“The invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick Hugo Cabret is a young boy who admired his father and his father’s job: a clockmaker. But one day his life turned upside down and his “hero” died. The only thing that left over of his father was a broken mechanical boy, an automaton. Now, Hugo wants to fix it and figure out what this automaton will write. The adventure begins at a Paris train station, where Hugo Cabret used to live and work as a clock keeper with his uncle since his father’s death. His life fell apart and Hugo became a self-sufficient and isolated boy, however he still came up with the idea of fixing the broken automaton. One day, when Hugo was going to steal the last gears, he met a hot-headed old man and a curious and bookish