Book Review: Lemony Snicker, By Daniel Handler

“Hana’s suitcase”, written by Karen Levine, records a painful memory of a Toronto resident, Gorge Brady, to his lost younger sister in the World War II (WWII), Hana Brady. This memory is provoked by an unexpected package from Japan. Which tells him they are exhibiting his sister’s suitcase as well as her drawing photographs in Tokyo Holocaust Center for a purpose of education about the Holocaust to the Japanese children. And they hope to get more information about his sister, Hana Brady’s life. In the continuing communication with the Japanese children, Gorge gives them all the details about Hana’s short life, and what happens to her in the WWII.

With comedy as the main tone of the book, it becomes more cheerfully appealing to the reader. As the many gloomy concepts within the book continue to occur throughout the story,

In The Book Thief, Markus Zusak used narrative voices to convey extremes of human behavior. The characters through which he conveyed these innovated techniques are Death, the narrator, and Max Vandeburg, a central character. Death’s narrative voice was distant and provided juxtaposition on the kindness and cruelty of humans through

In ‘The Book Thief’, Markus Zusak uses the theme “dark times do not last forever”, to show human resilience and the will to find happiness. In this book, there are many low points of the characters’ lives, whether it be a dead relative or friend, or the hardships of war. However, Liesel Meminger, the main character, still finds a way to happiness throughout the book. She finds joy in the smallest of things, such as her words and the sound of her papa’s accordion despite the pain from the loss of her mother and brother. Other characters also find joy throughout the book and stay resilient such as the Hubermanns family and Max building a snowman in their basement, Rudy and other neighborhood kids playing soccer in the streets, and

Our Life is a matter of choices. Live well and have faith and it will never go wrong. Our lives can be full of crazy ups and downs that shape our views on how life should be lived. With a similar ideology, author Flannery O’Connor’s depicts her own life struggles using different aspects and details throughout her novels and short stories. O’Connor lived by the basis that life must go on no matter the hardships. In her novels she represented various characters who made wrong choices and due to those choices suffered extreme negative consequences. Despite her struggles, O’Connor made the choice to continue on in her life yet many of her novels contradicted that same idea by having characters in her novels and short stories suffer consequences for making the wrong choices. Because the

Many people today consider Wise Blood to be one of history’s greatest examples of Southern gothic literature. With its twisted plot, scenes of self-mutilation, and overall dark tone it is easy to understand why people from all find Wise Blood to be dark and depressing. However, Flannery O’Connor, the novel’s author, claims that she wrote the novel to be a comedy, rather than a tragedy (O’Connor). The elements of the novel that O’Connor and others have considered especially “comedic” are its examples of surprise, mistaken identities, and especially, irony. Readers can find irony throughout the entirety of Wise Blood, as well as its theme of fate over free will. Irony ties in with this theme often through the characters’ actions, thoughts, and emotions.

Death is the narrator. He is fascinated by humans and the colors of the world, but he struggles throughout the novel to figure out how humans are capable of so much ugliness and so much beauty. Death has real feelings,you can see him experience both sadness and joy. He even gets depressed.Death often provides humorous, or dark quotes. having death to narrate the book thief, foreshadows the book. Death is this mean character that kills people. He is sometimes nice and helps.He lists the main elements of the story, and reveals that he has seen the main character, the book thief, three times. The first time he saw her was on a train where he had come to collect the soul of a small boy. The book thief watched him take the boy with tears frozen

Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin, demonstrate the suffering that the protagonist endures in order to

As a child, Lizzie was seemingly perfect, having published her first children’s book before the age of twelve. However, young Lizzie’s life was not as perfect as it looked from the outside. At this time, she believes that life is worthless, that her highly praised grades are meaningless, and has trouble seeing how her mother can’t see that she is in such copious amounts of distress. By explaining to her audience how her father’s refusal to pay medical bills, and her mother's constant complaining about money, worsened her condition, followed by the details of her mother’s obsession with her being perfect, becoming erratic if she was anything less, led to the increased detachment she felt, Lizzie shows just how a parent, possibly trying their best to help, can easily drive their child to the edge of insanity, never wanting to believe they are

The dark side of human nature has been present throughout the course of life as illustrated in The Cask of Amontillado, Good Country People, and The Lottery. The darkness is a predominant theme as expressed by a few character traits throughout the short stories. Humans have been responsible for acts of care and compassion, yet the dark side of human nature overcomes them through the themes of pride, self preservation, and deception which throughout the short stories gives evidence of the dark side of human nature.

“Great Expectations”, “The Sign of the Four”, and “The Red Badge of Courage” are books written with literary elements as building block for storytelling. Each first chapter uses character development, setting description, and many types of conflict to interest the reader. Even though all of the stories contain these elements, some are used more than others. “Great Expectations” and “The Red Badge of Courage” focus on the setting and character description more than “The Sign of The Four” where the element on conflict is heavily used.

This book is about Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, three very unlucky children. Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to invent and build strange devices. Anyone who knew Violet could tell she was thinking hard because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Klaus Baudelaire, the middle child, and the only boy liked to examine creatures. Klaus was twelve years old and wore glasses, which made him look quite intelligent. He was, in fact, intelligent. He loved to read and has found a

The book “Lord of the Flies” is driven by William Golding’s consideration of human evil, a topic that involves an examination not only of human nature, but also the causes, effects, and manifestations of evil. It also demands observations of the methods or ideologies that humankind uses to combat evil and whether those methods are effective. Golding addresses these topics through the allegory of his novel being translated into movies. It is translated into two versions: British and American.

The Bad Beginning is the first in a series of children's novels written by Lemony Snicket, whose real name is Daniel Handler, and was published in 1999. The book is about the three Baudelaire children, Violet, the oldest at age fourteen, her younger brother Klaus and the baby Sunny all of whom described as intelligent, charming and resourceful and extremely unlucky. The story begins with the children playing on the beach when they are approached by a banker, Mr. Poe, who tells them that both of their parents have been killed in a fire and that they are now orphans.

Handler’s books have sold more than seventy million prints and have been interpreted into forty dialects, and have been modified for screen and stage. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books, and one son”. Furthermore, Daniel Handler wrote some piece. He write novels, not novels, books for Holidays, assorted, as the Pope and Children’s Book as Lemony Snicket. Moreover, the novels he wrote are All the Dirty Parts, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth , Adverbs, Why We Broke Up and We Are Pirates. Also, more other pieces like Weather, Weather, Girls Standing on Lawns, Hurry Up and Wait. Additionally, there are books for holidays that he wrote such as The Lump of Caol, The Baby in The Manager and The Lakte Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming. Then as the pope he wrote How To Dress for Every Occasion. Lastly, while penning children’s book as Lemony Snicket, He wrote, A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong