If I intended on hooking a reader I would put in my favorite passage of the book, when we first meet Eleanor. "Park noticed the new girl at about the same time everybody else did. She was standing at the front of the bus, next to the first available seat ... Not just new—but big and awkward. With crazy hair, bright red on top of curly. And she was dressed like… like she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe like she didn't get what a mess she was… Like something that wouldn't survive in the wild" (Rowell, 7-8).
I chose this quote with the intent of hooking readers because this is one of the biggest problems in the book, Eleanor's appearance. This shows what Parks' first opinion of Eleanor was, even though his opinion didn't stay like this for long it effected how he acted towards her at the beginning of the book. He had never talked to her before and half of his opinion was based on his peers surrounding him.
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