by Aseem Gupta | Oct 31, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter novels can be read as seven adventures, but their larger design becomes clearer when they are treated as one continuous story. What begins with an eleven-year-old boy discovering that he is a wizard gradually reveals itself as the...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 29, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
A Series of Unfortunate Events begins with a catastrophe so abrupt that it seems to establish the rules of the entire story. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire go to Briny Beach, learn that their parents have died in a fire that destroyed their home, and are placed...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 27, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2006 as the thirteenth and final installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The End begins where The Penultimate Peril leaves Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire: fugitives from a burning hotel, adrift at sea with Count Olaf, uncertain whether anyone...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 25, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
By the twelfth book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire have survived murderous guardians, corrupt institutions, disastrous schools, burning hospitals, treacherous mountains, and a long pursuit by Count Olaf. They have also changed....
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 23, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Grim Grotto is the eleventh book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and it arrives at a point when the Baudelaire children’s story has become much larger than their struggle to escape Count Olaf. By now, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are entangled in...
