A Series of Unfortunate Events

(Tr. 17:12-13.) Franklin divulged information about Lyndsay’s family drama and about Harry’s unfortunate termination which occurred when he expressed his frustrations with the school because this incident led to the school obtaining a restraining order against Harry for his comments and loitering. (Tr. 17:21-25). After the conversation with Franklin…

little girl since Mardi Gras was my favorite holiday. I had gone out to buy the most fantastic dress to attend the ball with my father, yet he had falling quite ill around Mardi Gras and had to be taken to the hospital. This shattered my heart. The event I had been looking forward to attending with my father was now out of reach as he was too weak and sick to go. I cried for hours, devastated about my father’s illness. I was…

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer is the story of a nameless communist spy who is disturbed by his own political beliefs. He is a half French and half Vietnamese communist agent, who is conflicted about his own views on events. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator explains that he is being held as a prisoner and is being forced to write a letter of confession for the edict. A clash of thoughts, a sequence of dualities. Born and raised in Vietnam, he is a Vietnamese spy in South Vietnam…

our possession, but what it that desire leads to us to commit foul sins that affect others? The Crucibles, written by Arthur Miller, narrates a story about a small, religious Puritan town, Salem, located in the New England colonies, and the uncanny events that occur as a result of pure envy, deception, and manipulation. Strange incidents arose, leading residents to place the blame on the devil’s minions, witches. As a result, numerous trials and persecutions took place. The main antagonist and…

Title My life has been a series of bad timing and bad luck. I believe if Lemony Snickets would have heard my story she would have titled her series The Series of Semi-Unfortunate Events. When most kids look back on their childhood they think about family vacations, the time they built a tree house with dad or running through the sprinklers when I look back the first thing I think of is when my parents got divorce. I don’t want to set the wrong picture for my childhood, it was great. I battled…

they are not the absolute evil in fall in more of a gray area. Within Truman Capote’s novel, In Cold Blood, readers get an in-depth look at a pair of murderers and are able how one can fall down such a wicked path. In his novel, Capote recounts the events of 1959, when four members of the Clutter Family were murdered and the investigation that followed. A major focus of this novel, however not the murder itself, but the two murderers themselves, Richard “Dick” Hitchcock and Perry Smith. Going…

wouldn’t get justice, and that his killer would be set free? Neither did Sybrina Fulton the mother of Trayvon Martin. From the eyes of a young African American teen, the case of Trayvon was a horror. On the night of February 26, 2012 the unfortunate series of events began to unfold. Trayvon Martin had took a trip with his father to visit his dad fiancée at her Townhouse “The Retreat at Twins Lake” in Sanford,Florida. He had gotten suspended from school and went with his dad. On the night of…

The attribution theory is a theory that proposes an explanation of people’s successes and failures. The theory uses three factors; stability, locus of causality and locus of control, that can explain just that. In the opening of the movie, the unfortunate events and bad luck of Vince Papale is the factor that ascribes failure. The external cause of causality is when believed that he wasn’t good enough for anybody, not for teaching, not for his wife and surely not for any opportunities that came…

different feelings the speaker may be feeling. Synthesize Summary and Analysis How do the literal events of the story come together to make something more than an anecdote or personal lament? The events allowed for an actual story, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, that all connect to form a cohesive account of what the speaker and her family had to go through. Since it gives a sequence of events recounting what happened and doesn’t just focus on the way the speaker is feeling about a…

Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events is very egotistical. He cares only about himself and has no regard for the Baudelaire children. He acts for himself and puts them in danger to better his career. The evil queen from Snow White is so vain and self-absorbed that she tries…