Baudelaire Mansion: Cause And Effect

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. Dr. Montgomery Montgomery (Uncle Monty) was murdered by Count Olaf.
The Baudelaires went to Lake Lachrymose to live with their Aunt Josephine, whom they didn’t know.
4. Mr. Poe manages the Baudelaire fortune, and places them in the best care possible.

He feels bad for the children.
He brought the orphans peppermints when they arrived at Damocles Dock on the Fickle Ferry.
5. They were going to Aunt Josephine’s house atop the cliff.
They children rode a cab to the very top of the cliff, and the home was overhanging, supported by metal stilts.
6. The Baudelaires arrived at Aunt Josephine’s house.
She greeted them, and warned them not to trip over the welcome mat.
7. Aunt Jo was afraid of the stove exploding.
She never cooked any hot meals.
8. She was afraid of the fridge falling.
She told the children to stay away to avoid being crushed.
9. Aunt Jo was afraid of the phone electrocuting her.
She never answered it or made any calls.
10. She was afraid of riding down the hill in a car.
They had to walk to the market.
11. They walked down to the market in town.
Aunt Josephine bought ingredients for cold lime stew and chilled cucumber soup.
12. Violet went down an aisle to get cucumbers.
She ran into Captain Sham, who she knew was Count Olaf.
13. Couont Olaf was disguised as a sailor.
Aunt Josephine was fooled, and thought it would be nice to have him over for dinner.
14. Aunt Josephine thought grammar was the greatest joy in life.
She corrected everyone’s mistakes, no matter how small or important. She even corrected Sunny, who was too young to speak properly.
15. Aunt Josephine bought a doll for Violet, a train set for Klaus, and a rattle for Sunny. They did not like their gifts but thanked her.
They traded gifts. Sunny got the doll to bite, Klaus got the rattle, which he wasn’t happy with, and Violet got the model train set.
16. Violet had a love of engineering and inventing things.
She hoped she could create something to cook food with the model train set engine, that Aunt Jo wouldn’t be afraid of.
17. Aunt Josephine’s husband, Ike, died by being eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches.
Aunto Josephine was afraid of the lake.
18. Aunt Josephine is afraid of the lake.
She can only stand to look at it it through the curved, full-wall, wide window.
19. Aunt Josephine is terrified of realtors.
She refused to sell her home.

20. Captain Sham called, and Aunt Josephine answered the phone after Violet proved it was safe.
He said he had a surprise for the children, so Aunt Jo made the Baudelaires leave the room.
21. The kids heard shattering glass, and ran into the hallway.
They found a suicide note with many grammatical mistakes, written by Aunt Jo. Cold wind was blowing into the library, rattling the bookshelves.
22. There were many grammar errors in the note, and Aunt Josephine said that the greatest joy in life was grammar.
The orphans were confused that Aunt Jo would make so many mistakes.
23. Aunt Josephine had written in her note that the children would go to the care of Captain Sham.
The children called Mr. Poe, and he told them they would have to go to the care of Captain Sham. They then realized Captain Sham forged the note.
24.

They compared Aunt Jo’s grocery list to the note.
The note was written in the same handwriting as Aunt Josephine, so they went down to town with Mr. Poe, who they had called. Captain Sham was going to adopt them.
25. The children were allergic to peppermints, and they still had the bag of them.
Captain Sham, Mr. Poe, and the children met at the restaurant in town, “The Anxious Clown”. The food was terrible.
26. The children needed to buy themselves some time to figure things out.
They ate the peppermints, and convinced Mr. Poe to let them get a cab and go home alone.
27. Klaus figured out that the mistakes in the note sent a message.
He put the mistakes together, and it spelled “Curdled Cave”.
28. The children found an atlas of Lake Lachrymose under Aunt Jo’s bed.
They stole a boat from “Captain Sham Sailboats” and sailed to Curdled Cave.
29. They found Aunt Jo in Curdled Cave.
They convinced her to leave by telling her it was for sale and that there would be realtors.
30. The boat was being attacked by leeches, because Aunt Jo had eaten a banana.
Violet had to find a way to send a signal to other boats for help.
31. Captain Sham saw the signal.
He came to rescue the children and Aunt Jo.
32. He desperately wanted the Baudelaire

fortune.
He threw Aunt Jo overboard and she was attacked by the leeches.
33. Captain Sham took the children to the dock.
Sunny bit Captain Sham’s peg leg, and it revealed Count Olaf’s eye tattoo on his ankle.
34. Count Olaf got away.
The children were going to a new caretaker.
35. The children went to Lucky Smells Lumbermill, where they were working and living.
They met their caretaker, who called himself Sir, made an unfair deal that the children had to work for him to have a place to stay.
36. They met the employees and Foreman Flacutono.
The foreman was very mean, and woke everyone up by banging pots together. Phil was a nice employee who they befriended.
37. Foreman Flacutono purposely tripped Klaus, and he broke his glasses.
He had to go across the street to the strange eye shaped building, where Dr. Orwell worked.
38. Dr. Orwell hypnotized Klaus, and he came back very late and acting strange.
They got to work the next morning, and Klaus was running the stamping machine, a very large, heavy machine that stamped the company name onto the lumber.
39. Klaus set the stamper on the string machine, as well as Phil’s leg, and broke it.
Sir and Foreman Flacutono payed the employees in coupons, and the workers had two coupons for 50% off a cast. Phil went to the hospital to get a cast on.
40. Foreman Flacutono said, “Those can cost an inordinate amount of money!”.
Klaus went back to normal and defined inordinate.
41. Foreman Flacutono tripped Klaus again.
Klaus broke his glasses again, and Violet and Sunny took him to Dr. Orwell.
42. Klaus was hypnotized by Dr. Orwell yet again.
While Sunny and Violet were in the waiting room, they met Shirley, the receptionist, who they knew was Count Olaf.
43. They took Klaus home, and put him to bed.
Sir wrote a memo to the children, and it said that there shall be no more accidents.
45. Violet looked at the book in the library about optometry, and tried to understand the part about hypnotism.
She figured out that there was a specific word that could be used to snap someone out of a