Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

The Breakfast Club is a movie about five students from Shermer High School who gather on a Saturday to sit through eight hours of detention. These five students; Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, John Bender, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson, have nothing in common. The Breakfast Club zooms in on the high school social groups and cliques that are often seen in the development of peer groups during adolescents. The peer groups that are portrayed in The Breakfast Club include, John “the criminal”, Claire “the Princess”, Allison “the Basket case”, Brian “the Brain”, and Andrew “the athlete”. The movie centers around an essay that Principle Vernon wants each student to write regarding who they think they are. In the beginning of the film, the

tries hard to be responsible for his family and himself. He is a strong person

Although Feste is a clown, he seems to be the most perceptive and knowledgeable of all the characters.  He has an ability to be able to understand people and their problems.  Throughout the play, the clown acts as

He not only serves as a man who knows how to gather and make connections with others, but as a praise-worthy leader who keeps the city shine under the gloomy shields with his team

pass on knowledge and lessons learned back in China to their daughters so they won’t make or

It all started with the three Baudelaires children on a sunny day at the beach. Violet, the eldest of the three, loved creating things with her mechanical engineered mind. Klaus, the middle child, absolutely loved reading books about everything. He wanted to learn anything he possibly could. Sunny the youngest of the three, loved biting on anything she liked. These three the children inherited an enormous fortune, due to their parents success in life.

He is a hardworking man and knows what he must do.

Montag entered into the parlour and pulled the switch to the television we were viewing. I invited my friends Mrs. Phelps, and Mrs. Bowles over to view the evening show and to have a couple of drinks. Montag stared into our eyes and asked my ladies “ When do you suppose the war will start?” why was he speaking this gibberish talk? The evening show is on. He then continued, “ I notice your husbands aren’t here tonight?” I looked at him to silence but before he did Mrs. Phelps responded, “Oh, they come and go, come and go,” she continued blabbering on. I tried to end the conversation between the two by agreeing with Mrs. Phelps; I quickly responded, “Let old Pete do the worrying”. By this time my evening show was about over so I decided I might

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For my second Unit 4 I read The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket, this book takes place in the town V.D.F (the Baudelaire orphans aren’t quite sure what it stands for yet.) In this town the Baudelaire orphans are surrounded by really old people as if they were in a nursing home, all of the villagers are on a committee that makes up their town's law with is really unfair and cause the three orphans a lot of trouble.The main characters in this book are Violet the oldest, Klaus the middle child, and Sunny the youngest, Hector, and Count Olaf. There were a lot of other people but none that really helped or impacted the Baudelaire orphans. I like this book as much as you can like orphans being chased by a crazy person trying to take their fortune.

The Breakfast Club was a movie delineating the interactions of five high school students from differing backgrounds encountering the obstacle of a Saturday detention. These five students were composed of a princess, a brain, an outcast, a jock, and most pertinent to this paper, the rebel, John Bender. John Bender is depicted within this movie as a careless and hostile character with some authority issues. An impulsive and uncooperative individual, Bender, in the detention for pulling the fire alarm, serves as a sharp juxtaposition to the other characters, often challenging the others on their perspectives. This contrast could perhaps be attributed to his home life, which is different from his four detention counterparts.

But as the series goes on, especially in The Hostile Hospital and The Slippery Slope, poor Sunny matures very quickly because of all the horrible events that have occurred in her life because of the notorious Count Olaf. In the tenth book, The Slippery Slope, after concocting a plan to find the mysterious Sugar Bowl, Sunny tells her sister Violet that, “‘I’m not… I’m not a baby’” (Snicket 10-). It also can be seen through the way she speaks. Sunny is known for her “baby talk” which is only understandable by her siblings.

Count Olaf is known to be a dangerous criminal in the book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. His main target is the Baudelaire orphans, who were left extremely wealthy after the passing of their parents, and Olaf has shown throughout the books that he is willing to do anything to get their money. In the work The Bad Beginning, the author Lemony Snicket uses the character Count Olaf to show that being greedy can get you into trouble and villainous acts can sometimes bring people together. Count Olaf’s selfish need for money got him into trouble. For instance, when Olaf kidnapped Sunny to blackmail Violet into marrying him so he could have control of her wealth, his plan was foiled and there was a warrant put out for his arrest.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende perfectly draws the image of a successful novel because it’s overall effect on the reader is intimate and it recognizes itself as a different novel from others especially using a metaphor of stories giving birth to other stories.  Considered as a children’s novel, it should be given a chance to prove itself in the realm of other such intelligent novels. The novel expands this idea that stories are a result of other stories, it resembles the monomyth cycle for a simplified and similar understanding of its complex aspects and it finally reminds the reader of belonging and loving needs.  Thus, this novel by