He is not your closest relative on the family tree, but he is the closest geographically.” “He is either a third cousin four times removed, or a fourth cousin three times removed. “But our parents never mentioned Count Olaf to us. ![]() We do get confirmation that Count Olaf, Monty and Josephine are related to the Baudelaire orphans: Tonight you will stay with me in my home, and tomorrow I shall go to the bank and figure out what to do with you. Poe said, “and I thank Justice Strauss for her generosity, but your parents’ will is very specific. “Without Justice Strauss, we would have lost our lives.” ![]() “We never would have figured out Count Olaf’s plan without her and her library,” Klaus said. “After all Justice Strauss has done for us?” “I’m sorry to tell you this, children, but I cannot allow you to be raised by someone who is not a relative.” "Wait a minute,” he said, looking down at the floor. This one is invoked as soon as Justice Strauss asks to raise the Baudelaire orphans herself: INCONSISTENCY #1: The children must be raised by a relative. Yes, even by Lemony Snicket’s zany absurdist standards. There are, indeed, a number of things about the will which make absolutely no sense. That would be crazy, right? But there is a story there. Poe hiding the original will from the Baudelaire orphans? Did he forge a new one so they would end up in the claws of their parents’ mortal enemy? “Yes, ” Olaf said with a scowl, “although at the time he was better known under his stage name. “The adoption papers were hidden in the hat of a banker who had been promoted to Vice President in Charge of Orphan Affairs.” “No,” Olaf said, and frowned yet another time. ![]() “There was some argument about his name, actually, as a baby adopted by his orphaned children also bore the same name.” Poe have hidden in his top hat? Well, let’s ask the guy who directly benefited from the Baudelaire parents’ death and the subsequent handling of their estate: Tomorrow afternoon I am interviewing a semi-retired amateur geologist to see if this dropped stone is the same as the one Violet picks up at her second visit to Briny Beach.īut what would Mr. Pp.9-10 …Violet had to drop the stone she was holding.ĭropping a stone you had been thinking about throwing at someone might mean that you believe violence to be an immoral and ineffective way of solving problems, which instead increases the amount of strife, turmoil, and bruises in the world, which in turn only encourages other people to pick up stones. P.7 Violet, with some embarrassment, felt the stone in her left hand and was glad she had not thrown it at Mr. She had a sudden thought to throw it at the figure, because it seemed to frightening. P.5 She felt the slender, smooth stone in her left hand, which she had been about to try to skip as far as she could. Poe came to tell the Baudelaire orphans of their parents’ death, the banker was suspected of hiding something in his top hat, and Violet’s suspicion that he was a dangerous figure in their lives is heavily analyzed in the text: Stranger things have happened. In fact, Lemony Snicket seems to imply the very thing.
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