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Character analysis Klaus Baudelaire Mariana Arroyo Klaus Baudelaire is the middle sibling of the Baudelaire orphans and the main protagonist in the thirteen-book series “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” He’s the younger brother of Violet Baudelaire and the older brother of Sunny Baudelaire. After losing his parents in a horrible fire and later being put in the care of the villain Count Olaf, Klaus and his sisters are determined to learn all about the secret organization of VFD and what actually caused the fire leading to their parents deaths. Klaus is extremely intelligent for someone who’s a little older than twelve years old (at the beginning of the series). A running gag in the series is when someone explains what a word means, and he replies, "I/we know what [word] means.". Klaus is known for being the introvert, researcher, and reader of the siblings. Although his sisters are also pretty smart, he’s the one who explains to them what a certain word means and is able to remember what he reads, no matter how complicated it is, thanks to his photographic memory. He thrives on reading good books, and his dream job is to be a researcher one day. Herman Melville is one of his favorite authors, and he particularly enjoys "the way Melville dramatizes the plight of overlooked people, such as poor sailors or exploited youngsters, through his strange, often experimental philosophical prose.". He also admires Hammurabi. …show more content…

Charles Baudelaire was a poet who lived in France during the 19th century. He was a man plagued with many misfortunes and disastrous events, similar to the unfortunate lives of the Baudelaire children. Although there’s not much information about why the author decided to create this character, we do know he was inspired by the poet Charles

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