Download - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Presenter: Rhea Shinde
1931, Paris: A story about an automaton, a magician
and a dream….
Hugo Cabret, 12 year oldOrphan, clock-keeper and leads a lonely life in a clock
tower
He finds an automatonHe believes it is his fathers
and the automaton will deliver a message from his
father
Using his father’s diagrams, he is fixing it by stealing toy
parts from a toy stall
The toy-maker catches him one day, finds the diagrams
and takes it away
He befriends the toy-makers daughter and …
With her, he makes a terrific discovery!
Pop quiz: Living a lonely life in a tower …
I wondered …
• Context:– His uncle was the clock-keeper and his care-taker.
Hugo was his uncle’s apprentice.– One day, his uncle disappeared – He continued to be the clock-keeper without
anybody’s knowledge• My question: Why did Hugo not go to the station
inspector and tell him that his uncle was gone and he was capable of taking care of the clocks.
I think the author wrote this book because …
• He wanted to write about Georges Milies who is one of the central characters in the book (I won’t tell which)
• Georges Milies was a movie-maker and acknowledged that “Movies could show dreams”
• I think the author also believes in this
• We owe our cartoons to him
My opinion …
I picked this book because the back-cover grabbed me
I liked how they had a mixture of story and pictures
But the book is multi-layered and very complicated. There were a lot of connections that it took me a while to make
My favorite part of the book …
Thank You