Violet Beauregarde Essays

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Bad Beginning

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    I choose to represent A Series of Unfortunate Events because I found it interesting. I have seen the movie but never read the book before so I wanted to see what is it about, and I was completely amazed because the book is different from any other book I have read. It is written in easy-to-read language and almost every potentially new word is explained through the conversations. Events are weird and sometimes confusing, and everything is different and hard to explain but that is why people like

  • 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

  • Summary of The Austere Academy

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    Summary of 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

  • The Grim Grotto: Elements of Fiction

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    huge submarine just for a sugar bowl. You also know this because many characters, such as Captain Widdershins, Count Olaf and Quigley Quagmire say that this object is too important and secretive to reveal its purpose. The climax of this book is when Violet Klaus and Sunny are walking to the taxi parting with Mr. Poe. This is the climax of the book because this was the highest point of interest and appeal. The author, Lemony Snicket, uses details and delays the end to an extent where you become very

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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    series of unfortunate 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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    message pointed out a place, somewhere near Lake Lachrymose, and it was possibly where Aunt Josephine was. The children immediately went down the hill towards the dock. There, they realized that there was no way they could reach Aunt Josephine. Then, Violet remembered Captain Sham's business, sailboat rentals. They decided to steal one and they took off. Another problem arose- Aunt Josephine did not want to go back to Damocles Dock with them. She was afraid of the leeches that inhibit the lake. But she

  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Greed

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    for the tour, one that he will reveal only after the children in the group display their true colours. The tale contains biblical world views, such as the seven deadly sins, which consist of greed which is seen through Veruca Salt, pride in Violet Beauregarde, gluttony in Augustus Gloop, Sloth in Mike Teavee, envy in Grandpa Joe, wrath in Willy Wonka and Lust in Charlie Bucket. The bible states nothing about the seven deadly sins or even deadly sins in general. It is said that all sins, even the

  • Charlie Wonka Movie Comparison Essay

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    Many books get adapted into movies, but very few get two movies made after them. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), directed by Mel Stuart and Tim Burton, respectively, are two different alterations of Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). Both versions follow the similar plot of five children finding a Golden Ticket that enables them to tour Mr. Wonka’s chocolate factory and compete for the grand prize. As the movies

  • Willie Wonka Thesis

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    character that is in the movie, We were the understudies for our characters.But we each remember all of our lines. Kara is Veruca Salt,Daddy I want another pony Gabrielle is Augustus Gloop.Don't make me run, I'm full of chocolate! And I am Violet beauregarde,Look mother, I'm much more flexible now. And this is our presentation over the 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Raise of hands, how many of you would like to become a blueberry? No noone. Goals are the object of a person's ambition

  • Similarities Between Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

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    around and he buys her anything that she wants. That is also a big part in how she won the golden ticket, her dad bought lots and lots of chocolate bars and paid people to open all of them. The last of the deadly sins is pride, represented by Violet Beauregarde. In the movie the audience can tell the she thinks very highly of herself. She explains to the interviewers that she has broken many records. She also explains why she has been chewing gum for the past several months. She says it is the longest

  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory And Willy Wonka Similarities

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    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Vs Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” are both amazing movies about a poor boy who somehow gets lucky and meets Willy Wonka himself. They both have the same main idea but there are a few differences about the settings, how the characters look like, and what happens to them. The older one (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) was made in the year of 1971, and the new one (Charlie

  • The Success of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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    In September, 1964, Alfred A. Knoff published what rapidly became one of the best-loved children’s books of the twentieth century, British author Roald Dahl’s children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl’s second children’s novel. His first, James and the Giant Peach, was published in 1961. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was successful despite the publication in 1964 of other children’s books that would become popular as well. These included Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Emily