Hooking the Reader

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Hooking the Reader
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What is the narrative perspective? How do these
openings grab the readers attention?

• The beginning is simple to mark. (Enduring Love
  Ian McEwan)
• 2. On the day her life changed forever, Sky woke
  early. (Throwaways, Ian Strachan)
• 3. I found him in the garage on a Sunday
  afternoon. (Skellig, David Almond)
• 4. Maybe we all want to burn off across the
  horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into
  some unknown territory and meet ourselves out
  there. (Dear Nobody, Berlie Doherty)

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• Now, look at your opening line, can it be
  improved?
• Have you hooked your reader?