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The Bad Beginning Or Orphans Essay

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The bad beginning or Orphans is a book about protecting properties and the genre of this novel is mystery, adventure, and family. The main character of this novel are three children whose name are Baudelaire Violet, Baudelaire Klaus, and Baudelaire Sunny. Violet is an older sister, she likes to skip rocks. Klaus is a middle child, he is extremely smart and he always goes to the library for reading books. Sunny is the youngest child, who likes to bite things. At the beginning, their parents die because of an unexpected fire. Therefore, they went to a man called Count Olaf’s house. Count Olaf is a stage actor, and a distant relatives of the children. Count Olaf is a horrible person, he always planned for their parent’s heritage. Few month later, Count Olaf planned to marry Violet to get their money. Before the wedding, Count Olaf catched Sunny so Violet should marry him. …show more content…

The first weakness is some of the actions that is in the book is not really truthful. For example, in chapter 10, Violet just used a simple invention and climbed up to the tall tower, the most difficult part is to hook to the tower, and I think the hook is not strong enough to carry a person. The second weakness is the story may not fit the readers that are above 25 years old because the book is too easy for them, they might feel boring when they are reading this book. In this book, everything seems perfect, however, I believe the book still have some parts that did not work really well in the book. For example, the way that Count Olaf escape is like action movie’s segment, I think it does not suit this book. The book could be done better at make the story more realistic because even though the story is not real, but the main idea of the novel is not science fiction or action fiction. Next, the novel did not explain some details such as why Count Olaf’s house has many eye drawing and why Count Olaf’s ankle have an eye

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