Summary Of The Book A Bad Beginning: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Crystal Mateo
October 15, 2012
Dear School Board, I support the book A Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and believe it should be included on the local elementary school’s 4th grade required list. This book teaches children that not all tales end in a happy ending, similar to life. Lemony Snicket prepares our children to face tragedies. In the real world “bad things” can also happen to “good people” and by providing a story to explain the concept of life to our children is better than leading them through a childhood filled with “fairy tales” to then be struck in the face by reality. Fourth graders are not small children, they are pre-teens in the process of discovering the outside world on their own, …show more content…
This book teaches children’s about life’s hardships. These unfortunate orphans have suffered the lost of their parents the worst feeling in the world, if you ever experienced that you should know what I’m talking about. Yet, they still manage to stay strong for one another. Violet as the oldest knows that she promised her parents once that she will always take care of her younger siblings Klaus and Sunny. Circumstances and their parents will lend the to Counts Oalfs custody, which was a horrible experience. Yes, but this made the kids closer than they ever were before. By only having each other Violet, Klaus and Sunny are their own moral support, they count on each other for everything, even to protect them from evil beings like Count Olaf. Fourth graders can learn solidarity from this book, they could see pass the “bad beginning” and build their own ending. Disregarding how to story actually ends, one can add their own ending. The school can organize activies on how the student would have wanted to see in a second part of the book. This story has endless possibilities. Also, with a not so pleasant ending, readers appreciate more the “happily ever after” books, and notice how life is really not like
October 15, 2012
Dear School Board, I support the book A Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and believe it should be included on the local elementary school’s 4th grade required list. This book teaches children that not all tales end in a happy ending, similar to life. Lemony Snicket prepares our children to face tragedies. In the real world “bad things” can also happen to “good people” and by providing a story to explain the concept of life to our children is better than leading them through a childhood filled with “fairy tales” to then be struck in the face by reality. Fourth graders are not small children, they are pre-teens in the process of discovering the outside world on their own, …show more content…
This book teaches children’s about life’s hardships. These unfortunate orphans have suffered the lost of their parents the worst feeling in the world, if you ever experienced that you should know what I’m talking about. Yet, they still manage to stay strong for one another. Violet as the oldest knows that she promised her parents once that she will always take care of her younger siblings Klaus and Sunny. Circumstances and their parents will lend the to Counts Oalfs custody, which was a horrible experience. Yes, but this made the kids closer than they ever were before. By only having each other Violet, Klaus and Sunny are their own moral support, they count on each other for everything, even to protect them from evil beings like Count Olaf. Fourth graders can learn solidarity from this book, they could see pass the “bad beginning” and build their own ending. Disregarding how to story actually ends, one can add their own ending. The school can organize activies on how the student would have wanted to see in a second part of the book. This story has endless possibilities. Also, with a not so pleasant ending, readers appreciate more the “happily ever after” books, and notice how life is really not like