How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph) and (I.Part.Chapter.Image)
Quote #7
He helped Hugo stand. The children were enveloped by the soft folds of the old man’s cape, and together they all headed home. (2.10.27)
When Hugo is most in need of an adult family member in his life, Papa Georges (in true magician form) swoops in and snatches him away from the grubby Station Inspector’s fingers. He takes him home. And a single tear falls from Shmoop's eye.
Quote #8
The French Film Academy, through the intervention of Rene Tabard, arranged for money to be given to the Méliès family, and some of that money went into furnishing Hugo’s room. (2.11.2)
In the end, Hugo does get a nice family and a comfortable, normal kid kind of life. He goes to school, has friends, and best of all has a home to come back to (that’s not an apartment in the train station).