He becomes increasingly more violent, and his chore demands increase. The reader soon realizes that Count Olaf has plans to take the Baudelaire fortune and will stop at nothing to get it. She lets them use her library and help her with her garden, and she becomes quite close to the children. Justice Strauss, a neighbor of Count Olaf, provides the one bright spot in the orphans' lives. Poe seems to be oblivious to this fact and leaves the children in his care.ĭuring the children's stay with Count Olaf, they are forced to put up with less than satisfactory living conditions, a very dirty home and a myriad of chores. It is immediately obvious that he is not fit to take care of the children, but Mr. Poe's first choice for the children's guardian is Count Olaf, a distant relative. It is his responsibility to place the children with a guardian and to take care of their money until Violet turns eighteen. Poe, who is a friend of the family and the executor of the Baudelaire fortune. The three children stay at the home of Mr. As the Baudelaire children are enjoying a gloomy day at the beach, they are informed that both their mother and father have perished in a fire that destroyed their home. The book begins with, of course, a very bad beginning. In this book, the reader is introduced to four central characters, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire as well as Count Olaf. The Bad Beginning is the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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