reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” This is the first thing you read when you open up A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, a thirteen book series that essentially changed my life. The year was either 2007 or 2008. It’s hard to remember specifics. I was in the third grade at Hildebran Elementary School. I absolutely adored my homeroom. My teacher was Mrs. Raines
books. He believes far too many of them are overly sweet and happy. He also thinks many of them are unrealistic and misleading. He believes children enjoy stories in which something scary or unfortunate occurs.” Daniel Handler also known as Lemony Snicket is the famous author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events. As a child he was bullied and mistreated. This influenced his writing because he writes stories with tragic endings and terrible disasters. Daniel Handler's life stories might have been
Shadow of a Doubt, a 1943 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, begins with Uncle Charlie lying on his bed in deep thought. The landlady informs Charlie that the two men waiting at the corner were waiting for him, and Charlie quickly gathers his items and flees. The two men follow him around corners and past alleyways. Once Charlie is sure he has lost them, he stops at a pay phone booth and sends a telegram to his sister in Santa Rosa, California, telling her that he will visit in
Lemony Snicket once stated, “Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make -- bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake -- if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.” In the story, The Soul of Caliban, Leon 's wife was always making assumptions about Caliban, leading Leon to judge Caliban and then regretting listening to his wife 's assumption. I think this quote proves that once you assume things, bad things can lead to happen