The Hostile Hospital (2001) (edit title/settings)

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• Violet Baudelaire: The eldest Baudelaire who is probably the finest fourteen-year old inventor in the world, and she always tied her hair up in a ribbon when she had to solve a problem.
• Klaus Baudelaire: The middle Baudelaire Klaus had a real knack for remembering nearly every word of nearly all of the thousands of books he had read.
• Sunny Baudelaire: Sunny was a baby, and as with most babies different parts of her were going at different rates. She had only four teeth, for example, but each of them was as sharp as that of an adult lion, and although she had recently learned to walk, Sunny was still getting the hang of speaking in a way adults could understand. Her siblings, however know at once what she means.
• Mr. Poe: Mr. Poe was the man who is in charge of the Baudelaire fortune. Although he was trying to be helpful to the orphans, he really wasn't much good when it came to their protection.he coughs alot.
• Count Olaf: The person who is trying to gain the Baudelaire fortune. The evil person in this book.
• Babs: The Head of Human Resources at the hospital.
• Hal: An old man in charge of the hospital's Library of Records.
• Esmé Squalor: Count Olaf's girlfriend and the city's sixth most important financial advisor.
• Mattathias: Add a description of this character.
• Laura V. Bleediotie: Violet Baudelaire.
• Dr. Tocuna: one of count olafs associates.
• Nurse Flo: A surgical nurse at the Heimlich Hospital
• O. Lucafont: Count Olaf's name all scrambled up.
• Flacutuno
• Mr. Sirin: A lepidoptorist who has been to jail fives times. An associate of Mr. Snicket.
• Hope
• Lou

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• “I'm coming for you.”

  Esme

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• “Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said, which was something she had said only once before. It meant something along the lines of “I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of what is going on,”

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• Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee, Hope you get well soon. Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, Have a heart-shaped balloon.

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• We are Volunteers Fighting Disease, And we’re cheerful all day long. If someone said that we were sad, That person would be wrong. We visit people who are sick, And try to make them smile, Even if their noses bleed, Or if they cough up bile.

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• the only trace I have of those happy days is the tattoo on my left ankle.

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• And I would hop like nobody has ever hopped before, if I could somehow go back to that terrible Thursday, and stop Beatrice from attending that afternoon tea where she met Esmé Squalor for the first time.

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• than you should run into the street and throw yourself under the wheels of a bus STOP. This “stop”-ended sentence is your very last chance to pretend the “STOP” warning is a stop sign, and to stop the flood of despair that awaits you in this book, the heart-stopping horror that begins in the very next sentence, by obeying the “STOP” and stopping STOP.

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• Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor?

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• “Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of “I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of what is going on.” Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Heimlich Hospital
• Last Chance General Store

Organizations edit see section history

• VFD: A mysterious organization that seems intertwined with the lives of the Baudelaire orphans.

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Preceded by The Vile Village, and followed by The Carnivorous Carnival.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lemony Snicket (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

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• Library of Congress: PZ7.S6795 Ho 2001
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( S ) › Snicket, Lemony

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• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (IMDb): 2004, this movie is based on the first three books of the series.

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