Hugo, an orphan, works on clocks in a train station. But when he finds a strange machine, he jeopardizes his undercover life for its safety. Passage #1: “Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free.” (Selznick, 494) I chose this passage because, when he said “Prometheus was rescued in the end” it kind of reminded me of Hugo was rescued from the police station. Then it REALLY reminded me of Hugo when it said “His chains were broken and he was finally set free” because he was freed from being a thief. This passage also reminded me of when in the book, Hugo was amazed looking at the painting of Prometheus, and discovering that Georges Melies (a character in the book, also Hugo’s friend) painted that painting. The funny part, was that Georges said the quote, and freed Hugo from the police. Passage #2: “What is it? Hugo asked. ‘An automaton’ ‘what’s that?’ ‘It’s a windup figure, like a music box or a toy, I’ve seen a few before, a singing bird in a cage and a …show more content…
Now that my cocoon has fallen away and I have emerged as a magician named Professor Alcofrisbas, I can look back to see that I was right. The automaton my father discovered did save me. But now I have built a new automaton. I spent countless hours designing it. I made every gear myself, carefully cut every brass disk, and fashioned every last bit of machinery with my own hands. When you wind it up, it can do something I’m sure no other in the world can do. It can tell you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one hundred and fifty-eight pictures, and it can write, letter by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words. These words” (Selznick,