Analysis Of Daniel Handler's A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

Daniel Handler’s (or most commonly known by his pseudonym Lemony Snicket) A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Bad Beginning came as a breath of fresh air in the children’s literature genre when it was released on September 30th, 1999. That is a big statement concerning a novel, but not since Roald Dahl had there been a children fiction author who dared defy the stereotype of the genre itself. Normally, people associate children’s literature with a tale that portrays a world that is all sunshine and rainbows, where, in spite of having the sole antagonist who wants bad things to happen to the protagonist, there are more characters in it who wants good things to happen to him/her/it. Most importantly, self-explanatory from the name of the genre