A Series of Unfortunate Events

Nothing good comes from the world; the Boudelaire children-Violet, Klaus, and Sunny- learned this the hard way. In the book The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket; after a huge fire destroyed their house and killed their mother and father the children became orphans and had to move into one of their closest relatives houses. There lawyer taking the term closest relative to literally the closest in distance instead of knowing the relative the best puts the children into the hands of a evil person named Count Olaf. Olaf has a evil plan to steal the childrens large fortune of inheritance. The children have to fend for themselves to keep their fortune safe while Count Olaf kills each of their guardians one by one.

The series/book is very good because the author Lemony Snicket puts lots of lines that have great meaning and make you think about life, “It is a curious thing a death of a loved one. We all know our time in this world is limited...And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know”(Snicket 96). Lines like this add ture meaning to the book in a deep way because he wants you to value what you have now because eventually it will die away. Also the ways Snicket writes is unique in a very good way, “ ...the word ‘oblivious’ here means ‘not aware that Stephano was really Count Olaf and thus being in a great deal of danger’”,(Snicket 79) The way his writing is unique is that he will pause right in a action scene and explain what a small vocab word means like nothing is happening. The use of dramatic irony is always present in the books, “...’dramatic irony’. Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and unusually unpleasant meaning”,  (Snicket 32). It’s always present in his books and he basically tells you from the beginning that Count Olaf isn’t finished and that he will come back for the kids and kill their guardian at the time. When reading the books and hoping that the Boudelaire children will find a nice new home, but evil keeps coming back and destroying all they have keeps the reader interested and makes you want to get to the point where the orphans are freed from fear that Count Olaf puts on them. All this gives the book and the series a straight 10/10.