It is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It means to deeply involve or engage the reader in a particular topic or story. Example: "The gripping plot of the novel immediately plunges the reader into a world of mystery and suspense."
Needing no such cheap tricks to plunge the reader into Shelley's overheated world, Spark treats her life and work separately.
As Steven Spielberg found in Saving Private Ryan, if you start in the thick of it and plunge the reader straight into the action, you grab his attention but you also set yourself problems with character and back story.
The prioritising of story over voice suggests that it's not the aim of Maya's Notebook to plunge the reader into the grim existence of a real-life Maya; this is a tale of revelations and resolutions, and the plot is more answerable to its own turns than to the brutal possibilities of reality.
As a consequence of her own leadership, and her window on Rudd's, she can plunge the reader into government at a deeper level than most other protagonists of this historical period; and the memoir strives to not only recount first-hand experiences, but also analyse.
Plunge the reader directly into what's happening now.
By choosing the more conversational "so," Mr. Heaney called for attention and plunged the reader into the middle of the story.
"We shot dogs" plunges the reader into a world that is urgent, intimate, informative – and it teaches us to how to read the rest of the collection.
But it's still a misstep, plunging the reader out of the suspension of disbelief and making a previously very natural narrative seem contrived.
With Zola-esque diligence, Ali plunges the reader into the workings of a professional kitchen and the arcana of the weaver's trade.
From the opening spread, the author plunges the reader into the imaginary world of Kelly and her little brother, Franklin, who play-act the Nativity story on a snowy late afternoon outdoors.
"For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love," begins his love poem "The Canonization," plunging the reader into the midst of an encounter between the speaker and an unidentified listener.
