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Hugo Cabret, an orphan who lives in a Paris train station and fixes clocks is the same person as... | Professor H. Alcofrisbas, a magician, is the grown-up writer of the story is the same person as... |
Uncle Claude | Hugo's uncle who takes him in and teaches him how to keep the station's clocks running, teaches him to steal, is cruel, he disappears and at the end is found dead at the bottom of a river with a flask |
Georges Meilies | toymaker who runs shop in the station, turns out to be a famous filmaker, he built the automaton |
Isabelle | toymaker's godaughter, was the daughter of one of his cameramen, Hugo's friend |
Etienne | friend of Isabelle, student at the film academy, works at movie theater, has only one eye |
Monsieur Labisse | owner of the bookstore |
Mama Jeanne | Isabelle's godmother and Georges Meilies' wife |
Lumiere brothers | invented movies |
Rene Tabard | professor at the French Film Academy |
automaton | although the book was written by a human, it was printed and illustrated by a mechanical man called an... |
Hugo's father was | the clockmaker who dies in a museum fire is.. |
clockmakers | horologists |
some magicians started off as... | some clockmakers become... |
Hugo steals this with a hug | Hugo steals a key with what? |
heart shaped hole outlined in silver was where? | what was in the back of the automaton? |
In what other book bowl book does the main character suffer a broken hand? | Like Hugo, James in Masterpiece also suffers a... |
Hugo's notebook is taken by... | Georges Melies (the toymaker) takes Hugo's... |
Antoine and Louis | Hugo's friends from school that he misses |
the old drawings by a famous movie director are found where? | what is found in the armoire? |
setting of book | Paris, France in the winter of 1931 |
blue wind-up mouse | Hugo fixes this for Georges Meilies (toymaker) |
an old guard | who accidently locked Hugo's father in the museum attic? |
clicking heals | this sound irritates George Melies |
Hugo rubbed these for luck after his notebook was taken | buttons |
why does Hugo have to steal food and search for coins? | Hugo does not know how to cash his uncle's paychecks, so he has to... |
why is Hugo stealing toys from the toymaker? | to fix the automaton his father was working on when he died, what crime does Hugo commit? |
the cage of a small jail cell is located where? | In the station inspector's office is a what? |
how many clocks in the train station? | 27 |
who drew the pictures of the automaton in the notebook? | Hugo's father drew... |
what does Hugo have to do to get his notebook back? | If Hugo will work for the toymaker to pay him back for the items he stole he will get this back. |
a coin | what does Etienne pull out from under his eye patch? |
Practical Manual of Card Magic and Illusions | book Etienne gives Hugo coin to buy |
what the automaton draws | what draws a moon face with a rocket in its eye, a scene from Hugo's dad's favorite movie |
what the automaton signs | what signs the moon picture Georges Melies? |
Monsieur Labisse | own the book store at the station |
how did Etienne lose his eye | playing with fireworks caused this character to lose his eye |
A Trip to the Moon | Hugo's father's favorite movie, Georges Meiles most famous film |
Prometheus | in Greek mythology, creator of mankind, a thief |
a broken machine | makes Hugo sad, since it can't do what is meant to do |
how many automatons are in this book? | 2, the one built by Georges Melies that Hugo's father was fixing and the 2nd built by Hugo/Professor Alcofrisbas as an adult magician. The 2nd automaton printed and illustrated this book. |
author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick |