The Bad Beginning Sparknotes

The book I was reading is named The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. The the book there's a bad man named count olaf. He treated the Baudelaire children horribly. Because right when the children got to count olafs house he made then clean his whole house that was a huge mess. He also only gave them one bed to sleep on from all three children. The when the children begged him to give them food. Count Olaf just gave them pieces of old meat. But there was something that count olaf tried to do but just wasn't right. It was extremely horrible. One night count olaf came up with a plan to steal the Baudelaire fortune. After a week of planning he finally came up with something. He told the children that they would be starting in a new play that he came up with. Count olaf gave each one of them a part in the play. He also tricked a judge to being in the play as a witness. At first the children didn't want to be in the play. But Count Olaf threatened them if they weren't in it. Klaus thought that is was strange that count olaf had let them
The day before the play klaus was up all night trying to figure out why Count Olaf wanted violet to be his bride. So Klaus started reading all Count olaf's books about reading. The he finally found what he was looking for. Klaus woke up Violet with astonishment. He told her that count olaf is not trying to make a play for everyone to see and just for fun. He is trying to do it for real. By for real klaus told Violet was that Count olaf was really trying to marry violet. So he could have control of their fortune and steal it all. Klaus told violet. “Tomorrow in the play you must not sign the document that count olaf has put together with your dominant hand.” violet nodded and said ‘very