Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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FACE: The hunchback's face does not have a single pleasant feature. A large wart covers Quasimodo's right eye. His uneven teeth, misshapen nose, and bushy eyebrows make a repulsive sight. LEGS: Quasimodo's crooked legs- ending in clumsy, oversized feet- give him a limping gait.
HANDS: Oversized hands give Quasimodo a solid grip on the bell ropes. BACK: His short torso with a large hump between the shoulder blades is balanced by another hump on the chest.
EARS: The tiny ears do not hear well because Quasimodo has grown deaf from the noise of the cathedral's bells.
Abandoned on the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral, the deformed baby named Quasimodo grows up in the care of archdeacon Frollo. He becomes bell ringer of Notre Dame. The citizens of Paris regard him as a monster. Pregnant women look away, afraid their babies will bear his deformities. Quasimodo kidnaps Esmeralda, a gorgeous gypsy girl. She is rescued by Captain Phoebus and falls in love with him. Quasimodo is put on trial and flogged. Esmeralda pities him and brings him water. Now Frollo falls in love with Esmeralda too. Jealous of Phoebus, Frollo stabs him and flees.
Phoebus survives the stabbing, but Esmeralda is accused of attempting to murder him. She is tried and convicted of the crime. She is on the gallows, seconds away from being hanged, when Quasimodo snatches her from the platform and carries her inside the cathedral. The city leaders vote to remove the gypsy girl from Notre Dame. A group of thieves attack the cathedral to save Esmeralda. Quasimodo thinks they are there to harm her, and flings stones, timber, and molten lead down on top of them.
DID YOU KNOW? Esmeralda escapes from the cathedral but is captured and hanged. Quasimodo blames Frollo for her death and throws the archdeacon off the balcony of Notre Dame.
Quasimodo is voted Pope of Fools in the 1482 Festival of Fools for being the ugliest person in Paris.
The hunchback is named after Quasimodo Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, which is the day he was abandoned at the catheral.
Esmeralda and Quasimodo were switched at birth. A band of gypsies stole Esmeralda from her mother and replaced her with the hideous infant Quasimodo. Quasimodo is abandoned at Notre Dame cathedral and Esmeralda's grieving mother became a recluse. Esmeralda and her mother are reunited just before Esmeralda is executed.
