"Hooking" the Reader

       "He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu. Like, he'd be driving to work, and he'd see a girl with red hair standing on the corner--and he'd swear, for half a choking moment, that it was her. Then he'd see that the girl's hair was more blond then red (Rowell, 1)." Park, one of the main characters, is telling the reader how he misses Eleanor, another main character. Eleanor had to leave town to go stay with her Uncle Geoff. You want to know why? Her stepfather, Richie-- remember him?-- was trying to come after her because she came home very late one night from being out with Park. But Richie and Eleanor's mother didn't know about Park. They didn't even know that Eleanor had a boyfriend.

        So once she had gotten home that night, there was a lot of screaming and yelling coming out of Richie, so Eleanor went up to her room as quickly as possible and took out the picture she had of Park. But then she had realized that the special box filled with all of her prized possessions, was opened and nothing was left inside. Eleanor was devastated, so she left to go to Park's house and she told him everything that had happened. That's when he decided he had to take her to her Uncle's house in Minnesota, where she would be safe. And then he started seeing things when she was gone. Just like in the selection up above. This is showing how much he really wanted to see Eleanor again.