She tries to use the key to turn his clock but he throws away the key, choosing to die from not using the key. Miss Acacia finds Jack in front of Madeleine's grave, shivering in the cold. They also tell Jack that he gave her the joy of being a mother and she worried at the thought of how he will grow up. When he reaches home, he is told what happened to Madeleine. She knows she has only a short time to reach him. She finds out quickly Jack had departed for home in Edinburgh and follows behind him. Miss Acacia eventually realizes she holds the key to Jack's survival and returns to search for him. Rumors said that she died of a broken heart. In the carriage with Miss Acacia and Joe, he tells her that soon after Jack escaped with Madeleine's help, Madeleine was sent to prison. Jack, after being rejected, tears at the screws of his heart. Miss Acacia, after talking with Joe, decides she doesn't want to risk being the cause of death of Jack by allowing him to fall in love. He had been looking for an opportunity to further punish Jack and explains to her the three rules of Jack's cuckoo clock heart in an attempt to sabotage them. Jack eventually finds a way to reveal himself and gives a key to Miss Acacia which can be used to wind his heart.īefore Jack and Miss Acacia could run away together, Joe, the bully from Jack's past, shows up. It turns out that Jack was that person from her past. She hints that her heart belongs to someone from her past. He proceeds to befriend her and foolishly avoids sharing his feelings. Jack finds Miss Acacia but Georges advises him against revealing his identity to her. They proceed to Andalusia, Spain in search of her.Īfter a long journey, they arrive at a circus in Andalusia. Georges helps repair his heart and agrees to join Jack in the search for Miss Acacia. Jack only wants to see Miss Acacia again and eventually meets up with Georges Méliès, a magician attempting to operate an early film camera. Madeleine, believing Jack to be a fugitive, helps him to escape. During an assault from Joe, the cuckoo of Jack's clock heart gouges Joe's eye, and Jack runs home believing he had murdered Joe. Jealous, the older boy and his gang of students torment Jack for the next four years. After starting school shortly afterward, he also meets Joe, a bully who is in love with Miss Acacia as well. He meets a girl in town named Miss Acacia and becomes infatuated with her. On Jack's tenth birthday, Madeleine repeats the three rules before taking him into town for the first time. Madeleine, incapable of bearing children of her own, raises and loves him as her own. Jack's mother, for reasons known only to her, quickly decides her child would be better raised by Madeleine and departs, leaving Jack. She then advises him of three rules to prevent his untimely death: he must never play with the hands of the clock, lose his temper, or fall in love. The attendant midwife Madeleine saves his life by replacing his heart with a fragile but working cuckoo clock. Due to the extreme cold, he is born with a frozen heart that will not beat. In Edinburgh, Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever.
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