Count Olaf

Snicket’s A series of Unfortunate Events. In this movie, three rich, newly orphaned children go to live with a distant family member, by the name of Count Olaf, who happens to live closest to where the children are. This Count Olaf is quickly revealed to be the villain of the story, trying everything in his power to get the children’s inheritance. Count Olaf is immediately shown to be a quirky character with a flare for the dramatic. At the beginning he is put in an ominous setting, of his own design

“What if Count Olaf shows up” on page 8. This shows that Klaus was actually scared of Count Olaf. We didn’t know that he was scared of anything till this point. So this means a characteristic for him is that he is scared of Count Olaf. ““Of course”, Klaus said nervously, “a coincidence”” (page 13). Count Olaf’s tattoo looks just like the house down the street. Klaus was nervous because of that house looking like Count Olaf’s tattoo worried him because he thought Count Olaf might be watching him and

I am Count Olaf and Count is actually my first name. You see I always thought of myself as the perfect person. To show that I joined a group called the V.F.D. and got a tattoo on my ankle that looked like an eye, but was actually said V.F.D. However this big schism split up V.F.D. because all the goody goody ones didn’t care about money. So we turned on them and began stealing money from the volunteers. Today I just went to the bank and told them that I was one of the Baudelaire’s relatives. This

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.

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

Title: I Can Not Go To School Today! By: Shel Silberstein Genre: Realistic Fiction Key vocabulary: Temperature, wrenched, appendix Suggested use: Class Read Aloud – I think this could make a good first couple weeks of school lesson introducing poetry or even rhyming. Suggested Grade Level: 1st-3rd grade Questions: “I know this can’t possibly be true, but have any of you every missed school for a reason that might not have been true? What excuse from the poem do you think is the most convincing

in the formal operational stage. He acts much older than his age, as he has good morals and abstract thinking. Klaus is the one who realizes that if Violet participates in Count Olaf’s play, then she will be legally wed to him. As well as thinking, he has gained morals and fights along side Violet to counteract Count Olaf and his unjust rules and horrible acts he commits towards the children, especially the youngest Sunny. Sunny is only listed as in infant in the book, but she is clearly in the

I was in the 2nd grade when I met Count Olaf. Not in person, no. Through words, I stumbled upon the greasy, unibrowed actor. As I read book after book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Count Olaf came to life, and inspired to no end. Count Olaf is a distant relative of the Baudelaire orphans. He is chasing their fortune by hatching schemes to become their guardian. Some call him sleazy, greedy, evil. I call him determined, creative, and resourceful. He is an instrumental figure

challenges. When the children get there they find it to look like a nice place but the go to see the vice principal whose name is Nero. He explains the rules of Prufrock Prep, reassuring them that his advanced computer system will keep their enemy, Count Olaf, away, but that due to a lack of parental permission to sleep in the students' dormitory, the children will live in the "Orphans' Shack". He also explains that Sunny will have to work as his assistant, as she is too young to go to school. Reluctantly

1 The Lion King and Frozen are examples of internal conflict. Alice and Wonderland and White House Down are examples of external conflict. Nala tries to hunt Pumbaa and Simba saves Pumbaa. Nala celebrates once she realizes he is not dead and tells him about the horror that has followed with Scars’ rule. Simba struggles to decide whether he should return and take his rightful place as kind of the pride or not. Elsa has been given the gift of ice. She almost kills her younger sister once. Her parents