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The boy is old and has found a lost thing.

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The lost thing might not be able to move nor talk.

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In the book, on the second page, it has a sign saying do not touch which is intriguing.

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i think he is alone in this town or every body is indoors (or on holiday).

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He can only remember one story so it must be the best one for I only remember the best things.

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It shows in the text he is not a child for he is collecting bottle tops tirelessly so the author is suggesting he doesn't go to school.

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I think that he doesn't have any friends because he spends every day alone working on his bottle cap collection. Also, the front cover looks very dull and isolated, almost like he is the only form of civilization there.

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On the front cover the author is tricking you for  it looks like the scientist has built the thing instead of finding it.

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I think he wants to be friends with the thing . Also, he could be a child because he might collect bottle lids while hes at school or he might miss school so he can collect bottle lids.

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The author must have a big imagination because he uses a lot of adventurous vocabulary to hook the reader in on the first double page.

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You can tell the man in the picture is not a child because it says in the text "working tirelessly" so he is putting all his effort in to his bottle top collection and doesn't seem to go to school.

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It says in the story that the character (who found the lost thing) spends his time collecting bottle lids (which I think is boring).Do you think collecting bottle tops is boring?

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The author asks you a rhetorical question  to make you want to read more of the story.

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I don't like the front page for the colours are really dull.

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On the front cover it kind of hooks you in for it does not tell you much about it.

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Unfortunately, the man on the first 2 pages has forgotten all of his stories except for 1(this one must be good).

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The lost thing starts by saying he only enjoys collecting bottle lids, which is boring. Do you think that is boring?

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The lost thing was near the beach.

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The author has made the book cover eye catching so everyone will want to read it and can have an adventure.

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The man must of had a good life, he knows lots of stories, but  now he is forgetful.

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On one of the pages, the mysterious man in the book says that he has lots of stories to tell but he can only remember this one, which suggests that this is the best story.

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I think that the author (Shaun Tan) started with a rhetorical question so the reader is more interested.

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The insecure man - who lives a boring life - picks up bottle tops (to collect them). Somehow,  he  makes it sound exciting.

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It says in the text "I was as usual working tirelessly  on my bottle top collection ". This suggests that he is quite boring.

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The boy spends all of his time picking up bottle tops but he mustn't of had enough of picking them up yet because the author uses the word "tirelessly".

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it makes you want to carry on reading because you really want to listen to his story and you want to find out what the thing is (I really want to carry on reading this book).

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The poor, old man is wasting his time collecting tops which suggests he doesn't have an interesting life.

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I think the man is old because he doesn't go to school.

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The man has used a rhetorical question-"so you want to hear a story?".

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I think the man is old for he spends all day picking up bottle tops. Also the cover is detailed with lots of dark colours. As soon as i saw the man i thought he was a scientist.

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This says that he collects bottle tops and he does not do any thing else because he does it "tirelessly".

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In the book the man sounds boring because he is "tirelessly" collecting bottle tops.

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I think that the boys life is boring for he spends all of his time collecting bottle tops.

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You find out that this man picks up bottle caps for a living.

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From the text, you can tell that he is an old man ,who likes collecting  bottle tops.

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On the first double page I found out hes got a collection of bottle-tops.

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Surprisingly,the man in the picture seems to have forgotten all of his stories except for one. Therefore, it it must be an epic story.

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He is working tirelessly so he is not tired of doing it yet.

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The author has used a rhetorical question at the start to hook the reader in, so it won't seem like a boring story.

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From the first double page, I have found out that the the man in the picture  collects bottle caps,which he finds along the sea front.
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The man on the front cover collects bottle tops everyday for he wants to improve his collection (''working tirelessly on my bottle top collection'').

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From the text, you can tell he is not a child for  he doesn't go to school. You know this because it says that he spends all day collecting bottle caps. The author uses the word "tirelessly" to suggest that he isn't bored of doing this job, and that he really loves it.  In the very last sentence, the author tried to hook the reader by saying "the thing" and not giving too much away.

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All a sudden there was a young boy and he was walking along the beach but he stopped for no particular reason. Suddenly he saw the thing. Did you know that the author is called Shaun Tan?

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The author has used a rhetorical question to hook the reader.

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By using a question (would you like to hear a story) i think that the author wants you to turn onto the next page to make you want to read it and hear the story.

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From the first  double page you can tell that the man is not a child for it says in the text he is " tirelessly working on his bottle - top collection".

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The author hooks the reader in by asking rhetorical questions

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I think he is very boring for he only collect's bottle tops.

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The author has used a rhetorical question to make you want to read it.

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The author used "going" for a suffix.

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When the old man is collecting bottles he sees a thing near the beach.

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In this book it says that the man "as usual" is working tirelessly  on his bottle top collection. This suggests that he is a pretty boring person.

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In the book it says "so you want to hear a story" and its trying to hook the reader and make them want to read more. Also the writer, Shaun Tan, is trying to make you go on a beautiful adventure with him.

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By using a question (would you like to here a story) the author is trying to get people to want to read more of the book.

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I think he has found a robot.

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In this story the man was talking to the reader he sade"so you want to hear a story?

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I think the author is hiding something.

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the author shaun tan has used a rhetorical question on the first double page to hook the reader

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The person telling the story must have had an interesting life for it says "well, i used to know a whole lot of interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious".

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The author, Shaun Tan, tries to hook you in by starting whit a rhetorical question.

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By using a question ( so do you want to hear a story ) the author wants you to move on to the next page for he wants you to get interested  in the rest of the story

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I think he is a scientist because of what he is wearing.

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The author, Shaun Tan, uses a rhetorical question to encourage the reader to keep on reading the book.

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I think that the author is making the readers feel like they are going to want to read more of the book.
I love this front cover because of the detail.

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From the first double page, I have found out that the the man in the picture  collects bottle caps,which he finds along the sea front.

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By using a rhetorical question, the author, Shaun Tan, hooks the reader. It says "So you want to hear a story?" which suggests that they are going to tell you an epic story. The man in the story (who is not yet named) collects bottle caps, which suggests that he has quite a boring life and nothing much happens. Also, it suggests that he is quite a strange human being.

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The author is called Shaun Tan and he created this book so people can read it and enjoy it.

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By using a rhetorical question (so you want to hear a story?) the author immediately hooks the reader for you want to keep on reading to listen to the story.

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The author, Shaun Tan, uses the word "tirelessly" to describe the way the character telling the story collects bottle tops. This suggests he puts a lot of effort in to it and isn't bored of collecting them yet.