Hugo/Modern Times Paper Intro

In Hugo, the eponymous main character must grow as a person after his father's death, in a world in which death overhangs Paris as much as the heavy, dark winter's clouds. In his train station world, Hugo searches for answers deeper than he suspects- answers about moving on and finding fun again. As the son of a watchmaker, Hugo uses machines as both physical and metaphorical tools to find the answers he seeks, asserting that like machines, all people must have a purpose, because they wouldn't otherwise exist. Paris might be coated in shades of brown and grey, but for Hugo life doesn't have to be that way.