Authors use many different forms of hooking the reader and grabbing his/her attention. Some examples that authors use to hook the reader are dialogue, description and creating a picture in the readers' mind. Poalo Bacigalupi gives conflict early on in the novel to attract the audience to his book. He engages the reader very early. This is one of the reasons that made me want to keep reading.
In the first paragraph in chapter 4, he starts engaging the reader, "In a way, the black muck of the oil was no worse than the blackness above. Nailer let his hands do the work of seeing. He quested down along the rim of the door, sinking deeper, reading its outline. His hands touched a wheel lock. Nailer's heart surged with relief" (Bacigalupi 32).
During that paragraph Nailer fell into a oil pocket while searching for copper in a ship. While crawling through vents, the vents collapsed, dropping him into oil. This intrigues the reader wanting him to read more and learn how he escapes.
Another example of how Bacigalupi uses his writing techniques to keep me engaged in his writing is by using dialogue. On page 127 there is a conversation going on between lucky girl, Nailer and Pima. By using dialogue it makes the story more interesting and it makes it easier to visualize a picture in my mind.
So once again I think Bacigalupi uses many techniques to make me want to keep reading this novel.
In the first paragraph in chapter 4, he starts engaging the reader, "In a way, the black muck of the oil was no worse than the blackness above. Nailer let his hands do the work of seeing. He quested down along the rim of the door, sinking deeper, reading its outline. His hands touched a wheel lock. Nailer's heart surged with relief" (Bacigalupi 32).
During that paragraph Nailer fell into a oil pocket while searching for copper in a ship. While crawling through vents, the vents collapsed, dropping him into oil. This intrigues the reader wanting him to read more and learn how he escapes.
Another example of how Bacigalupi uses his writing techniques to keep me engaged in his writing is by using dialogue. On page 127 there is a conversation going on between lucky girl, Nailer and Pima. By using dialogue it makes the story more interesting and it makes it easier to visualize a picture in my mind.
So once again I think Bacigalupi uses many techniques to make me want to keep reading this novel.
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