when Alaska and her group of friends were about to pull the barn prank. The reason they were pulling this prank or you could say "pre-prank" was to lull the administration into a false sense of security. The juniors and seniors pull of a prank sometime in the year and with the prank Alaska is doing, they will think the juniors and seniors have already done their prank for the year.
One reason I think that this section of the book can really hook a reader is because it is suspenseful and it also really describes what the characters are thinking when pulling this prank.
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