Series Of Unfortunate Events Character Analysis

The setting of a story and the traits of it’s characters often are import concepts in a story. These parts can cause conflict and create added effect to the story. In the story “Series Of Unfortunate Events” the setting and character traits are very important. The setting enables many different conflicts and the characters traits help them to overcome these many obstacles.
The setting of “Series of Unfortunate Events” is a big factor in it’s many conflicts. In the story, the setting is a 20th century city for which we are given no name. The three main characters in this story are children who have just been orphaned due to a tragic fire. This fire has destroyed their home and they are forced to live with their third uncle four times removed
The front door needed to be repainted, and carved in the middle of it was an image of an eye. The entire building sagged to the side, like a crooked tooth.” The setting provides all sorts of problems since Olaf makes the children fix it. This house is much different than the mansion they used to live in so they must get used to it and make due.
The author also uses characterization to help the story. The main characters are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, three recently orphaned children. The author uses direct characterization to tell us about them. On pages 2-4 the author describes the children “Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand than when she used her left. As she skipped rocks, she was looking out at the horizon and thinking about an invention she wanted to build. Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers,