Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Hugo Cabret

pages: 503
pages read: 503
Author: Brian Selznick
Genre: Mysterie/ historic fiction

This story talks about a boy Hugo Cabret. His whole family has always been watch makers. When he was 8 his dad dies in a fire, Hugo is taken by his drunk uncle and is taught how to take care of the clocks in the train station. One evening his uncle doesn't come home. Hugo now decides to make everyone beleive that his uncle is still alive as he takes care of the clocks and still food to live. A few years later, Hugo meets an old man, he holds a toy booth in the train station, and his god daughter,    , hugo and..... form a great friendship where they discover a great liasion between her pendant and his mysterious automathon that hugo has spent his whole life repairing, thinking that when he have repaired it he would receive a message from his father" He had grown to love it. He felt reponsible for it." p 138. .Maybe this "message" will be the key to a new life.....

2 comments:

  1. Nicely written, is it a mystery i would like to read it

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  2. gosh, I am reading this book, did I really have to read this blogpost? :P

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