October book report #1

The Book that I am reading for this month is called The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. Honestly, I have enjoyed reading this book because the conflicts that the orphans have to overcome are really interesting and humorous, which is what I like. Their personalities also made it all the more better. This book is pretty depressing considering that they aren’t treated any better than dirt. In this book, the Baudelaire children’s parents perish in a tragic fire. They are then forced to be adopted by the horrible Count Olaf. Right when the children move into Count Olaf’s filthy home, they could already tell that he was a nasty and evil man.

There are a couple of main characters in this book. They are Violet, the eldest and the child that is very interested and knows a lot about inventing. Another main character is Klaus, he is the middle child and he loves to read. He retains everything that he reads which makes it easier for them to come up with ideas to escape the situation that they are in. The last main character is Sunny. She is the infant of the family and she seems to understand what everyone else is saying but doesn’t know how to talk. She also loves to bite on things. I do not really think that that I am anything similar to the characters because they have different interests that I do. They like to read about marriage laws and pulleys for fun when I would rather play outside.I do not think that the Baudelaire children and I are alike because of the fact that I'm am not as brave or as smart as they are.

In the book, Count Olaf becomes their guardian or father as he puts it. He knows that the Baudelaire's parents have left a lot of money for the children and they have written in their will that they would like to have their children adopted by family, no matter how far away they are in the family tree. Count Olaf tries to trick them into participating in a play that he wrote about a marvelous marriage. He would play the groom and Violet would play the bride. Their neighbor, Justice Strauss would play the judge because she is a real judge that could make the play more realistic. He tried to trick them to play the parts without letting them know that it was a real marriage, so that he could marry Violet and he could have all the control over the Baudelaire fortune. If I were in their situation, I would not have thought of anything to get myself or others out of it. I probably would have gotten onto the floor and lay in the fetal position crying my eyes out if I found out that I would be forced to marry an old man and have to give him their fortune.. Since Count Olaf was Violet's guardian, he has given her permission to marry because she was underaged. It was very simple to get married there. All you needed was a signature from both the bride and groom, a judge, and witnesses which were the people that came to watch the play. The way they got out of the marriage and the possibility of living with the evil Count Olaf for the rest of their lives was to fake the signature. Justice Strauss has told the children that in order for the marriage to be valid, the signatures have to be in their hand when they were trying to find out about marriage laws and rights.. Violet is right handed so she signs the contract with her left thus saving her siblings and their fortune from Count Olaf. Then they get taken away from the Count and stay with their social worker to make arrangements for their next adoption by another relative. I think that I could have thought of something as simple as that but I would probably be too scared to think!