Book Talk: A Series of Unfortunate Events 4 (book 4) 1/2/15

Prompt - Book Talk

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     The title of the book that I'm reading is "The Miserable Mill" which is the fourth book of The Series; "A series of Unfortunate Events". The author is Lemony Snicket and the genre of this book and overall series is mostly mystery and adventure.

     This/these book(s) are about three children that get bad news one day that their parents died in a house fire. They go from care taker to care taker and each one leads to bad things. In the first book, they met Count Olaf; a very greedy and mean man that wanted to take their fortune from them that their parents left. He follows them every where they go to live and always manages to escape. In this book, they go to live in a lumber mill and they have to work there everyday. There is many little bad things that happen to them there like having to wake up early to work, getting only gum for lunch, get paid in coupons, and a lot more. But, their real problem is when Klaus (one of the orphans) gets tripped; twice by one of Count Olaf's assistants but they do not know that it is his assistant yet because his assistants and himself disguise themselves. So, Klaus had to go to get new glasses where Count Olaf was disguised. He came back both of the times looking confused and doesn't say much. His sisters; Violet and Sunny think that something is wrong with him. Later on in the book, they figure out what happened. So, that's basically what this book is about which out giving away the whole ending.

     The setting of this book is in Lucky Smells Lumbermill and in an optometrist's office where Count Olaf is in disguise. There are three main characters in this book and all of the other books; which are the three orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny in order from oldest to youngest. Violet is 14, Klaus is 12, and Sunny is an infant. Violet has brown eyes and dark brown hair, Klaus has brown eyes and black hair, and Sunny has black hair and eyes. The conflict or struggle that the three orphans had to face was to escape from Count Olaf after he had tried continuously to adopt them to just steal their fortune. The mood of all of these books is unhappy. Even the author himself states in all or most of the books that he warns the readers to put the book down and read something else if they don't want to read about the unhappy lives of the children. In this particular book, the theme of "The Miserable Mill" is optimism. There are several examples of optimism in this book; mostly by Phil, an employee at Lucky Smells Lumbermill. He can find the good in everything even when he is in great pain, which makes Violet, Klaus, and Sunny try to be optimistic in their situations, and in the end of the book, they were positively thinning that they were lucky that they were alive even though many bad things had happened to them.

     I really liked this book; I liked the whole series because I think it was interesting and fun to read about all of their adventures and it was unlike most books. So, I enjoyed reading something that I haven't read before; that's what I remember most of it, it's uniqueness. I actually have read this series before in forth and fifth grade which is an example that shows how much I like these books. I would recommend this book to everyone because it's really good and if someone is not really into reading, it's a short and easy read while still being interesting. I think that someone would want to go out and get this book if they wanted to read it for entertainment. In conclusion, I liked this book and I would recommend it.