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Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital By Lemony Snicket

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Book: Series of unfortunate events: The Hostile Hospital (book 8) Author: Lemony Snicket Genre: Realistic Fiction/Adventure From chapters one to three, I made a couple of predictions. I think that Mr. Poe, the person whom the 3 Baudelaire siblings decided to contact for help, is not going to reply to the message from their telegram. In the message, they stated that they were accused of murdering someone when it wasn’t true, so they needed to acquire some help from Mr. Poe. I think this because in the other books from these series, Mr. Poe was in charge of taking care of their protection but never really did a good job. Frankly, the Baudelaires were quite annoyed that it was all due to his clumsiness and disbelief in the children’s remarkings. Since Mr. Poe was clumsy, he probably wouldn’t notice the telegram and would leave the children hanging, without even knowing it. If on the other hand he did, he wouldn’t believe the message and would leave the children alone, or even worse, in jail, for something they never did, but nevertheless were accused of doing. Although both are possible, it’s most likely that he just won’t …show more content…

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