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Claude is Hugo’s uncle. He is a mean drunk who takes Hugo in after the death of his father. Claude disappears one day and does not come back. At the end of the story, Hugo learns he drowned in the river, probably because he was drunk. Before his death, Claude maintained the clocks at the train station and taught Hugo how to do the same.
Claude Quotes in The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The The Invention of Hugo Cabret quotes below are all either spoken by Claude or refer to Claude. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 5: Hugo’s Father
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And so Hugo began working all day in the dark on clocks. He had often imagined that his own head was filled with cogs and gears like a machine, and he felt a connection with whatever machinery he touched. He loved learning how the clocks in the station worked, and there as a kind of satisfaction in knowing how to climb through the walls and secretly repair the clocks without anyone seeing him.
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Dogs barked in the distance, and the rumblings of the street cleaners pierced the quiet of the night. Where was Hugo supposed to go? What was he supposed to do? He had no one. Even the automaton was dead.
Part 2, Chapter 9: The Ghost in the Station
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“Remember the drunken old Timekeeper of the station?” continued Madame Emile. “It was him! Dead for years!”
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Claude Quotes in The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The The Invention of Hugo Cabret quotes below are all either spoken by Claude or refer to Claude. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 5: Hugo’s Father
Quotes
And so Hugo began working all day in the dark on clocks. He had often imagined that his own head was filled with cogs and gears like a machine, and he felt a connection with whatever machinery he touched. He loved learning how the clocks in the station worked, and there as a kind of satisfaction in knowing how to climb through the walls and secretly repair the clocks without anyone seeing him.
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Dogs barked in the distance, and the rumblings of the street cleaners pierced the quiet of the night. Where was Hugo supposed to go? What was he supposed to do? He had no one. Even the automaton was dead.
Part 2, Chapter 9: The Ghost in the Station
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“Remember the drunken old Timekeeper of the station?” continued Madame Emile. “It was him! Dead for years!”
