Lemony Snicket is the main character of this book. It is kind of like an autobiography but its not all true facts. The other major characters are the volunteers of V.F.D.. There are many minor characters that were in the books. Each chapter had their own minor characters. The antagonist were everybody that was trying to figure out where V.F.D. was. The setting of this book was all of the places in the other books. Each chapter had letters from a person in that number of the book, ex. book 3 chapter 3. It is actually just a fictional place that nobody knows where at. Each person that writes a letter to Lemony and tells a little bit about where they are at. Based on the pictures and telegraphs that they used I think that …show more content…
Lemony Snicket describes how his writing life came to be. He grew up near a dairy farm. So whenever he would write an entry in his diary, he would write Dear Dairy instead. It tells you what each of the chapters are about. The next part tells how he became a member of V.F.D.. When he was a little boy, somebody came into his house and picked him up by his feet. They took him to a different country, then brought him back. Many letters were written back and forth between his siblings and other people. The climax of this story would be when Lemony Snicket finds out that he died. People everywhere wanted him dead for some reason. He went to his own grave service and there were tons of people. People heard about it through the Daily Punctilio, a not very reliable newspaper. That is why he wrote the rest of the book. He didn’t want to lose it all. This book ended by him putting pictures in and wondering what they meant. He wanted to find a way to get Dr. Montgomery’s house, or around there. Lemony Snicket wanted to find what happend to all of his snakes. At the end it kind of tells you information you really don’t need to know about. It ends with some common questions about
In the book the main characters are Jay Berry, Daisy, Rowdy, Grandpa, and the monkeys. The secondary characters are Ma, Pa, Grandma, and Sally Goodin. The beginning started with Jay telling about how his family moved to the Cherokee hills. The book ended with Jay giving his money to Daisy to fix her leg. In the end he ended up getting his pony and twenty-two as well. Money was a problem for Daisy up until the end of the book. There
The Book Itch is a historical fiction book meant to inform us about a real place and real events in Harlem, New York. The audience of the book is children ages 7-9 because although it is a picture book it talks of an assassination and most kids around this age would still be learning about what assassinations are. The entire story is an allusion because the story is set in a real bookstore in a real place. It has small allusions in it such as when Muhammad Ali visited the bookstore and when it talks about how Malcolm X speaks at his father's shop. However the most prominent allusion is when Malcolm X is assassinated because it is referencing an
In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, young Louie Zamperini is the troublemaker of Torrance, California. After his life had taken a mischievous turn, his older brother, Pete, managed to convert his love of running away, into a passion for running on the track. At first, Louie’s old habit of smoking gets the best of him, and it is very hard for him to compare to the other track athletes. After a few months of training, coached by Pete, Louie begins to break high school records, and became the fastest high school miler in 1934. After much more hard work, goes to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 but is no match for the Finnish runners. He trains hard for the next Olympic Games, and hopes to beat the four minute
The prediction to the ending of the novel is that the story, he is telling, is a dream. On page 11 he says, "I called in Dr. Pillsbury. H...
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 anxious to read the story.
The author starts off the chapter by writing about a man named Carl N. Karcher. He is known as the founder of the fast food restaurant called Carl’s Jr. He dropped out of school at the age of 14 and a few years later, his uncle offered him a job in a city in California called Anaheim. One of the themes is workforce because he was an employee for his uncle. He was a very good worker at his uncle's work place. He once spotted a woman who he was attracted to and he asked her out for ice cream. He soon changed his job and started to work elsewhere. Carl married the women (Margaret) a few years laters and they had their first child.
Protagonists: The main characters are Megan and Charles. Megan and Charles are in the book most of the time thats why there the main characters. Their relationship is that they are family and they live together. Charles and Megan are also friends. In the story Megan and Charles are always there for eachother.
In the beginning of the book, it starts off in London where Ada and Jamie lived with their mom, but there were buses taking kids to the countryside of England because of the war. In the countryside, jamie and Ada are placed in a household with a woman named Susan who
The antagonist of the novel – he is the offender who shot and killed his classmates, as well as injuring 19 others at his school, Sterling High.
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
Jules Verne was a family man who loved his wife and children, but also had a true passion for writing. He spent much of his time with his beloved spouse of thirty years and his three children that he loved deeply. When he wrote he would be inspired by the travels that he took with his family.
A brief summary of the book begins when they explain what happened to the father. The father, Mr. Fink, died in a car accident a few months
The setting of Huckleberry Finn was in mid Eighteenth Century America. The first few chapters were set in St. Petersburg, Missouri. The town was patterned after Hannibal, Missouri, where Clemens spent his childhood. It is located on the Mississippi River about 80 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the novel’s setting is on the Mississippi River south of St. Petersburg.
When he returns to Paris, he goes to Jack’s office and asks him to come with him to South America.
Beginning: Jared, Simon, Mollary, and his mother Helen moved from the big city, to a mansion that was in a forest because their mom divorced. All the family where happy except Jared he was very mad because he didn’t wanted to move. They start looking the house and all the windows where cover with salt and where a lot of pictures of his Aunt Lucinda. Jared goes to the attic where it was a study. In the study, Jared finds book titled: "Arthur Spider wick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World around You." Jared reads the book, it was a warning that say don’t read it. In the book shows how Arthur Spiderwick spend his life imagining invisible creatures. He reveals how some are kind, and how some are evil.