Answer:
Who doesn't like playing pranks on people or eating candy?
Explanation:
It is the first sentence in the text, for it the be 'The Hook' it needs to boldly exclaim something.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The answer is a mentor.
The mentor figure is often an older figure that educates or helps the protagonist go on the right path. The damsel is someone the protagonist saves, the witch someone who would want to take him off that path, and a mother figure the one who nurtures the protagonist.
        
             
        
        
        
My cousins care too much about appearances.
        
             
        
        
        
The plot of The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner is there is a cobra in the dinner room, which no one is aware of. So, the American must find a way to keep all of the guests calm and still so that the cobra does not harm/bite any of them, while also trying to lead the cobra away into a bowl of milk outside on the veranda.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Chalmers believed that Paine's arguments are pure fantasy that would be harmful to the colonies, as to him independence is a ridiculous idea. It would open them up to the French and the Spaniards and lose the them the most valuable trading partner which was at the time England.