A Series of Unfortunate Events
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
I think I have been influenced by Lemony Snicket.
I know, I know what you're thinking! Right now you're probably not thinking "At your age and still reading Series of Unfortunate Events?!", neither are you considering picking up one of his books too, nor are you snoring away, floccinaucinihilipilificating the beauty of his abstruse way of writing.
No, you are thinking, "Who is Lemony Snicket?" In that case, you should pick up one of his books, a volume--any volume of [I've already mentioned] A Series of Unfortunate Events and peruse the droll description of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaires' harrowing--a word here which means causing them much fear and trauma-- and unpredictable journey and the only character consistent in appearing in every volume is the ignoble--a word here which means dishonourable in character or purpose, which is to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune--Count Olaf. Indeed, Olaf is a funny name, but funny has a few meanings, and one of which is laugh inducing, which certainly is not in the eyes of the Baudelairs. A more suitable definition of funny in this context would be unique, and therefore recognizable at the first syllable, and therefore fear-inducing instead of laugh-inducing to the Baudelaires, because the more volumes you read, the more treacherous schemes--a phrase here which means trying to get Violet to marry him, hyptonizing Klaus and poisoning Sunny--you read of and the more odious he is to you. And somewhere after the 5th volume you would learn of a faction--which means an organization divided in half and fighting each other--or better known in the Series as "schism".
The Baudelaire Orphans overcome adversity after adversity--a word here which means one of Count Olaf's schemes--without any help whatsoever from the adults because on one fully understood the danger COUNT OLAF posed to the Baudelaires, with the help of Violet's inventive brain, which she stimulates by tying up her long hair with a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, and Klaus's vast knowledge, or erudition, as I call it, often associated with his polishing his glasses, and not to mention Sunny, who, though young, already has her built-in weapons--razor-sharp teeth, sharpened by grating them together. No one in charge of them, for that matter. Albeit their perpetual loneliness, they do meet some loyal and trustworthy friends, like the Quagmire Triplets, for example, who are also orphans, or Kit Snicket, a pregnant woman who is most likely the author's sister.
But alas! Their breif introduction has to come to an abrupt end as I start to wonder why I am promoting these depressing books.
My valedictions,
Janice
(who is not involved in the story)
