http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/hook.php
-This article says that transitions are managed in the mainstream, mass-audience movies, and many more. The article also says that unity is needed in the hook. The unity of hook towards the audience is very needed.
1.) A sound can hook to another sound.
2.) A sound can hook to an image.
3.) An image can hook to an image.
4.) An image can hook to a sound.


http://authormarketingtools.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/writing-the-introduction-how-to-hook-your-audience-and-keep-them-reading/
- You have to make a hook that makes the reader content, and want them to stay reading.

1. Begin with a question or a challenge to your reader.
2. Follow this with a good thesis statement that identifies the objective of the work, makes a point with making, provides structure for the complete work and is easy to identify.
3. The remainder of the work should be filled with stories and solutions that the reader can connect to as they continue to read.
4. Make sure that all of the remaining sections of the work are compelling, well organized and easily read.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/print_article.php?articleId=10699
- This article says that the hook should be good, enough to catch the reader, audience's attention, because if the hook is not good, the author has many possibilities to lose the reader's attention. The hook also gives the reader a good idea of what the text will be like.


“The Tell-Tale Heart”
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

- TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.

The hook is quite interesting enough for me. I would consider this hook as a good hook. It is good because it got my attention using suspense, questioning the audience, and with many interesting details. The hooks from a literary text and a movie text differ because the literary text has to catch the audience's attention by just using sentence, while the movie can not only use words, but sounds, and visual effects.



3 Examples of Hook:

Online News Article: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_contents.asp
Hook:Swine flu may infect half the U.S. population this year, hospitalize 1.8 million patients and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths, more than twice the number killed in a typical seasonal flu, White House advisers said.
-This hook gives you a shocking fact or a prediction that might become true.

Book: Where The Red Fern Grows
- This book's hook gives you a interesting detail of what the main character is like, communicating in a awkward way of speaking.

Movie: Wall-E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UblUO0LjPUg
- This movie makes you think what happened to Earth, after showing the Earth covered in Trash. Also, the sound or the song is kind of the hook as well.