Your life will be much more gratifying if you stop reading this immediately . Look off , we implore you , for what postdate are a few unworthy fact about one of the most unfortunate narrator to ever retell a tale .
" A Series of Unfortunate result " is a 13 - bookchildren ’s seriesin which an intrusive narrator known as Lemony Snicket recounts the fateful lives of the Baudelaire baby — Violet , Klaus and Sunny — who are orphaned after a mysterious house fire .
The Baudelaire kid are subsequently worry for by several defender , including a villainous and distant congenator named Count Olaf who frequently essay to steal their destiny . In addition , there is a mysterious organization get it on as the Volunteer Fire Department ( VFD ) with machination affecting the lifetime of nearly every eccentric in the serial publication .
Throughout the book ( and later , Netflix ) serial publication , the luckless Lemony Snicket endures a string of effect " darker thana pitch - black panther , covered in Jack-tar , eating Glycyrrhiza glabra at the very bottom of the deep part of the Black Sea , " some of which we will set about to document for you .
Still here ? Very well . stimulate yourself for misery and suffering ( and perhaps a few spoilers ) .
1. He Had An Unfortunate Upbringing
Lemony Snicket ’s past is peppered into each of the " A Series of Unfortunate Events " book , as well as a fellow traveler serial publication , " All the Wrong Questions , " yet reader still do n’t have a exonerated video of his early years .
It seems readers memorize a novel bit of information , but are left with their own assumptions and inferences regardingLemony Snicketand his past lifetime , as well as his role as the Baudelaire family ’s unpaid historian .
" In the first ' All the Wrong Questions ' book , ' Who Could That Be At This Hour , ' Lemony is a 13 - year - honest-to-goodness male child having a repast with his mob — which is chop-chop revealed not to be his tangible family and also potentially members of an organization that may desire to kill him , " emails Lauren West , a copywriter and creative from Southern California who has been a fan of the books since puerility . " There ’s a mess we can think or assert here — that possibly he was shoot as a baby by this organisation , and perchance when he was 13 he decided to take his life back into his own helping hand . "
Whatever the case , be it kidnapping or infantrecruitment , Snicket ’s life is inexorably connect with the Baudelaires and at least one privy organization .
2. An Unfortunate Sign In the Form of a Tattoo
How to continue with this tale of suffering ? Perhaps with an unfortunate sign — in the shape of an oculus - shapedtattoo .
This tattoo of a stylized centre come along on the left ankle of Volunteer Fire Department ( VFD ) members , a secret organization that is entangle in many of the events that befall Lemony Snicket , and of course , the Baudelaire orphan .
The tattoo , as alert reviewer have discover , has the initials " VFD " hidden in its excogitation . Consequently , the " eye " tattoo is one of the many secret codes used by this secret society . It also is relied on by the Baudelaire orphans to distinguish VFD members , including the dastardly Count Olaf who often appear in ( badly execute ) disguise .
Near the destruction of the serial , Snicket reveals that he , too , has a VFD optic tattoo on his left ankle just as Count Olaf does . It may be a easing , however , to be reassured that Lemony Snicket is still one of the good guys .
3. An Indelicate Rift Occurred
So , every VFD penis has been outfitted with a permanent " eye " tattoo , and this symbolic ink was in place long before the VFD split into two unfortunate sect . Although little is know about the VFD ’s mysteriousbeginnings , it has been let on that the all - volunteer chemical group was founded to extinguish fire , both of the genuine and nonliteral mixed bag . The aim , so it seems , was to keep the world on an even keel , quietly hum along .
Then an unfortunate argument happened , possibly involving the arrangement ’s motif or Count Olaf ’s greedy nature or the theft of a loot bowl . Subsequently , the VFD split into two , creating one mathematical group that still sought to put out fires and one group that sought to have them . The two chemical group remain bitterenemies .
" It would be exciting to see Snicket take on another series about the organization before the great ' split ' that part multitude like Count Olaf and Snicket and even the Baudelaires ' parent , " say West . " But I have a impression there are some mysteries Lemony Snicket would care to leave best to our own hyperactive imaginativeness . "
4. He Is an Unforgettable Narrator
Perhaps one of Snicket ’s most unforgettable trait , away from sporting an centre tattoo on his ankle , is his particular style as anarrator . He frequently hesitate the floor he is telling to delineate words for youthful reader in a mode that is both arch and parodying of children ’s Bible that treat the reader as being supremely dim .
" I liked Lemony himself because he ’s the Graeco-Roman treacherous narrator , " says KarenDybis , a Detroit , Michigan - free-base newsperson and generator of four nonfiction Christian Bible , who read the series to her tiddler . " The book are intelligently write , full of whimsy and extremely lively . The tales of the Baudelaire orphans are compelling yet silly at the same time . Children can come to to their trouble and parents can enjoy the fantastic storytelling , great wordsmithing and smart lexicon used throughout . "
Not that you ’ll see Snicket in populace anytime soon . He is notoriously absent from record loss parties , readings and speak engagements , for the most part because of his continued probe into the Baudelaire family secrets .
" My kids enjoy the stories more because of his dark tone , " Dybis says . " Everyone laughed at the strange tales he tells , yet he has a sensitiveness to kids and the challenge they face that have kids feel understood through these books . "
Snicket ’s youngest fans , who are repeatedly tell not to expect a happy ending to these tales of woefulness , witness characters close to their own ages weather dreadful fortune and , significantly , bank on their own agency to hold out . It ’s a life lesson deserving recapitulate .
