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
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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,
Into the Wild Summer Reading Assignment Passage: “April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory.
There were many passages and statements from the text that had great meaning and drew a large impact on both the novel and the reader, but there was one that stood out that would give the reader thoughts, answers, and had a great impact on the book throughout the whole story. In the text, Scout states that "Maycomb was an old town, but a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather streets turned to red slop... Somehow it was hotter then...
Connector-The Chrysalids The first connection I can make is a text to world connection. The point I would like to relate is how norms and deviations are separated in the book and that can also occur in real life. It is not to the extreme of banning them from the country like how deviations are in Waknuk, but there are several forms of discrimination in the real world. David describes the discrimination of deviations in Waknuk throughout the whole book.
The Interludes: “Does He Meant That?” (82) “One Story” (185) I agree with Foster’s Ideas although it's a bit confusing to comprehend and imagine a writer take days on writing a paragraph, page or sentence. It makes a bit of sense though because you often see writers publish pieces in a years time or maybe even more. It would make sense as well because the writer or the author has been educated in writing, literature, and etc.
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that.
1. The author wants the reader to have empathy or understand where he’s coming from. The author states “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.” He tries to justify his future crime and wants the readers to understand.
1. Quotes/passages: “the wonderful world that the Old People had lived in; as it had been before God sent Tribulation” Page 1 This excerpt is important to the book and in general because it is where David was thinking of the Old people who are considered today to be us in today’s society. It shows that something happened to them in the past (today) which was a nuclear disaster that took place giving everyone some sort of “superhuman powers’ and eventually everyone died of it. 2.
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in a futuristic time where books are burned and seen as problematic. Instead of reading, the people in this society live in a virtual reality. They wear “seashells” and spend their days with their “family” that live in the screens. “No one has a true understanding of actual happiness or freedom” which causes the main character, Montag, to question the world he lives in (Sisario 2). As he begins questioning the way of life he is used to, the reader gets a new sense of consciousness that was not there before.
The character, Hugo, starts off as an orphaned, clock keeping, boy with his only motive being to find the secrets behind an automaton his father left for him before he died in a fire. As the novel progresses, Hugo finds a mysterious connection between a rough old man and a little girl with the automaton. He slowly befriends the girl and works for the old man in order to find out more about the connection yet slowly starts gaining sympathy for the two which gets in the way of his investigation and confuses his emotions. Hugo loved his father very dearly and is determined that the automaton is hiding something from his father to him. This results in Jake pushing away the love of the old man and girl in order to keep them out of the mystery and to find his father’s hidden message for him.
“Chorus Leader: ‘Did you perhaps go further than you have told us?’ Prometheus: ‘I caused mortals to cease foreseeing death.’ Chorus Leader: ‘What cure did you provide against that sickness?’ Prometheus: ‘I placed in them blind hopes.’” (Prometheus Bound, Line 247)
In the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick the machine known as the automaton is an important symbol in the story for both Hugo and the old man. The automaton fills in missing, broken pieces of both of these characters lives by allowing them to connect to joys in their past. The mechanical man is all that he has left in life. As he is going through the process of fixing and replacing the automaton, he is also through a very touchy and emotional development of his own and the automaton in a sense, fixes Hugo.
“Tell me all about it.” I gripped the phone so hard my hand hurt. “Tell me everything about Prague.” “Oh, Jennie, it’s incredible. So beautiful.
1. With so many bad things going on and the news no being positive, Jews didn’t want to believe any of this in hopes that something good would happen. I know when I heard the news that my grandma had passed away I refused to believe it, in hopes that it wasn’t true. 2. "... our eyes opened, but too late” refers to how people were starting to realize everything Moishe the Beadle was saying was true.
Fahrenheit Book Burner In the book Fahrenheit 451 firemen burn houses instead of putting fires out ,and the author Rad Bradbury includes how technology is “Taking over the Economy”. Firemen are the policemen of the future world ,and some humans have made mistakes by hiding books. The author reveals throughout the novel how montag goes through transformation and how he changes.
Dreams as a Life Sustaining Force in Hugo By Nanda Joylal BA-VII/H-13/2014 Martin Scorsese’ 2011 movie, “Hugo”, traces a young boy’s attempt at deciphering a message he believes is left by his late father and how in the path he encounters a string of people connected by chance. Hugo (Asa Butterfield), left an orphan in an unkind world with only a broken automaton linking him to the past holds on to it with all the tenacity of a desperate child. The uncovering of the automaton’s secret is the dream which propels him forward in his solitary existence without warmth or affection. He works with the singular goal of repairing the machine, and this keeps at bay the fears and insecurities which inevitably take root in a young mind left to fend for