Hogarth Hughes

Hogarth Hughes is an energeic, young, curious boy with an active imagination, and the main protagonist of the 1999 animated film, The Iron Giant. He is voiced by Eli Marienthal. Hogarth lives with his widowed mother, Annie. He first met the Iron Giant when he was following a trail of destruction in a nearby forest, and teaches the Giant about life and death. He was forced to answer where the robot was by the Villainious Kent Mansley. Hogarth was friends with a beatnik artist, Dean McCoppin, (until Dean becomes Hogarth's new stepfather in the end of the film). In the end Hogarth tells the Giant that the missile will destroy Rockwell, and the Giant began to sacrifice himself.