Analysis Of The Bad Beginning By Lemony Snicket

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" The Bad Beginning " By: Lemony Snicket I am making a comparison of the first book of the series of Unfortunate Events with the episodes. The first event is that in the book Mr.Poe takes care of the children for a couple of days before he finds a living relative of the children. In the episode they go strait to the evil villian Count Olaf. The second big event was when their parents died, in the book they went to the lake because they wanted to. In the episode their parents had sent them their for no reason. The third event was the money their parents had left for them, in the book Count Olaf revealed his plan to steal their money with no hesitance. In the episode he never wanted to reveal his plan, the children found out his plan.

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