Hugo helps remind the world, and Georges himself, that Georges was a visionary artist who changed the world of film forever.īy combining incredibly emotive illustrations with his unique story, Brian Selznick has created a new kind of book. As a result of his efforts he ends up giving purpose back to one of the greatest early film makers, Georges Melies. In this extraordinary book readers will meet a boy who is desperately trying to reconnect with his dead father and who is also trying to find some purpose to his life. Will Hugo be able to unravel it before his own secret world comes crashing down around his ears? There is a mystery to be uncovered, one which connects Hugo’s father with the old man, and the automaton lies at the heart of it all. The automaton creates a drawing which Hugo and Isabelle discover is somehow connected to the old man who owns the toyshop. In the end Hugo is able to fix the automaton without the notebook after all, and using a key that Isabelle has hanging around her neck, he is able to get the extraordinary device to work. Hugo is sure that he will never be able to fix the automaton unless he is able to get that precious notebook back. He even asks the girl who lives with the old man, Isabelle, for help. The old man is furious and though he does not call the authorities, he does take away Hugo’s father’s notebook. When we first see Hugo it is just before he gets caught by the owner of the toy store. He used one of his father’s old notebooks to help him, and he stole clockwork toys from a toyshop in the station so that he could take them apart and get the parts that he needed. Hugo now had a purpose – to get the automaton to work again. Before he quite knew what he was doing Hugo took the automaton and carried it back to the little room in which he had been living in the Paris train station. He ended up at the burned out shell of the museum where his father had died, and in the ruins he found the clockwork automaton. When Hugo’s uncle did not come home at all for several days Hugo decided to run away. It was not long before Hugo’s uncle was leaving Hugo alone to do most of the work that needed to be done on a daily basis. It was his job to keep all the clocks in the station running smoothly. His uncle was the timekeeper at the Paris train station. Unfortunately Hugo’s father died in a fire at the museum and Hugo’s uncle took him to live with him. What would he write when his key was turned? Hugo’s father was not sure how the machine worked but he was determined to do his best to get the clockwork man writing again. It had been beautifully made but was now very rusted and in need of repair. In the attic of the museum Hugo’s father found a peculiar clockwork automaton. His father, a clockmaker and clock mender, had a shop of his own and he also did some work for the local museum. Not long ago Hugo was living happily with his father and having a pretty normal sort of existence. Meet Hugo Cabret, a boy who lives behind the walls in the Paris train station.
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