What are some symbols in the invention of Hugo cabret?

Answer 1

The story begins in Paris, France, in 1931, and an overview of the city during dawn is shown to readers. A picture pages after the beginning focuses in on the outside of the train station, and on the inside the reader sees a young, dirty boy in the middle of a crowd. As the reader flips the pages, they find the boy, Hugo, running across the train station for reasons unknown. Soon, however, Hugo crawls into a vent, hidden from the crowd, and we are introduced to an old man, who runs a toy stand. Hugo spies at the old man through openings in a clock from the inside of the vents. He sees the old man and a girl familiar to Hugo around his age arguing. When the old man is distracted, Hugo comes out of the vent and attempts to steal from the old man's stand. It is to no avail, however, as he is caught and gripped ahold of. The toy stand owner calls for the Station Inspector, whom Hugo panics at the mention of, to arrest the young boy. He orders Hugo to empty his pockets, which he does, pulling out toys and toy parts that belong to the stand. Hugo eventually pulls out a small, battered cardboard notebook, and the man flips the pages. Here, we see pictures of what looks to be a mechanical man writing on a piece of paper on a table. At first the old man is astonished to see such pictures, and then his anger builds up when he asks Hugo about this book. When Hugo refuses answers and to leave without his notebook, the old man threatens to burn the book. Hugo runs off in sadness down the station halls that he does not have his notebook.

Following Hugo entering the vent again, he goes down the series of tunnels which leads to a cluster of secret apartments, which are all abandoned except for the one in use, his. In his room, he grabs matches and candles and sets off to his job as the one in the train station who keeps the clocks running, oiling the machinery and making sure the gears and levers moved accurately. Apparently, as it says at the end of the second chapter, page number 80 - "... Hugo kept going, until all twenty-seven clocks in the station had been attended to, just the way his uncle has taught him." - his uncle had assigned Hugo as his apprentice in keeping the clocks going.

After work, Hugo approached the old man's toy booth as he was closing up shop. The old man, irritated at Hugo's presence, asks him his name, which he hesitantly answers. After Hugo demands his notebook back, the old man tells him that he is going to, in fact, burn it. When the old man leaves the station, Hugo follows his footsteps, and they eventually arrive at his apartment building. He slams the door on Hugo, leaving him out in the cold, winter night. Hugo throws a stone at one of the windows, only to be answered to by the revealing of the girl he saw at the toy booth earlier looking out the window back at him. When she runs down to meet Hugo, he tells her that her grandfather stole his notebook. The girl explains to him that the old man, Papa Georges, wasn't a grandfather and not a thief. Hugo orders her to let him inside, which the girl refuses, but Hugo tells her that he won't go without his notebook, which he won't tell the girl about. Even though she doesn't let Hugo in the building, she does tell him that Papa Georges won't burn his notebook and that he should go back to the toy booth the following day and ask him for the notebook again. Realizing he had no choice, Hugo agreed and ran off.

The old man later gives Hugo a choice: Hugo can work at the toy booth to repay the old man for the stolen items, but the old man may or may not give the notebook back. Hugo ends up working at the toy booth and notices the old man playing cards. But, the old man is not just playing cards; he is doing magical things with them, like making one float! Hugo becomes fascinated with it and goes to the station's bookstore that Isabelle, the girl from Papa Georges home, is always in. Here, he sees Isabelle's friend, Etienne. Hugo plans to just take a magic book that he finds, but Etienne stops him and asks what he has. Hugo tells him, and Etienne gives him money to buy the book. Hugo starts learning the tricks within the book, and becomes an expert at them. At the same time, he is slowly repairing the mechanical man without his notebook.

Once Hugo has it completely finished, he just needs a heart-shaped key, which is exactly what Isabelle wears around her neck. The old man gets very angry at Hugo one day when Isabelle is at the booth, too. He gives Isabelle a hug and runs off to his room in the station, but at the same time, escapes with the key from Isabelle's necklace. Isabelle realizes what he has done, and follows him home. They get into a quarrel, and Isabelle ends up inserting the key into the mechanical man. The man produces a picture of a moon with a face and a rocket going into it's eye. The picture was exactly what Hugo's late father had described to him as his favorite movie. The mechanical man then signs the picture as Papa Georges! Isabelle and Hugo are completely baffled, and run home to his apartment.

Isabelle doesn't want Hugo there, so she slams his fingers in the door. He screams, and Mama Jeanne, Papa Georges's wife, hears. So, Isabelle has no choice but to let Hugo come up with her. Mama Jeanne immediately recognizes him as the thief who stole from Georges booth. Jeanne tells them that Papa Georges is coming home very soon, and she doesn't want him to know that Hugo is there, so she tells them to go into the bedroom. Once she is in there with them, Hugo wants to show her the picture, but Isabelle does not. Hugo ends up showing Mama Jeanne, and she is petrified by it. Isabelle and Hugo both catch her glancing at the wardrobe in the bedroom, and then Mama Jeanne leaves the room. As soon as she does, they try to break into it to see if there is a clue about the picture. Hugo spots a place in the wardrobe that doesn't look the same, so Isabelle stands on a chair to bust it open. She succeeds, and inside finds a box. She grasps the box, but on her way down falls and hurts her foot. The box falls open and hundreds of papers fly out, each one with a beautiful drawing on it. They are all by Papa Georges. Mama Jeanne hears, but by this time Papa Georges is home, so they both come bursting in...

Mama Jeanne is once again petrified by the drawings, and very upset with the children, and Papa Georges has a nervous breakdown. He starts crying and mumbling nonsense. Mama Jeanne feels terrible, so lays him down in bed until he is asleep. The doctor comes later on and says Papa Georges has a fever and is very sick. Mama Jeanne refuses to tell the children about the drawings. So, Hugo leaves and returns to the train station. Hugo decides to go to the bookstore to find out more about the movie with the man in the moon (the one his dad described to him and the mechanical man drew). He finds nothing there, though. So, he leaves and goes down to the Paris Film Academy to use their library. The secretary won't let him in, though, because of how grubby he is. But, Hugo is once again helped out by Etienne, who gets him in and helps him find the book he is looking for. Hugo discovers that Papa Georges was an incredibly famous movie-maker who made the movie with the man in the moon. But, the book says that Papa Georges died in the war. Etienne tells Hugo that his teacher wrote the book only a year ago. Hugo lets Isabelle know after he finds out, and also lets her know that he has arranged a meeting with Etienne and his teacher to come and see if Isabelle's home is truly the home of Papa Georges.

While Hugo is stealing some milk from a shop in the station, he overhears two people saying that his uncle, who never returned after a night out, was pronounced dead. His body was found at the bottom of a river, and was only identified by his name on the bottom of a liquor flask. Hugo accidentally drops his bottle of milk, and the shopkeeper catches him in the act. He runs off, making a narrow escape. He then goes off to the meeting at Isabelle's house, where Etienne's teacher has brought the movie with the man in the moon along with a projector. Hugo and Isabelle beg Mama Jeanne to let them watch it, even though it might disturb Papa Georges's sleep. Mama Jeanne finally agrees, and Hugo is awed by the movie. But, Papa Georges does hear the movie, and comes out. Mama Jeanne is terrified that he will have another breakdown, but he realizes how good his movies and drawings were, and locks himself in his room, leaving them wondering what he was doing. They heard all kinds of clunking noises and such, with periods of quiet in between. They got incredibly scared at what he was doing in there, so they figured out how to open the locked door. They go inside to find all the dr

Answer 2

(This book was set decades ago I think) It is the story of Hugo, a poor boy who lives with his alcoholic uncle after his clockmaker father died. The uncle winds the clocks in a train station in France (I forgot what it was called--it was a big one) but one day he never comes back, meaning he probably died too. Hugo becomes obsessed with this robot-like mannaquin, which his father used to work on a lot. If all the pieces were put together correctly, the machine would write a message. That's pretty much the plot. It goes on from there because other characters are introduced, and there's a big thing that's important dealing with movies.

Answer 3

The Theme of Hugo Cabret is discovering your self and helping others discover them selves as well.

I would als so its is a dont judge a book by it's cover sort of situation. although Hugo Cabret is a thief he also helps his friends and his community.

this is a great book and i strongly recomend it to anyone! ENJOY!

Answer 4

Read the following: In 1931, Hugo Cabret, a 12-year-old boy, lives with his widowed father, a master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father takes him to see films and particularly loves the films of Georges Méliès. Hugo's father dies in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle, an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station Gare Montparnasse. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks and then disappears. He is later discovered to have drowned. Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton, a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. Convinced the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes to desperate lengths to fix it. He steals mechanical parts to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a toy store owner, Georges Méliès, who takes Hugo's notebook from him, with notes and drawings for fixing the automaton. To recover the notebook, Hugo follows Méliès to his house and meets Isabelle, an orphan close to his age and Georges' goddaughter. She promises to help. The next day, Méliès gives some ashes to Hugo, referring to them as the notebook's remains, but Isabelle informs him that the notebook was not burned. Finally Méliès agrees that Hugo may earn the notebook back by working for him until he pays for all the things he stole from the shop. Hugo works in the toy shop, and in his time off manages to fix the automaton, but it is still missing one part-a heart-shaped key. Hugo introduces Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather has never let her see, while she introduces Hugo to a bookstore whose owner initially mistrusts Hugo. Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton. When they use the key to activate the automaton, it produces a drawing of a film scene. Hugo remembers it is the film his father always talked about as the first film he ever saw (Voyage to the Moon). They discover that the drawing made by the automaton is signed with the name of Isabelle's godfather and take it to her home for an explanation. Hugo shows Georges' wife Jeanne the drawing made by the automaton, but she will not tell them anything and makes them hide in a room when Georges comes home. While hiding, Isabelle and Hugo find a secret cabinet and accidentally release pictures and screen boards of Georges' creations just as Georges and Jeanne enter the room. Georges is deeply upset and throws Hugo out, feeling betrayed. Hugo and Isabelle find a book on the history of film and are surprised that the author, Rene Tabard, refers to Méliès as having died in World War I. Tabard himself appears, and the children tell him that Méliès is alive. Tabard, a devotee of Méliès' films, owns a copy of Voyage to the Moon. Then Hugo convinces Tabard to go to Georges' home. That night Hugo dreams of being run over by a train when trying to retrieve the heart key from the rails, a sequence that ends in a re-creation of the Montparnasse train accident. When he wakes up, he hears a loud ticking sound and discovers it is coming from his own chest, at which point he suddenly turns into the same form and shape as the automaton, but then awakens for good. Hugo, Isabelle and Tabard go to Georges' home, and at first Jeanne tells them to go before her husband wakes. However, Jeanne accepts their offer to show Voyage to the Moon when Tabard compliments her as one of the actresses in Georges' films. As they finish watching the film, Georges appears and explains how he came to make movies, invented the special effects, and how he lost faith in films when World War I began, being forced to sell his films to get money, and opening the toy shop to survive. He also believes the automaton he created was lost in the museum fire and nothing remains of his life's work. Hugo goes back to the station to get the automaton, to surprise Georges, but he is cornered by the station inspector and his dog. Hugo escapes and runs to the top of the clock tower and hides by climbing out onto the hands of the clock. Once the inspector is gone, he runs for the exit with the automaton, but he is trapped by the inspector and the automaton is thrown onto the railway tracks. Climbing onto the tracks, Hugo is almost run over by an approaching train when the officer saves him and detains him as an orphan without a guardian. While Hugo pleads with the officer, Georges arrives and says Hugo is in his care. The officer lets him go. At the end of the movie, Georges gets a tribute ceremony to his movies with Tabard announcing that over 80 films have been recovered and restored. Georges thanks Hugo for his actions and invites the audience to "follow his dreams".

Answer 5

The answer is that the theme is that Hugo learns to never give up on his dreams, and that anything is possible.

Answer 6

the characters in the story the invention of Hugo cabaret are Hugo, Isabelle And the toy shop owner (Isabelle's godfather)

Answer 7

the answer is that the automata made a picture by george meleis and it was not a letter from his father

Answer 8

When Hugo gets chased by the police in the train station.

Answer 9

automaton, clocks