books. He believes far too many of them are overly sweet and happy. He also thinks many of them are unrealistic and misleading. He believes children enjoy stories in which something scary or unfortunate occurs.” Daniel Handler also known as Lemony Snicket is the famous author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events. As a child he was bullied and mistreated. This influenced his writing because he writes stories with tragic endings and terrible disasters. Daniel Handler's life stories might have been

better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” This is the first thing you read when you open up A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, a thirteen book series that essentially changed my life. The year was either 2007 or 2008. It’s hard to remember specifics. I was in the third grade at Hildebran Elementary School. I absolutely adored my homeroom. My teacher was

children favor reading book series: familiarity, accomplishment, reading momentum, and collectability. Many are overwhelmed when they have to choose a new book to read; however, if all the young readers have to do is pick the next one in the series, they will feel more at ease. Furthermore, children feel accomplished after completing many novels because they are capable of reading more after developing literacy skills. “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a very popular series, and these four justifications

Bad things happen to good people. A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket, is a story about the orphans that are in a bad situation. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire parents died in a fire while Count Olaf is trying to steal their fortune. They escaped Count Olaf and got to safety for a little. They learned that bad things happen to good people too. Violet impressed me because she is smart, handy, and can do well under pressure. When she needs to make something she will tie her hair

In this journal, I will be characterizing Count Olaf. I characterized him as sinister and evil, as well as rude and greedy. To begin with, Count Olaf is quite sinister and evil. Count Olaf no matter what situation he is in always seems to come up with an evil scheme. In the past, he has made them that range from stealing the sugar bowl from the Hotel Denouement to multiple times trying to kidnap the Baudelaires. Most recently, when the orphans and Count Olaf were on the boat, he was planning on stealing

As the Baudelaire orphans rode into the beautiful sunset in the wicked Count Olaf’s car they thought to themselves many things….. “Is one of our parents actually alive” said Klaus. “What will Count Olaf do if he finds our parents” said Violet. Sunny which was not sitting with them thought when she is going to see them again. 10 hours pass and they get there. The got to the edge of the mountain. “It’s ginormous” says Violet and Klaus at the same time. As they rode up the mountain they saw it. V.F

makes light of events that would typically treated with great solemnity, such as death. Many humorous pieces of media contain an example of black humour, and this is quite discernible. Some examples that feature black humour are Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, a picture, and a quotation by Robert Bloch. Black humour is used very heavily in Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events film. Many examples of black humour are shown through the characters and events featured in the

Book: Series of unfortunate events: The Hostile Hospital (book 8) Author: Lemony Snicket Genre: Realistic Fiction/Adventure From chapters one to three, I made a couple of predictions. I think that Mr. Poe, the person whom the 3 Baudelaire siblings decided to contact for help, is not going to reply to the message from their telegram. In the message, they stated that they were accused of murdering someone when it wasn’t true, so they needed to acquire some help from Mr. Poe. I think this because in