The Bad Beginning

The first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning is written by Lemony Snicket. The book starts out when the Baudelaire children are on Briny Beach where they receive terrible news about their parent’s death. They had to live with the Mr. Poe and his family, people they knew, until Mr. Poe found the relative they were supposed to live with when both of their parents died. The relative they stayed with had the name of Count Olaf. While living at Count Olaf’s house the children met Justice Strauss a neighbor of their new guardian. In her house there was a gigantic library that the kids enjoyed very much. While living with Count Olaf they discovered he wanted their fortune that couldn’t be used until the oldest child was of age.…

Saving the world and saving your yourself while still trying to have a childhood is harder than it looks, which is shown by the book Maximum Ride: Nevermore and A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning .After I read Maximum Ride: Nevermore, I discovered that both these books focus on the struggles of young kids who have been detached from society because of terrible tragedies. They try to recuperate over time, but because of hypocritical people and brusque actions, they cannot escape…

1. Olaf gives insight to his life and past experiences. When Jim the big black sailor enters Olaf’s life, Jim brings out thoughts, feelings, and emotions in Olaf that are unforeseen. 2. The author wants his readers to realize, what time in the decade we were in and what was going on around that time dealing with discrimination. It identifies Jim and Olaf because, it states how Olaf judged Jim so badly just by the way his features were. 3. No reason, his fear of Jim started the hatred. Just…

They went to sleep at a strict bedtime of 7:30 and woke up bright and early at 5:15. The children could not stay awake past 7:30 or sleep in past 5:15. Well little did they know Count Olaf was slowly brainwashing them with who knows what method. However there always was a strange aroma in the air at these times. Each morning Sunny cried until Olaf came to the rescue to hold her, while Violet and Klaus made breakfast for everyone. They started to believe Count Olaf was actually family. Soon…

The book A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning is a perfect book for all ages. There are 13 books in the series and each one has something different waiting to happen. In each book something bad happens to the children and then they have to go somewhere else and live with someone else, too. The books are great for all ages, but ages 11-14 would enjoy the book a bit more because it may make more sense to them. Some of the wording they use may also be confusing to kids under the age 11…

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