Lindsey's review
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Lindsey's review
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Lindsey's review
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Part one finds Hugo Cabret living in a Paris train station and stealing mechanical toys. He is caught by the owner of the toy stand, who takes from Hugo a notebook that was in his pocket. Hugo is determined to get the notebook back, and finally the shopkeeper agrees to hire him on to work in the store to pay off his debt.
In the meantime we find out that Hugo lives alone in the train station; his father died, his uncle disappeared, and Hugo is left alone to continue maintenance on the train station clocks. Except he hasn’t told anyone his uncle disappeared, because he has no where else to go if they take him away, and he doesn’t know how to cash his uncle’s checks. Therefore he has to steal to get by.
We also find out that Hugo’s notebook is filled with drawings done by his father on how to fix a mechanical man, an automan, that Hugo has stored in his room. He needs his notebook back to finish the automan and get the final message his father left for him. But the ...more
In the meantime we find out that Hugo lives alone in the train station; his father died, his uncle disappeared, and Hugo is left alone to continue maintenance on the train station clocks. Except he hasn’t told anyone his uncle disappeared, because he has no where else to go if they take him away, and he doesn’t know how to cash his uncle’s checks. Therefore he has to steal to get by.
We also find out that Hugo’s notebook is filled with drawings done by his father on how to fix a mechanical man, an automan, that Hugo has stored in his room. He needs his notebook back to finish the automan and get the final message his father left for him. But the ...more
