Victor Hugo is an extraordinary writer that uses many rhetorical devices throughout his writings to emerge the readers into the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when he tells of how the Cathedral in France is being redecorated and the gothic theme is being removed to make it seem more romantic. As said in the book the narrator says “What has time done, what have men done with with these marvels? What has has been given to us in exchange for all this for all this, - for all this ancient French history, for all this Gothic art,” (13)? The narrator continues throughout the preface and first chapter to elaborate and compliment the construction of the original building of the Cathedral and how the crowds would constantly spill through the doors
