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This 3 page paper discusses "The Hostile Hospital," the eighth book in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" series by Lemony Snicket. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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revels in the macabre, absurd, disturbing and disgusting-much to the delight of its young readers, who love such stuff. "Lemony Snicket is the pseudonym novelist Daniel Handler [he says
the name came to him while researching another book and is not meant as an homage to Jiminy Cricket] uses for his series of darkly comic childrens books known as
A Series of Unfortunate Events" (Lemony Snicket). The series is planned to be 13 volumes in length (what else?), and will no doubt continue to enmesh the unlucky trio
in miserable situations, all of which will no doubt be due to the machinations of their nemesis, the evil Count Olaf, "master of disguises and truly bad actor" (Lemony Snicket).
The very fact that the books feature adults trying to hurt or kill children marks them as a real departure in childrens literature. Part of Snickets (well
refer to him by his pseudonym) technique is to try to dissuade readers from reading his books. He starts by saying that the book is terrible and nobody would
ever want to read about such unlucky and unhappy people-which of course makes everybody eager to read it. He says, for example: "This particular book ... describes an
especially unhappy time in the dreadful lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and if you have any sense at all you will shut this book immediately, drag it up
a tall mountain, and throw it off the very top STOP" (Snicket, p. 2). The word STOP, written in capital letters, means two things, according to Snicket.
Its the end of a sentence in a telegram, or its a means to "warn readers that the book they are reading is so utterly wretched that if they have
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