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 …

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