The Bad Beginning (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of The Bad Beginning Saturday, October 31 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Tim Snicket: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Shelfari’s request to change the contributors of The Bad Beginning Saturday, October 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: Tim Snicket: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of The Bad Beginning Saturday, October 31 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Tim Snicket: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Bad Beginning Friday, October 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Tim Snicket: (Primary None)

Joshua approved 97% of Timothy Gray’s request to combine 41 books, including The Bad Beginning, Friday, October 30 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

sammi v edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Bad Beginning Sunday, October 18 2009.

• Edited: A series of unfortunate eventsa unplesent story

sammi v edited the summary of The Bad Beginning Sunday, October 18 2009.

• about kids who parents die and they had to live with count olaf who waas trying to get their money did not treat them well the baudelaire parents left them alot of money and count olaf wanted it they try to tell mr poe about count olaf but he does not belive them clause is verry smart and likes to read violet likes to invented stuff and sunney like to chew on stuff they were on the beach and mr poe came over to tell them there parents died they dided in a fire were there hole house was burt down

sammi v edited the summary of The Bad Beginning Sunday, October 18 2009.

• The story begins with Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire at Briny Beach. Mr. Poe, a friend of the Baudelaire parents and the executor of their affairs, arrives. He tells them that the Baudelaire mansion has been destroyed in a fire and that Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire are dead. Mr. Poe brings them to his house house and his wife buys them incredibly itchy clothing.

  The Baudelaire children are taken to their new guardian Count Olaf, who is a distant relative. Count Olaf treats them horribly: he forces them to do all his cleaning and cooking and provides them with only one bed to sleep in. Count Olaf also refers to them as "orphans" instead of "children".

  Olaf's theater troupe is coming to his house and he orders the orphans to prepare dinner for them all. However, the siblings do not have any ingredients. Also, Count Olaf left them only a little bit of money to buy ingredients. In search of help, they visit Olaf's nice neighbor, Justice Strauss, who promptly invites them inside. After finding instructions in a cookbook, they buy the ingredients to make Pasta Puttanesca. When the troupe arrives, Olaf is outraged that they did not make roast beef. When Klaus retorts to a comment by the Count, Olaf slaps him, leading to applause from the troupe. The next day the children visit Mr. Poe at his bank in order to get help, and Mr. Poe explains to them that Olaf may be simply adjusting to a father's life. When the children return, Olaf tells them that Mr. Poe talked to him about their troubles, causing Olaf to force the orphans to act in The Marvelous Marriage by the great playwright Al Funcoot (an anagram of "Count Olaf"). Olaf will play the groom, Violet will be the bride, and Klaus and Sunny will be cheering people in the audience.

  Klaus spends all night reading about nuptial law, hoping to learn how they can foil Olaf's plans to take their fortune; he discovers that two people can be married if they sign a document and state their wedding vows in the presence of a legal judge. Olaf plans to marry Violet during the play in the presence of Justice Strauss in order to gain control of the fortune, but when Klaus accuses him of this, Olaf only laughs. It is at this point that Violet and Klaus discover that Olaf has trapped Sunny in a birdcage suspended from the roof of his house. Count Olaf tells them that one of his henchmen kidnapped Sunny while they were sleeping. He warns them that if they do not cooperate during the play, the cage will be opened, sending Sunny to her death.

  That night, Violet invents a grappling hook and reaches the top of the tower. However, she is received by the hook-handed man, who traps Violet and Klaus there until the play. During the play, Violet signs the marriage document with her left hand to invalidate the bill. Olaf is supposed to go to prison but he escapes when an associate turns off the theater lights. In the darkness, Olaf grabs Violet's shoulder and tells her that he will be back for the fortune and will kill them all. After this, Olaf escapes. Justice Strauss tells the children that she will adopt them. However, before the Baudelaire parents died, they stated that the children would be raised by a family member in the event of their deaths. As Justice Strauss waves good-bye, Mr. Poe's car (with them inside) drives away.

  source: Wikipedia

maryum m edited the characters of The Bad Beginning Thursday, September 10 2009.

• Edited the description of Count Olaf: I think that Count Olaf is a character that has a personality of greedyness and rudeness. To proof he is greedy, in the story Count Olafs aim is mainly to have all the power of the Baudelaires fortune and be extremely rich for it. Also to proof that he is rude and mean, in the story he goes to his work, but also leaves a list of chores for the childeren and slaps them on the faces.
• Edited the description of Violet Baudelaire: I think that Violet Baudelaire is a chracter that has a personality of incouarging people, is trustfull and is caring. To proof Violet is encouarging there is a part in the story where Voilet and Klaus start to loose hope, but then she starts to encourage herself and her brother and they both still have som hope left. To proof that violet is always trustful there is a pat in the story where she remembers her promise that she made with her parents that she would look after her siblings and always stay with them. Lastly to proof that Voiet is caring there is a part in the story where one of her sibling is captured in a cage a though there is danger to save him she still risks herself and goes up to save him.
• Edited the description of Klaus Baudelaire: I think that Klaus Baudelaire is a character that has a personality same as Voilet, but he is also helpful. To prof that he is helpful in the story there is a part where he stays awake all night just to see if he can seek any help from the book of laws.
• Edited the description of Sunny Baudelaire: I think that the authour just encluded Sunny Baudelaire as a character beacause he wanted the story to have a little mixture of happyness and sadness so he thought maybe a maybe would make it fun scince younger kids impress stories in which you need some laughter.
• Edited the description of Mr. Poe: I think that the main role of Mr. Poe in the story was to help the Baudelaire kids to get out of troubles and help solve them.
• Edited the description of Justice Strauss: I thik that the main role of Justice Strauss was also to help the Baudelaire kids to get out of trouble and help solve them, but it wasn't her who helped it was her liabrary of every kinds of books.

Hunter B edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Bad Beginning Tuesday, September 8 2009.

• Added: A series of unfortunate events