The Bad Beginning review

The Bad beginning

Lemony Snicket

This book is about 3 kids called Violet, Klaus and Sunny.They are rich,but one day their parents,and their house go up in flames while the kids are at the beach.

Then a friend called Mr Poe came and told them about the incident the kids were heart broken. Mr Poe took them for one night but then he had to go to work so he dropped them off at an unknown uncle called Count Olaf.

When the Children got there they thought that the nice next door neighbor was Count Olaf’s house but unfortunately it was the next house along!                                                                

The next house along was very dark and had a big eye on the door. Once they got in they got shown to their rooms, and they were not pleased that they had to share the room between 3 of them.

Sunny got the curtain folded into a bed shape, Klaus and Violet had to share the bed so one night Violet would be in the bed and Klaus on the flore then the next the other way around. They could not decide what was more comfortable.

The Following morning they had to do heaps of chores.Then that night they had to cook dinner for Count Olaf and his friends, but they had no experience with cooking so they got the next door neighbor (Justice Strauss) to help them serve roast beef, but they ended up doing a type of pasta.

The next day they went to see Mr Poe about how mean Count Olaf was being to them and all he said was "he is like a father to you now".So the kids went back home and went to bed.

But what happened was that Mr Poe told Count Olaf,so he made breakfast for them and put them in his play.But Violet was the bride to Count Olaf. Violet was not very happy about that. It was bad enough he was their father with out being a husband as well .

Just to make Sure that she would marry him, he put Sunny in a cage and put her out the highest window in the house.That night Violet had a plan ,first she cut the curtain wire into two pieces, then in her cardboard closet she had some clothes that she would never wear, and cut them up into long stripes which got tied together to be 30 feet long.

She tries to throw it and get it stuck so that she can climb up it, but it keeps falling down. Finally it got stuck, she climbed up it and found out what it was stuck on. It was on the hooked mans hand. Violet was not allowed back down incase she tried something else. It was the day for the wedding play, ( Violet came up with another plan ) the play started it was the bit where she had to sign the contract to get married.  Count Olaf stopped the play and announced Violet was his WIFE.

Violet said she signed with her left hand  so they are no longer married , by that time Sunny was safe. You would think that they could go to the nice ladies house and live happly ever after, but she was not in their family so they had to go with Mr Poe and go to a different family member     THE END!!!

By Sophie D