Author's Craft- Literary Devices

             Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick is about a young man named Hugo. He is an orphan and he lives by himself in a train station. Hugo is different from everyone else, he has a unique talent. He can fix clocks and machinery from a huge clock tower clock, to a small wind up mouse. As Hugo grows older he finds out more and more about his dad who passed away and how he was working on an auto-maton( a machine that writes out a message). He figures out how to fix the machine and it draws something, a man in the moon with a fireworks rocket in his eye.

             I think Brian Selznick has a very original and exquisite way of writing, he uses imagery to express words into nice pictures that form in my head. Imagery helps the reader create images out of words, details that appeal to our senses; sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. For example, in one part of the book it said, "His dirty blonde hair covered his dirt smudged forehead and his red tipped ears". This quote gave a description of what the main character, Hugo, looks like. This tells you that Hugo is a hard worker making his shifts around the train station to fix all the clocks. All in all, literary devices enhance the story to make it better and more understandable.