The Invention of Hugo Cabret Part 2, Chapter 12 Summary

Winding It Up

• Text
• The narrator says that he is Professor Alcofrisbas—so it must have been Hugo telling us the story this whole time.
• He says that the automaton his father discovered did save him, but now he has built a new one—and it's one that can tell his story.
• The automaton wrote this book and produced 158 pictures, and wrote letter-by-letter 26,159 words. Wow! That’s quite the machine.
• Illustration
• A large, glowing full moon.
• The black border gets thicker and the moon appears smaller.
• And smaller…
• And smaller yet…
• Until it’s just a small square image of a sliver of moon in the middle of a black page.
• And on the next page are the words “THE END.”
• That about says it all, don't you think?