A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning follows the story of three children and all of the horrible things that occur in their life after their parents' death. The story starts in a place called Briny Beach. The main protagonists in this story are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. They lived with their wealthy parents in an elegant mansion and led happy lives… Until one awful day when their worlds turned upside-down. Violet, the oldest of the three Baudelaires is 14 years old. She likes to brainstorm and build inventions according to the text on page 3. Violet is very mature and looks out for her brother and sister. Violet is right-handed, like most people. She has long hair that she ties up when thinking, and …show more content…
Poe works and complain about their horrible lives. Unfortunately, Mr. Poe had many calls and didn't hear what they were saying. As a result, he informed Count Olaf that they were complaining. The Baudelaires walk home without any luck. The next day, Count Olaf invites them to participate in his play along with his troupe called The Marvelous Marriage. He asks Violet to play the woman that he marries in the play, but the children are a little bit suspicious. So, they borrow some law books from Justice Strauss. After reading Nuptial Law all night, Klaus finds out what Count Olaf's plan, which was to actually marry Violet and take control of the Baudelaire Fortune. He tells Count Olaf, who acts calmly, then explains to Violet. When Klaus was about to wake up Sunny, he realized that she was missing on page 101. Count Olaf reveals where Sunny is; she is gagged and trapped in a birdcage that is hanging from a tower. On page 107, Violet pleads with Count Olaf to let Sunny go and says that she will do anything. So, Count Olaf asks her to marry him in order to let Sunny out safely. Soon, Violet has an idea on how to get Sunny out of the
...seems to have endured the most in his life. Not only did he spend his youth caring for his sick mother and then wife, but he now must live in the painful memory of how his life could have been if the accident never happened. The end of the book leaves the readers saddened and frustrated. Though the novella began with a plotline seemingly leading to an ending as cheery as that of Snow White, in the end, this beautiful maiden turned sour. In this storybook tragedy, “the lovers do not live happily ever after. The witch wins” (Ammons 1).
The characters in Twelfth Night each play an important and specific role, especially when it comes to interfering or setting fate for romantic interests. Not all characters get a happy ending, and a particular character’s husband turned out to be someone much different than who she believed to be marrying. Through dishonesty, confusion, and chicanery, each character had a helping hand in dishing out each other’s fate, but nonetheless, the relationships that resulted in a law binding marriage beat destiny and overcame every hardship standing in the way of love and happiness.
This malady, her scar, makes her physically grotesque, much like Joy/Hulga in O’Connor’s “Good Country People.” She has never been beautiful, and that is one of the deepest desires of her heart. While on the bus ride, she picks apart other people’s features as though she’s shopping; she wants that person’s hair or those eyes and that nose, all features to make her more beautiful after her scar gets healed. This desire to be a beauty is also a kind of grotesque quality, as is her loneliness and need to be loved; she wants it so badly it nearly overwhelms her personality and is all that she can thing about. Like Joy/Hulga, she is lonely in the lifestyle she lives, and is looking for someone to love her. Just like Hulga befriended Manly Pointer, so Violet befriends Monty, but with more favorable events than Joy/Hulga’s newfound friendship. Monty truly seems to love Violet; in the end of the story when she comes back from Tulsa
Bad Boy, chapter 5, Walter begins talking about the “summer of 1947”. On page 35, Walter says,” The summer of 1947 was one of eager anticipation for black people across the across the country”. “Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby, two black players from the all-black Negro Leagues, had finally been accepted into major-league baseball. Walter is probably happy because he sees a change in African American culture. Walter talks about him and his friends try to hang Richard, a boy who had hurt his eyes while staring at the sun. Walter says he and Johnny, his friend, reads an article in the “Amsterdam News” about a black man who had been lynched by hanging. So, they decided to hang Richard. Reverend Abbott, the pastor, walked by and seen the boys
energy" (Wright 267). The reason Olaf could not shake off his hatred for Jim was that Lena was not scared of Jim like he was. Olaf did not like how Jim instilled fear in him. He did not like how Lena handled Jim like she stated before coming over to the hotel. He also did not like the idea that he was the only one that was scared of this huge black man. All of the things running through Olaf's head were another reason he came to hate Jim.
The short story is generally a study in human terror. Furthermore, the author explains Poe use of a particular style and technique, to not only create the mood of mystery, but to cause the reader to feel sympathy for the narrator. Poe makes a connection between the storyteller and reader with knowledge and literary craftsmanship.
Chris Crutcher, author of the short story “Fourth and Too Long”, demonstrates how important it is for players and coaches to have a mutual respect for each other on and off of the field. Over the course of the story, the main character, Benny struggles to find respect for himself as well as the coaches of his high school football team. Identically, the coaches lack respect for him as well. Benny woods is being penalized from playing football due to the length of his hair and his decision not to cut it. In the 1960’s long hair was said to have represented being a member of the hippie community. “It sends a message that the rest of the team can do any damn thing they want. First it’s the hair, then...who knows what”(160) is what Coach Greene
Summary: This story is about three orphan children: Claus, Violet, and Sunny Baudelaire. These three siblings became orphans when their mother and father passed away in a fire. This fire not only destroyed the people they loved the most, but it destroyed their home and all of their belongings along with it. As the children find a temporary home with a family friend, they are soon passed off to a distant family member, Count Olaf. What they don’t know yet is that Count Olaf is after the fortune that the siblings parents have left behind for them. In the effort to regain a normal lifestyle, the siblings find it near impossible as Count Olaf treats them more like slaves than children. Count Olaf concocts a plan to marry Violet in order to have
The narrator in Poe’s short story got away with the perfect murder and was able to live in peace for several years without worry until the thought of not telling his secret started to become the only thought on his mind. He knew that
One marriage that emerges as a source of comedic relief throughout the novel is Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. The Bennets find a way to argue over everything and in most cases Mr. Bennet causes the argument just to spite Mrs. Bennet. Their arguments raise numerous
The warm night air smelled of curried chicken and strong coffee. It wafted over Lance Richards as he clung to the bricks of the brownstone, listening. He had been watching the apartment for two weeks, had seen the third man leave minutes ago, but in his line of work it was good to be cautious. Like a black shadow he clambered onto the rickety fire-escape, then squatted poised, flexing his gloved fingers, before sliding the unlocked window higher.
In the beginning of the story, with an extensive and vivid description of the house and its vicinity, Poe prepares the scene for a dreadful, bleak, and distempered tale. The setting not only affects Poe’s narration of the story but influences the characters and their actions as well. Both the narrator and his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher, question w...
Poe builds suspense throughout the story, revealing some facts while withholding others. He deliberately leaves out these details forcing us to place the relationship between the wife and the narrator in our mind. By doing so, we then inject our own personal details, in order to relate to the wife, and even the narrator, on an intimate level. We all desire a happy and safe home life. Poe takes that basic human need for safety and security and drops it the hands of a madman. Poe allows the narrator to invite us directly into his twisted mind. The suspense increases when we fear that the home can be an unsafe place. The narrator then leads us down his path of drunkenness, violence and insanity, dragging behind him his poor wife and his beloved pets.
...e opens the door. When he found himself opening the door, he saw nothing but darkness. And this is the point where he figures that there is nothing out there. I think the reason Poe was so afraid, reflects back on Lenore. I understood Lenore to be Poe’s love at some point in his life. He’s been so depressed, that all he thinks about is her, but then again, he is also trying to forget about her at the same time. And when he first heard the sounds of rustling, he might of thought it could be the spirit of Lenore. I think this was the reason for him to have been so afraid. Poe drew a lot of his ideas and images into his own imagination. And the images he had of Lenore, was not making him feel any better. I think that most of Poe’s thoughts and feelings all came from his mind, and not his heart.
To give a little background on the play, the pursuit of marriage is the driving force behind the play. “I now pronounce you, man and wife.” This traditional saying, commonly used to announce a newlywed couple during a wedding ceremony, marks the happily ever after that many dream of today. In today’s society, marriage is an expression of love between two individuals. Marriage has not, however, always been an act of love.