THE BAD BEGINNINGBy: Shanice Champ

Library Assistant 2nd. Prd.

2-18-2011

LEMONY SNICKETBorn: Feb.28, 1970Birthplace: San Francisco, CaliforniaBirth Name: Daniel HandlerKnown 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.