Analysis Of Daniel Handler's A Series Of Unfortunate Events

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Most authors tend to write their books in an enthusiastic fashion. Daniel Handler, on the other hand, has a gloomy writing form, showing the not-so-nice things that can occur to people. For example, the three Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Siblings who just lose their parents in a fire that engulfed their house in flames and have to deal with the nuisance known as Count Olaf, a villain after their enormous inheritance. Handler wrote the thirteen books in the series under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. A Series of Unfortunate Events is Handler’s best-known work. In the last book of the series, the three Baudelaires are in the middle of the ocean on a boat after leaving a burning hotel where they worked undercover. Unfortunately, the children are accompanied by Count Olaf, the man after their finances. “And the Baudelaire fortune is finally mine!” Olaf cackled “Finally, I am a very wealthy man, which means everybody must do what I say!” Was Olaf’s reaction to their predicament even though his …show more content…

This series has a large number of perspectives, so many ways to look at these people’s lives and the way they look at what they are doing. “It depends on how you look at it” “It depends on how you look at it” is everything in this story. Someone might see three troubling orphans digging a hole to trap an innocent woman when really they are trying to save themselves from her and her boyfriend, Count Olaf who is trying to steal their fortune by any means possible. But not all of the book is low spirited. “I’m dressed as a pregnant woman because I am a pregnant woman” Count Olaf replies, in his high pitched, disguised voice. Although much of Handler’s writing in this book consists of unsettling tragedies, there are parts with humor and joy. The happy and sad, the mysteries, and the nail-biters are what make Handler’s books so

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