THE BAD BEGINNING
By: Shanice Champ
Library Assistant 2nd. Prd.
2-18-2011
LEMONY SNICKET
Born:
Feb.28,
1970
Birthplace:
San
Francisco,
California
Birth Name:
Daniel
Handler
Known for his
sequence of the
books The
Series of
Unfortunate
Events.
Daniel
Handler won
the Academy
of American
Poets Prize
(1992),
Wesleyan
University's
Olin
Fellowship
(1992-1993),
and accepted
the Quill
Award for
The
Penultimate
Peril (2006)
for Lemony
Snicket
RECOMMENDATIONS
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I would recommend this book to a high school student
because its very interesting and you would want to know
the things that’s coming next.
My favorite part was when the three kids found out what
the foster parent was trying to do to them.
I would tell them they should read it because they might
can relate to it or see how life will be if you had a foster
parent.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
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My character Violet Baudelaire is the oldest out of three
kids. She is 14 years old and liked to invent and build
many strange devices.
My character Klaus Baudelaire is the middle child of the
three kids and the only boy. He is a little over 12 years old
and wore glasses. He is a intelligent boy and liked to
examine creatures in tide pools.
My character Sunny Baudelaire is the youngest out of the
three kids. She is an infant very small for her age but she
made up for it by biting everything she could.
RESOURCE PAGE
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Lemony Snicket has published many books as The Series of
Unfortunate Event( in our library), The Blank Book, The
Unauthorized Autobiography, Behind the Scenes with
Count Olaf, The Notorious Notations.
The Reptile Room(F SNI 1999), The Wide Window(F SNI
2000), The Miserable Mill(F SNI 2000)
Some books that are in other library’s are The
Unauthorized Autobiography(2003), The Reptile
Room(2007), The Wide Window(2007)
SUMMARY
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My book is about three kids who parents burnt up in their
house and their parents best friend sent them to stay wit a
family member name Count Oalf who treated them bad
and made them do many chores. He knew that the three
kids parents left there fortune to the oldest girl so Count
Oalf wanted to marry her so he tried to put the kids in his
play so that he could marry her and wouldn’t nobody know
until the play was over but the kids did research and found
out what was happening so at the end he didn’t marry her
and he escaped from the theater before the police came. So
from then on he is still searching for the kids to kill them
and marry the oldest sister.
EXPOSITION
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Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire
Protagonist=Violet, Klaus, Sunny
Antagonist=Count Oalf
You need to know that the three Baudelaire kids was
happy and fine until there parents died and they was sent
to live with a family member they barely knew.
CONFLICT
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The conflict is the Baudelaire kids hates staying with their
family member Count Oalf because he is mean and he is
trying to take the kids fortune that their parents left them
when they died.
RISING ACTION
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The rising action of the story is the kids knew something
wasn’t right with Count Oalf so they did research in the
next door neighbor Justice Strauss library. All three of the
kids went at first but Count Oalf found them and made
them come back to his house, so the next day Violet went
looking for books but she didn’t find anything, then the
next day Klaus went to Justice Strauss house to look for
books ;he found one that he thought he could find info on
but he didn’t get a chance to read it because Count Oalf
sent one of his theater friends to come get Klaus so that
night while everybody was sleep he found out what was
going on but it was to late because Count Oalf had took the
baby sister Sunny and had her hanging off a tower just so
Violet will marry him because he knew they would want
their sister back and they couldn’t get her until Violet
married him.
CLIMAX
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Count Oalf is on the stage about to marry Violet, they had
just said their vowels and she signed the document to
finalize the marriage, but something wasn’t right about the
signing. Will Count Oalf get away with the marriage and
the kids fortune? Will the kids be stuck with Count Oalf
the rest of their lives?
FALLING ACTION
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So now Count Oalf and Violet just got married and Count
Oalf told everybody his plan because he thought the
marriage was finalized. The kids finally get their baby
sister back from Count Oalf so now Violet told everybody
she didn’t sign the document with the hand she write with
she signed it the opposite hand so the marriage was not
finalized. Count Oalf was mad at Violet and that he told
everybody his plan and it didn’t work.
RESOLUTION
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Since everybody knows Count Oalfs plan and they see the
marriage isn’t finalized they want to carry Count Oalf to
jail but before the police or anybody could get ahold of
Count Oalf one of his theater friends cut all the lights off in
the theater so its pitch dark and while Violet went looking
for the light switch Count Oalf touched her shoulder and
told her “he will get her fortune if it’s the last thing he do”.
So now Violet just flicked the lights back on but Count Oalf
and his friends had disappeared. So Justice Strauss had
wanted the kids to come live with her but Mr. Poe told
them that their parents wanted they to stay with family
members so they had to go home with him a few days then
he would find them another family member to go to. So at
the end of the story the kids was sad again.
WORKS CITED PAGE
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Snicket, Lemony. "Lemony Snicket." Images of Lemony
Snicket. blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/?p=3835,
Web. 20 Feb.
"Lemony Snicket."
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/lemonysnicket.
html. N.p., 2007. Web. 1 Jan.
Snicket, Lemony . The Bad Beginning. New York , NY:
Scholastic Inc., 2000. Print.