1. Presenter: Rhea Shinde

2. 1931, Paris: A story about
an automaton, a magician
and a dream….
Hugo Cabret, 12 year old
Orphan, clock-keeper and leads a lonely life in a clock
tower
He finds an automaton
He believes it is his fathers
and the automaton will
deliver a message from his
With her, he makes a father
terrific discovery!
Using his father’s
diagrams, he is fixing it by
stealing toy parts from a
toy stall
He befriends the toy-makers
daughter and …
The toy-maker catches him
one day, finds the diagrams
and takes it away

3. Pop quiz: Living a
lonely life in a tower …

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. My favorite part of the book …

8. Thank You