Hugo Cabret Essay

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“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
Imagine you are Hugo Cabret, you have lost your father, live inside the walls of a train station, always being cautious when suddenly everything changes. Hugo Cabret is an interesting book with many plots, and twists. In this book the idea of mystery and secrets is explored.
Hugo has many secrets piecing the story into a curious mystery. Hugo had serious secrets, for example where he lived, the automaton, until Isabelle came along and found out everything about Hugo.
The pictures in the book are shaded black and white, filled with a heavily detailed focus on the character’s

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