¶ … Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket The Bad Beginning is a children's novel written by Lemony Snicket, a pen name used by Daniel Handler. Published in 1999, the book is the first of series called A Series of Unfortunate Events, and is 162 pages. The novel tells the story Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, three children who are orphaned when their parents are killed in a house fire and are forced to live with their wicked Uncle Olaf. All through the book these children have extremely bad luck.

The book starts with the children playing on the beach where they meet a banker named Mr. Poe, who is the manager of their parent's estate. Mr. Poe tells them what has happened to their parents. Since there house has burned down and their parents will states that they must be live with a relative they are moved in with Olaf. The will also says that when violet, who is fourteen, becomes of age she will inherit their parents fortune. The plot of the novel centers on Olaf's...

Olaf is described as a dirty drunkard who is mean with an eye tattooed on his leg and a single eyebrow across his forehead. He forces the child to work for him cleaning, cooking and splitting wood. In one scene Olaf hits Klaus in the face. When the children go to Mr. Poe to complain of their mistreatment his does not believe them and they are left to fend on their own.
Violet discovers that Olaf and his accomplices, a wart faced man, a man with hooks for hands, a bald man with a long nose, and a fat person who looks neither like a man or a woman, and two white faced woman plan on having her marry their uncle during what is supposed to be a play so Olaf can gain control of her fortune. They are going to trick Justice Strauss into performing the ceremony. They can…