The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Pages: 526

The main character in my book is Hugo Cabret. He is a young French boy who lives in a clock in a station. That is his job. He works the clock everyday to make sure everything is at the correct position. He loves working the clocks. But it reminds him a lot of his father, who died in a fire. It makes him feel sad. When he finds the old machine, he feels like he has to fix, it feels like it is the only part of his father that is left. Whenever he gives up on the machine, he hears his father's voice "Fix it. Fix it, Hugo." That is why he never lets it go away from his mind. In order to fix the machine, he has to use his father's old notebook, which had everything. Sadly, the mean storekeeper steals it from him. Hugo knows he has to get it back.  He is afraid the storekeeper might burn it, as he said he would. But there is a person helping him: the storekeeper's granddaughter. She will make sure he will not do it. But is she telling the truth? He doesn't think so when the following happened " But as soon as he took the handkerchief, he understood what he had been given. His breath caught in his throat, and tears began to form in his eyes as he undid the knot. Hugo touched the ashes and then let them fall to the floor with handkerchief. He staggered backward. All of his plans, all of his dreams, disappeared in that scattered pile of ash." which is located on page 137-138. Hugo knew he had no person to help him. His glimpse of hope vanished. He thought he could trust the girl. He was very depressed and knew he could never fix the machine. He could never unlock the secret message the machine would write. He wanted to cry as hard as he could. He wanted his father to be there.