Comparing what all these books have in common:
Hugo Cabret and Missing May: there family,
Hugo Cabret lost his dad in a fire, and Aunt May died from Age.
Missing May and American Born Chinese:
Summer likes Cletus Underwood, and Danny likes Amelia.
American Born Chinese and Hugo Cabret: both made a lot of
friends.
Hugo Cabret and Missing May: Both are very
sad stories.
Missing May and Hugo Cabret: Uncle Ob and Hugo's Uncle
are both alcoholics.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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Hugo Cabret:
The book’s primary inspiration is the true story of turn-of-the-century pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, his surviving films, and his collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automaton. Selznick decided to add automatons to the storyline after reading Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood, which tells the story of Edison who wanted to create a talking wind up doll. Méliès actually had a set of automaton, which were either sold or lost. At the end of his life Méliès was broke, even as films were screening widely in the US. He did work in a toy booth in a Paris railway station, hence the setting. Selznick drew Méliès's real door in the book. It is reported that Méliès did sell some of his films to a company where they were ultimately use to make heels for shoes.
Missing May:
The novel is set in present-day West Virginia. The protagonist is Summer, an orphaned child who has been passed from one apathetic relative to another. At age six, she meets her Aunt May and Uncle Ob. The kindly old couple notices that, although Summer is not mistreated, she is virtually ignored by her caretakers and decide to take Summer home to their rickety trailer home in the hills of the Appalachian mountains. Summer thrives under their care, feeling that she finally has a home.
Six years after Summer moves in, Aunt May dies suddenly in the garden. Summer must cope with her own grief while worrying about Uncle Ob, who is overwhelmed by the thought of living without his beloved wife. Uncle Ob decides to try contacting May's spirit, after he experiences the sensation that she has tried to communicate with him. He is assisted in this endeavor by Cletus Underwood, a classmate of Summer's. Summer views his ideas with some skepticism, but is willing to try anything that might alleviate her uncle's sorrow. She started out not liking Cletus but comes to like him in the end, feeling a sense of safety when he is around.
American Born Chinese:
The first tale is about the Monkey King who goes to a celestial dinner party, but is denied entrance because he is a monkey and does not wear shoes.
The second story then begins with a Chinese American boy, Jin Wang, who has moved to a new home. An old woman tells him he can be anything he wants, if he is willing to forfeit his soul. Jin told her he wanted to be a Transformer. When he goes to school, the teacher mispronounces his name, boys pick on him, and rumors arise that he is betrothed to a Japanese girl named Suzy Nakamura. Two months later, a new student from Taiwan arrives, named Wei Chen. At first Jin wants to beat him up, but later the two become friends, bonding over Wei Chen's Transformer toy.
The third story is about an American boy named Danny, and his Chinese cousin, Chin-Kee. Danny is having a study date with a friend, Melanie. When he is about to ask her out, his parents announce that his cousin, Chin-Kee, has come for his annual visit. Chin-Kee insults Melanie, and causes her to leave in a huff.
The first tale about the Monkey King then resumes. He has decreed that all his subjects wear shoes, then locks himself in his chamber to learn the twelve disciplines of kung fu, when he is summoned to the underwater kingdom to be executed. He goes around causing havoc, until Tze-Yo-Tzuh ("He who is"), his creator, stops him. As a result, the Monkey King flees, carving his name into five pillars of gold at the end of his trip, as well as relieving himself on one of the pillars. Afterward, he again meets his creator, who shows him his fingers, which were in reality the five pillars of gold. Tze-Yo-Tzuh then buries the Monkey King in a mountain of rubble. (This is a famous Chinese historical tale.)
The second tale resumes at this point. In the 7th grade, Jin begins to notice a classmate of his, Amelia Harris, and develops a crush on her. Later on, Wei Chen and Suzy start to date. One day, Wei Chen and Amelia get trapped in a supply closet and Jin comes to their rescue, asking Amelia out, who eagerly accepts.
The third tale resumes. Chin-Kee answers every question the teachers ask, pees in Danny's friend's drink, and even brings a dead cat in his food for lunch.
The first tale resumes yet again. After many years, the Monkey King is asked by an unworthy monk to release himself from the mountain he is buried under so he can be the monk's disciple. At first, he rejects, but when the monk is injured by two giant monsters, he returns to his true form, and uses his disciplines to get rid of the giants. He takes the monk to the nearest village, and then begins his journey to the west.
The second tale now follows Jin taking Amelia to the movies. About to put his arm around her, Jin had a smelly armpit, so he covers up the scent with soap, thanks to advice from a friend. However, after the movie, the soap bubbles got onto Amelia's shoulder, but then dried off. The next day, Jin is asked by Greg not to date her again. He ignores him, but later on, as Jin attempts to date Amelia again, Greg seemed to be nearby. With no other choice left, Jin turns to Suzy, who had an urge to kiss her, but she punched him in the cheek. Wei Chen does the same later after Jin told him not to be an FOB. That night, he dreamed of the herbalist's wife, and woke up with his head hurting, thus revealing himself to be Danny, in the third tale.
The third tale now resumes, and Jin (now Danny) fights with Chin-Kee after harassing with the students. Danny punches his head, and it flew off, revealing Chin-Kee to be the monkey king in disguise.
The Monkey king reverts Danny back to Jin, and tells him the Wei Chen is the son of the monkey king. He said he visited him often, but after he was mad about him lying, and therefore, refused his visits. That's why the monkey king came as Chin-Kee, not to punish Jin, but to serve as his conscience. Afterwords, Jin started visiting a bakery from a business card the monkey king left behind, and then saw Wei Chen outside with a car, cigarettes, and everything. Jin went out to tell him that he saw his father (the Monkey king) earlier. To answer why Jin was telling this to Wei Chen, it was that he was trying to apologize to him. He accepts.
The book’s primary inspiration is the true story of turn-of-the-century pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, his surviving films, and his collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automaton. Selznick decided to add automatons to the storyline after reading Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood, which tells the story of Edison who wanted to create a talking wind up doll. Méliès actually had a set of automaton, which were either sold or lost. At the end of his life Méliès was broke, even as films were screening widely in the US. He did work in a toy booth in a Paris railway station, hence the setting. Selznick drew Méliès's real door in the book. It is reported that Méliès did sell some of his films to a company where they were ultimately use to make heels for shoes.
Missing May:
The novel is set in present-day West Virginia. The protagonist is Summer, an orphaned child who has been passed from one apathetic relative to another. At age six, she meets her Aunt May and Uncle Ob. The kindly old couple notices that, although Summer is not mistreated, she is virtually ignored by her caretakers and decide to take Summer home to their rickety trailer home in the hills of the Appalachian mountains. Summer thrives under their care, feeling that she finally has a home.
Six years after Summer moves in, Aunt May dies suddenly in the garden. Summer must cope with her own grief while worrying about Uncle Ob, who is overwhelmed by the thought of living without his beloved wife. Uncle Ob decides to try contacting May's spirit, after he experiences the sensation that she has tried to communicate with him. He is assisted in this endeavor by Cletus Underwood, a classmate of Summer's. Summer views his ideas with some skepticism, but is willing to try anything that might alleviate her uncle's sorrow. She started out not liking Cletus but comes to like him in the end, feeling a sense of safety when he is around.
American Born Chinese:
The first tale is about the Monkey King who goes to a celestial dinner party, but is denied entrance because he is a monkey and does not wear shoes.
The second story then begins with a Chinese American boy, Jin Wang, who has moved to a new home. An old woman tells him he can be anything he wants, if he is willing to forfeit his soul. Jin told her he wanted to be a Transformer. When he goes to school, the teacher mispronounces his name, boys pick on him, and rumors arise that he is betrothed to a Japanese girl named Suzy Nakamura. Two months later, a new student from Taiwan arrives, named Wei Chen. At first Jin wants to beat him up, but later the two become friends, bonding over Wei Chen's Transformer toy.
The third story is about an American boy named Danny, and his Chinese cousin, Chin-Kee. Danny is having a study date with a friend, Melanie. When he is about to ask her out, his parents announce that his cousin, Chin-Kee, has come for his annual visit. Chin-Kee insults Melanie, and causes her to leave in a huff.
The first tale about the Monkey King then resumes. He has decreed that all his subjects wear shoes, then locks himself in his chamber to learn the twelve disciplines of kung fu, when he is summoned to the underwater kingdom to be executed. He goes around causing havoc, until Tze-Yo-Tzuh ("He who is"), his creator, stops him. As a result, the Monkey King flees, carving his name into five pillars of gold at the end of his trip, as well as relieving himself on one of the pillars. Afterward, he again meets his creator, who shows him his fingers, which were in reality the five pillars of gold. Tze-Yo-Tzuh then buries the Monkey King in a mountain of rubble. (This is a famous Chinese historical tale.)
The second tale resumes at this point. In the 7th grade, Jin begins to notice a classmate of his, Amelia Harris, and develops a crush on her. Later on, Wei Chen and Suzy start to date. One day, Wei Chen and Amelia get trapped in a supply closet and Jin comes to their rescue, asking Amelia out, who eagerly accepts.
The third tale resumes. Chin-Kee answers every question the teachers ask, pees in Danny's friend's drink, and even brings a dead cat in his food for lunch.
The first tale resumes yet again. After many years, the Monkey King is asked by an unworthy monk to release himself from the mountain he is buried under so he can be the monk's disciple. At first, he rejects, but when the monk is injured by two giant monsters, he returns to his true form, and uses his disciplines to get rid of the giants. He takes the monk to the nearest village, and then begins his journey to the west.
The second tale now follows Jin taking Amelia to the movies. About to put his arm around her, Jin had a smelly armpit, so he covers up the scent with soap, thanks to advice from a friend. However, after the movie, the soap bubbles got onto Amelia's shoulder, but then dried off. The next day, Jin is asked by Greg not to date her again. He ignores him, but later on, as Jin attempts to date Amelia again, Greg seemed to be nearby. With no other choice left, Jin turns to Suzy, who had an urge to kiss her, but she punched him in the cheek. Wei Chen does the same later after Jin told him not to be an FOB. That night, he dreamed of the herbalist's wife, and woke up with his head hurting, thus revealing himself to be Danny, in the third tale.
The third tale now resumes, and Jin (now Danny) fights with Chin-Kee after harassing with the students. Danny punches his head, and it flew off, revealing Chin-Kee to be the monkey king in disguise.
The Monkey king reverts Danny back to Jin, and tells him the Wei Chen is the son of the monkey king. He said he visited him often, but after he was mad about him lying, and therefore, refused his visits. That's why the monkey king came as Chin-Kee, not to punish Jin, but to serve as his conscience. Afterwords, Jin started visiting a bakery from a business card the monkey king left behind, and then saw Wei Chen outside with a car, cigarettes, and everything. Jin went out to tell him that he saw his father (the Monkey king) earlier. To answer why Jin was telling this to Wei Chen, it was that he was trying to apologize to him. He accepts.
Missing May
Characters of Missing May:
Summer:
Summer was a very jolly girl ever since May died, Summer used to look up to her, remembering all the times they used to play together.
Then Uncle Ob was taking care of Summer when May died. She couldn't stand seeing her die in the garden.
She didn't like Cletus at all, but during the end she felt safe around him.
Uncle Ob:
Uncle Ob missed May more than he missed anyone else in the whole entire world. He just couldn't stand it one bit.
After all his sorrow, he felt that he was communicating with May, that he's in heaven also.
Then Cletus Underwood comes in, he said that he can help Uncle Ob with communicating with May.
Cletus Underwood:
Cletus Underwood is a boy who loves to steal things, he even told Summer he stole a tractor before.
No one knew he was lying or even if he was, he told Uncle Ob that he can help communicate with May's spirit.
he liked Summer a lot, but there was one problem for him, she didn't like him.
Summer:
Summer was a very jolly girl ever since May died, Summer used to look up to her, remembering all the times they used to play together.
Then Uncle Ob was taking care of Summer when May died. She couldn't stand seeing her die in the garden.
She didn't like Cletus at all, but during the end she felt safe around him.
Uncle Ob:
Uncle Ob missed May more than he missed anyone else in the whole entire world. He just couldn't stand it one bit.
After all his sorrow, he felt that he was communicating with May, that he's in heaven also.
Then Cletus Underwood comes in, he said that he can help Uncle Ob with communicating with May.
Cletus Underwood:
Cletus Underwood is a boy who loves to steal things, he even told Summer he stole a tractor before.
No one knew he was lying or even if he was, he told Uncle Ob that he can help communicate with May's spirit.
he liked Summer a lot, but there was one problem for him, she didn't like him.
American Born Chinese
Danny:
Danny is a person who loves transformers, when he lived in San Francisco, he would play with his friends all the time.
But one thing he hates the most,is his cousin Chin-kee. He didn't know how they were related at all. Also, Danny loves this girl, her name is Amelia, and what i mean by love, is marriage, he says i know it's far, but he couldn't help it, he was in love.
His mom and dad, when they came to America, his mom was a librarian and his dad was an engineer, also selling wigs door to door.
Danny's first friend was Peter, there friendship grew quickly. He would always say " Give me yer sandwich and I'll be yer best friend." After he moved from America, so Danny was lonely.
Monkey King:
The monkey king was made fun of at parties, but then he puts a stop to it, then he decided to learn Kung-fu and the 4 heavenly disciples. So when everyone made fun of him, even the kings, they needed some convincing. After they learned that never judge a monkey when it doesn't have shoes on.
The monkey king on the end, ended up being Chin-kee. He just couldn't understand why.
Wei Chen:
Wei Chen was a boy who came to America, and was lonely, but no one every knew that the Monkey King was his father, and that he was a monkey too.
At that point, he saw Danny, Danny didn't like him at start, but when he played with his robot monkey transformer, there were best friends.
Then Wei Chen started dating Suzy Nakamura, and Danny was puzzled. After Wei Chen and Amelia get trapped, Danny finds out so he open's the door, then asks Amelia out.
Danny is a person who loves transformers, when he lived in San Francisco, he would play with his friends all the time.
But one thing he hates the most,is his cousin Chin-kee. He didn't know how they were related at all. Also, Danny loves this girl, her name is Amelia, and what i mean by love, is marriage, he says i know it's far, but he couldn't help it, he was in love.
His mom and dad, when they came to America, his mom was a librarian and his dad was an engineer, also selling wigs door to door.
Danny's first friend was Peter, there friendship grew quickly. He would always say " Give me yer sandwich and I'll be yer best friend." After he moved from America, so Danny was lonely.
Monkey King:
The monkey king was made fun of at parties, but then he puts a stop to it, then he decided to learn Kung-fu and the 4 heavenly disciples. So when everyone made fun of him, even the kings, they needed some convincing. After they learned that never judge a monkey when it doesn't have shoes on.
The monkey king on the end, ended up being Chin-kee. He just couldn't understand why.
Wei Chen:
Wei Chen was a boy who came to America, and was lonely, but no one every knew that the Monkey King was his father, and that he was a monkey too.
At that point, he saw Danny, Danny didn't like him at start, but when he played with his robot monkey transformer, there were best friends.
Then Wei Chen started dating Suzy Nakamura, and Danny was puzzled. After Wei Chen and Amelia get trapped, Danny finds out so he open's the door, then asks Amelia out.
Hugo Cabret
Characters of Hugo Cabret:
Hugo Cabret
Okay, First I'll start with Hugo Cabret. Hugo Cabret is a boy who loves building or
Repairing a lot of clocks, it's the only thing he's good at, he lives at a Train station,
since his dad died in a fire, his uncle took over, but the thing with his uncle is that he taught
him how to steal, because he was an alcoholic of course. His dad left something behind called
an automaton, he was quite sure what it was but he knew it involved fixing, his dad was trying to make
it write, and see what it would draw. Since his Uncle ran away, it's between the Station Inspector and
him.
Isabelle
Now another character of Hugo Cabret, is Isabelle she is a girl that likes picklocking doors, like it's her
specialty. She had the key to making the automaton work, so basically without that the automaton wouldn't
work. She told Hugo that she found it in the fire, so you obviously know that it's Hugo's fathers key. She had a
friend who would always sneak her in a movie theater, but after he got fired, because they found out he was
sneaking kids inside. After Hugo wouldn't tell what his secret was, it was that his fathers automaton would write
a message, and Isabelle wanted to know really badly.
Georges Melies
Georges Melies, or also known as Papa Georges without him in this story, none of this wouldn't been
interesting. Georges Melies is a godfather for Isabelle, and he has a lot of secrets he cannot tell, but that's
when Hugo comes in, sure he might be a stealer but at some choice, even Isabelle wanted to know this.
In this book Georges Melies is a very sneaky person, while Hugo wanted to steal some toys, and saw him.
He took his notebook and said he burned it, but he didn't he wanted to know what it was. He though, already
knew what he was making, he just acted like he didn't. He was a filmmaker, and in the train crash everyone
thought he died, but he didn't. When the automaton drew the picture. The picture had a Firework blast into
the moon's eye. That's what happened to Isabelle since she wears an eye patch. On "Papa Georges" opinion
he called it Ghosts.
Hugo Cabret
Okay, First I'll start with Hugo Cabret. Hugo Cabret is a boy who loves building or
Repairing a lot of clocks, it's the only thing he's good at, he lives at a Train station,
since his dad died in a fire, his uncle took over, but the thing with his uncle is that he taught
him how to steal, because he was an alcoholic of course. His dad left something behind called
an automaton, he was quite sure what it was but he knew it involved fixing, his dad was trying to make
it write, and see what it would draw. Since his Uncle ran away, it's between the Station Inspector and
him.
Isabelle
Now another character of Hugo Cabret, is Isabelle she is a girl that likes picklocking doors, like it's her
specialty. She had the key to making the automaton work, so basically without that the automaton wouldn't
work. She told Hugo that she found it in the fire, so you obviously know that it's Hugo's fathers key. She had a
friend who would always sneak her in a movie theater, but after he got fired, because they found out he was
sneaking kids inside. After Hugo wouldn't tell what his secret was, it was that his fathers automaton would write
a message, and Isabelle wanted to know really badly.
Georges Melies
Georges Melies, or also known as Papa Georges without him in this story, none of this wouldn't been
interesting. Georges Melies is a godfather for Isabelle, and he has a lot of secrets he cannot tell, but that's
when Hugo comes in, sure he might be a stealer but at some choice, even Isabelle wanted to know this.
In this book Georges Melies is a very sneaky person, while Hugo wanted to steal some toys, and saw him.
He took his notebook and said he burned it, but he didn't he wanted to know what it was. He though, already
knew what he was making, he just acted like he didn't. He was a filmmaker, and in the train crash everyone
thought he died, but he didn't. When the automaton drew the picture. The picture had a Firework blast into
the moon's eye. That's what happened to Isabelle since she wears an eye patch. On "Papa Georges" opinion
he called it Ghosts.
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