Violet Baudelaire Essays

  • Summary: A Series Of Unfortunate Events

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    A Series Of Unfortunate Events The series of Unfortunate Events originally written by Daniel Handler and narrated by Lemony Snickett’s. Shows the story of 3 orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire who face many obstacles and tragic events throughout the series while trying to unleash and solve their family secrets. The orphans parents died in a mysterious fire, and now the orphans are being passed around from guardian to guardian. They are passed on to a distant relative named Count Olaf, who

  • The Bad Beginning

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    them all. The author is Daniel Handler and he wrote it under the pen name Lemony Snicket. I have represent first book, The Bad Beginning. It tells about three orphaned children and their adventures. The theme is sad and depresive, but every time Baudelaire children manage to get out of every unpleasant situation, just as the old proverb goes: Every cloud has a silver lining.

  • A Bad Beginning Book Report

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    Events: A Bad Beginning is Violet Baudelaire, a fourteen year old girl. She is one of the protagonists in the story. In A Bad Beginning her parents pass away in a fire. She looses her house and gets sent off, with her two siblings: Klaus and Sunny, to live with their wicked Uncle, Count Olaf. Their parents left them a stupendous fortune. Count Olaf knows this so he plans to steal their fortune. He does this by trying to marry Violet, legally, during a play. Violet changes in the story from

  • Baudelaire Mansion: Cause And Effect

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    Cause Effect 1. The three Baudelaires, Sunny, Klaus, and Violet, became orphans when their parents died in the fire that took the Baudelaire Mansion. The orphans were placed in the care of evil Count Olaf, then Uncle Monty, who was murdered by Count Olaf. 2. Count Olaf will do anything possible to get the Baudelaire fortune, which was left to Violet, who will manage it when she is older. The Baudelaires always keep an eye out for him, and have so far found some way to escape his master plans. 3

  • The Grim Grotto: Elements of Fiction

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    Count Olaf. The opposing forces are Count Olaf’s troupe and the Baudelaire orphans. This conflict was never resolved within the book. However, there are many subordinate conflicts in this story. The first subordinate conflict is finding Quigley Quagmire and meeting him at the last safe place. The conflict is in between the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf. This is the Baudelaire’s conflict. Another one is saving the youngest Baudelaire-Sunny from the poisonous Medusoid Mycelium. This is Sunny’s conflict

  • Creative Writing: The Bad Beginning

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    The Story begins on a beach with three young children playing. Violet, 14, inventor; Klaus, 12, amateur researcher; and Sunny, baby, professional biter who has not totally developed speech. When they arrive to the beach it is a cloudy foggy overcast day. Violet is spending her time here skipping rocks, Klaus is studying tide pools and Sunny is just enjoying her time being at the beach with her older siblings. Even though it is not the greatest day in the world, the children are enjoying their time

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snickets

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    It is the third book of the series. b. Author The wonderful and talented personage who wrote this book is Lemony Snickets. He is a studied expert in rhetorical analysis, a distinguished scholar, an amateur connoisseur. c. Brief Summary The Baudelaire Children were orphaned by a fire. They were sent from one place to another, from relative to relative. In this installment, the children are sent to their new guardian, Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine lives in this hill above Lake Lachrymose. She

  • Constructing the Characters in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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    events, violet is constructed to be an emotionally strong inventor, Klaus is constructed to be a bookish intelligent teenager with intelligence well beyond his age, sunny is constructed to be a baby who loves to bite things whose name shows her intelligence and count Olaf is constructed to be a self-centred, evil man that is a very bad actor. Each of these characters are constructed using a mixture of symbolism, written, audio and technical codes. Violet is the eldest of the three Baudelaire children

  • Once Upon a Time, the TV Show

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    Snow White jumped off the cliff, and plunged into the waters below, trying to escape the evil queen's huntsmen once again. That is one example of one that would do unspeakable things in order to survive. Everyone knows the classic tale of Snow White, but Once Upon A Time puts twists on every tale you thought you knew. In the tv show Once Upon A Time, all fairy tales are twisted into a new form, and one of the strongest relationships between the show's most famous villain, and the one fairy tale

  • Color as Metaphor in Film What Dreams May Come

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    Looking at landscape art, especially when painted by one of the masters, many have undoubtedly pondered: what would it be like to live there? Shapes and attention to detail are, of course, important in a painting. However, it is color that draws the eye and inspires the heart. Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and dramatist, spoke well of this when he noted that, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. (qtd in “color”)”. Vincent

  • Summary of The Austere Academy

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    The Austere Academy Mr. Poe drives the Baudelaire children to Prufrock Preparatory School. When they get there they meet Vice Principal Nero. Supposedly, they have an advanced computer system that will keep Count Olaf away. When they get there they hear about this wonderful place to live where you get fresh bowls of fruit every day, there is a library, and a game and social room. Only if you have your guardian sign a permission slip. Since the Baudelaire children did not have a guardian, they had

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

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    handle an unhappy ending. He did just that in his novel, The Bad Beginning, the first novel in The Series of Unfortunate Events. The writing style unmistakably sets a gloomy and dire world for his characters. It starts off with the three siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny experiencing the great grief of their parents’ sudden death. The children, now orphans, have to go live with their distant relative, Count Olaf, who have no intention of treating them well. The readers soon learn that the children

  • We Live in a World of Pain and Happiness

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    The world has people that come in many different shapes and sizes. We have a variety of ethnicities, religions, and statuses. Rich people, poor people... what do they all have in common? They have a life, plain and simple. A life full of loved ones, loved things, loved places. But are they happy? Are most people satisfied with what they have in life? In this world there is pain and happiness, and you do not always get to choose what your lot is going to become. In The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick

  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Analysis

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    In Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dalh use’s the 7 deadly sins to symbolize the main characters from the 1964 book. Willy Wonka holds a contest where five kids find a golden ticket in a candy bar can come into his factory, take a tour, and win a prize at the end. The seven deadly sins represent seven of main characters. The seven deadly sins are lust, gluttony, greed, pride, anger, sloth, and envy throughout my paper you will see how each one is represented. Willy Wonka is the leading

  • Frank O’Hara as Modernist for the People

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    piping on city streets".  This is a backhanded compliment at best but it does solder a connection between lyric poetry and the cityscape.  Consider that O'Hara is following in the footsteps of another lyric poet of the urban landscape, Charles Baudelaire.  Baudelaire attempts to embrace modernity, as he sees it, and to write the poetry of the city and the crowd.  Although his intentions... ... middle of paper ... ...r. [7] Neal Bowers.  "The City Limits: Frank O'Hara's Poetry".  Frank O'Hara: To

  • Aesthetic of Modernist Cinema

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    Standing Out in a Crowd: The Aesthetic of Modernist Cinema 2 Among the large objects, such as vast plains or panoramas of any kind, one deserves special attention: the masses. No doubt imperial Rome already teemed with them. But masses of people in the modern sense entered the historical scene only in the wake of the industrial revolution. Then they became a social force of first magnitude. Warring nations resorted to levies on an unheard-of scale and identifiable groups yielded to the

  • Analysis of Paris Spleen, by Charles Baudelaire

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    Charles Baudelaire was a French poet in the late eighteen hundreds. He composed many short poems that didn’t necessarily rhyme. Most of his texts allow for several interpretations. The poems were concentrated around feelings of melancholy, ideas of beauty, happiness, and the desire to escape reality. Baudelaire uses these notions to express himself, others, and his art. Baudelaire fuses his poetry with metaphors or words that indirectly explain the poems to force the reader to analyze the true

  • Song of Myself by Walt Whitmas

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    is the persona in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. He is a flâneur in all ways but one. In “The Painter of Modern Life”, Baudelaire gives a very extensive and profound description of what aspects one needs in order be considered or labeled a flâneur. For example, he explains how the flâneur is a lover of universal life and sets up house in the heart of multitude. ( Baudelaire 9) Surrounded by the unknown in an immense sea of people, he who is flâneur will bask in the crowd and make himself at home

  • Freaks of the Core

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    Freaks of the Core Wherein lies the odd attraction and power of the freakish? Just as often as it introduces us to expressions of common human experience, study in the Humanities also introduces us to the decidedly uncommon--to writers, artists and thinkers who push conventional limits of language and narrative, vision and imagination, memory and history, or logic and rationality. For our Freaks of the Core colloquium, we explored the outer limits of human expression and experience. What, we asked

  • The Flaneur's Relationship to Marginal Types in The Old Acrobat

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    world no longer wants to enter!”17 Notes 1. Charles Baudelaire, The Parisian Prowler, 2nd ed. trans. Edward K. Kaplan (Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 2. Baudelaire, The Parisian Prowler, 29. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid., 27. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid., 30. 17. Ibid. Bibliography Baudelaire, Charles. The Parisian Prowler. Trans. Edward K. Kaplan. 2nd