The Carnivorous Carnival: Character Analysis

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"Give people what they want" is Olivia/Madame Lulu’s moto and main point in the ninth installment of the A Series of Unfortunate events, The Carnivorous Carnival. While the Baudelaires disagree with Olivia's saying, the rest of the carnival is all about it; two passionate people that support this quote include Madame Lulu herself and Hugo. In my opinion, the Baudelaires are right, people should be able to stand up for themselves and not listen to the people because what the people want could be too demanding for you.

In many parts of the book, Hugo is often considered the leader of the freaks, a group of weird people who are either deformed or can do un-normal things. The group was made up of Hugo, Kevin and Colette. Hugo is a hunchback with
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Although she is the owner and creator of the carnival. Whatever the people want, she or the freaks will do. So when duty called to answer one of the most important questions about the Baudelaires, she had to give her "interrogator" what they wanted. Throughout the series and the Baudelaires life, Count Olaf has been obsessed with stealing the family fortune of the millionaires. So he went to the hinterlands to ask of the Baudelaires whereabouts, information on them, and everything he could know of the parents. However, Madame Lulu could only answer one question per day, so he had to wait to receive his answers. The day before the questioning would start, the Baudelaires snuck into Madame Lulu’s fortune telling tent to see if they could find anything interesting. They did indeed find that Madam Lulu was a fraud. She had a whole library full of books, magazines and documents, so whatever the people asked, she could find the answer. When Madame Lulu found the Baudelaires, she received a lot of demanding questions. Frustrated, she sat down and started crying. She explained how she did not like giving out bad information to other people, but since they want to know, she needed to give it to them. Even though the carnival was hers, because of her motto, she was letting people control her.

Although everyone in the carnival lives by Madame Lulu’s code, the only people that opposed her motto was the Baudelaires.

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