The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick: An Analysis
Professor Medeiros
LIT 255
Ashley Hoye
09/07/2014
The Magician
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick. This is about a boy name Hugo lives in an old abandoned apartment in Paris. The building was where people used to live in who ran the train station, but his was the only one left. Hugo’s farther owned a clock shop as well worked part time at the museum working on them. He came home late one night from work and told Hugo he found something fascinating in the attic of the museum. His father told him it was an automaton. Hugo was very interested to see what this windup figure that can write but it didn’t work. After a few night his farther snuck him into the attic so he could see this. Hugo was so amazed by this that he wanted to fix it so he could see what it would write out. During the meantime while is farther was working he was always filling several notebooks with drawings of the automaton which were very detailed and it showed all the parts as he would carefully clean every single one. For Hugo’s birthday his farther gave him one of the notebooks as a present. That was the last time Hugo saw his farther. While he was working one night he got locked in the attic at the museum and for some reason a fire was started. From there Hugo’s Uncle Claude who was always drunk and had a flask in his hand came by the apartment to tell Hugo that he was coming with him. Uncle Claude told Hugo that he was going to show him how to take care of clocks and he was going to be his apprentice timekeeper. Hugo was able to go back to the museum after most of it was burned down but he had to get the automaton because it was the only thing left of his father. While Hugo was winding up one of clocks on the train station he notices an old man across the way who runs a toy booth. Hugo notices that the old man was distracted so he ran across so he could steal some pieces but Hugo got caught. The old man tells Hugo to pull everything out of his pockets which
LIT 255
Ashley Hoye
09/07/2014
The Magician
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick. This is about a boy name Hugo lives in an old abandoned apartment in Paris. The building was where people used to live in who ran the train station, but his was the only one left. Hugo’s farther owned a clock shop as well worked part time at the museum working on them. He came home late one night from work and told Hugo he found something fascinating in the attic of the museum. His father told him it was an automaton. Hugo was very interested to see what this windup figure that can write but it didn’t work. After a few night his farther snuck him into the attic so he could see this. Hugo was so amazed by this that he wanted to fix it so he could see what it would write out. During the meantime while is farther was working he was always filling several notebooks with drawings of the automaton which were very detailed and it showed all the parts as he would carefully clean every single one. For Hugo’s birthday his farther gave him one of the notebooks as a present. That was the last time Hugo saw his farther. While he was working one night he got locked in the attic at the museum and for some reason a fire was started. From there Hugo’s Uncle Claude who was always drunk and had a flask in his hand came by the apartment to tell Hugo that he was coming with him. Uncle Claude told Hugo that he was going to show him how to take care of clocks and he was going to be his apprentice timekeeper. Hugo was able to go back to the museum after most of it was burned down but he had to get the automaton because it was the only thing left of his father. While Hugo was winding up one of clocks on the train station he notices an old man across the way who runs a toy booth. Hugo notices that the old man was distracted so he ran across so he could steal some pieces but Hugo got caught. The old man tells Hugo to pull everything out of his pockets which