“Sophie Martineau looked out the window of her mother’s 1954
Ford station wagon and watched her life slide behind her into the past. It was raining.
It rained a lot in May in Louisiana, but Sophie couldn’t help feeling this rain
was personal. It was bad enough to be saying good-bye to her friends and her
school and the house she’d grown up in to spend the summer stuck out in the
bayou with grandma and aunt Enid, knowing she’d be coming back to a different neighborhood
and a different school in the fall. Doing it in the rain was just rubbing her
nose in it.” Sherman 1 I believe this paragraph is hooking because the author
took time to write how the rain made the day worse. The author was being descriptive
and using details throughout the paragraph in order the capture the reader’s
attention. The context of this paragraph
is that she just moved and that the author wants the reader to realize how much
the main character Sophie has lost. Also the reader did a great job with
capturing a bit of the past. The descriptions and details make it easy to
visualize, almost like you’re watching a movie. Personally I thought that the paragraph
was easy to relate to.
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