Hugo: Week of 11/2/14

Pages Read: Finished
Prompt: Summary & How do pictures affect the book?

As you can tell, I finished "Hugo" in just one week. It is an easy book to read, but I still feel like it's for my age group. Hugo has many pictures in it, which play an important part of the story. The pictures really showed the story in an unique way. There were doodles and pictures taken by a camera, both adding much detail to the story. This picture to the right might have played the most to the story. It was Hugo's father's first movie he saw. Doesn't sound like much, but to Hugo, it was the world. Hugo's father had died in a fire and this picture is one of the things that remind him of it. The picture below, is the second thin that Hugo uses to keep memories of his father. The automaton was something that Hugo's father had found and was rebuilding, with some help from Hugo himself. These pictures show the reader (along with words) why they are important to Hugo. They also allow the reader to read the book knowing how these two things look. This helps the reader because there are many references, especially the top one, throughout the book.

**My favorite part was the ending so I'm going to skip the beginning of the story and go to the end.**

Hugo and Isabelle had finally got Isabelle's godparents to be okay with bringing up the past, after a series of unfortunate events. Hugo was running to get the automaton from his room in the train station. Since he had a broken hand he wasn't sure how he was going to mange, but he'll think of a way. He was relieved when he heard a knock on the door thinking it was Isabelle to help, but to his demise it was the station inspector. Hugo tried to run, but couldn't escape the tight grasp of the man. As soon as he loosened his grip, Hugo made a run for it.

Hugo ran as fast as he could to get out of the walls. He dashed through the crowd to get out, but soon he lose his sense of direction. All he could tell was where the station inspector was. To him, that's all he needed to know, until he fell. He didn't just trip, no, it's way worse, he had fallen onto the train tracks! Hugo looked up in confusion to see a train hurdling towards him. Hugo was panicking not sure want to do, when he was saved. He was grabbed a spilt second before the train would have hit him. He was relieved for a moment, until he heard the station inspector's voice.