Summer Reading Entry Three

The quote that I found to be a good hooker in The Book Thief comes fairly early in the book. The quote sets up some interesting ideas for the reader to ponder and play with for predictions and foreshadowing. "Eventually, Liesel Meminger walked gingerly inside. Hans Hubermann had her by one hand. Her small suitcase had her by the other. Buried beneath the folded layer of clothes in that suitcase was a small black book, which, for all we know , a fourteen-year-old grave digger in a nameless town had probably spent the last few hours looking for. "I promise you," I imagine him saying to his boss, " I have no idea what happened to it. I've looked everywhere. Everywhere!" I'm sure he would never have suspected the girl, and yet, there it was-a black book with silver words written against the ceiling of her clothes: The book thief had struck for the first time- the beginning of an illustrious career." - Markus Zusak. The context of the book at this time allows this to hook the reader, because we know it is narrated from a third person view ( by who we can predict is death, given how he describes himself). The quote hooks the reader because it entices them to find out what other books she will steal, and what do each of them mean. Are they for fun?Money?Knowledge? The reader must find out by reading more after this hooker.