The Wide Window 8/15/15 (Blog 1 of 4)

The Wide Window (Spoilers)
Book #3 in the, "Series of Unfortunate Events"
Author: Lemony Snicket
Pages: 1-127
Prompts:  

1. List the physical characteristics of the main character (clothing, physical 

features, etc.)

2. Who is the most important character to you? Why?

3. Are the characters realistic (do they seem like they could be real people)? Why
or why not?
  
          The main character, Count Olaf, has many physical characteristics. "He is very tall and very thin." (page 22) He's also "...unshaven, and rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have he has one long one." (page 23) Count Olaf also has very shiny eyes I know this because on page 48 it says, "...the same dreadful and shiny eyes as before..." Count Olaf wears many different disguises to trick people. All in all, his clothing changes a lot, but not his physical features.

          Count Olaf is the most important character to me so far. I say this because even though he is the antagonist the story doesn't go on without him. Count Olaf is very deceiving and fools everyone around him all the time. The only people who he can't and never will trick are the people that he is going after. Which in this case are the Baudelaire orphans.
  
          I feel that the characters in this book are very realistic. For example, the Baudelaire orphans' aunt committed suicide and left a note in her library to go with Captain Sham. Captain Sham was a man who gained the aunt's trust. What the aunt didn't know was that Captain sham was in disguise and he really was count Olaf, the antagonist. The Baudelaire's were very upset that they were stuck with Count Olaf and shocked that their aunt killed herself. (pages 68-69) Overall the characters are realistic because the characters have their own feelings, thoughts, and emotions just like real people.

These are the Baudelaire orphans. The Baby is called "Sunny."

 The older girl is called, "Violet." And the boy is called "Klaus"