A Series of Unfortunate Events: we've all read them. Or at least, we read them until we were too depressed to carry on. (Although I must admit that Lemony Snicket does remind the reader every 4.2 seconds that they could be reading something less real and therefore less morbid. I'm not bitter though.) This popular series by Lemony Snicket is written in such a way that the author occasionally takes a step back from the story and addresses the reader about what is to come or how they should throw the book aside and run away to their grandma's house for cookies or blah blah blah...........zzzzzzzzzzzzz............I fell asleep. He uses his depressed tone of foreboding to entice the reader into carrying on with the innately tragic story of three little orphans. When he pauses to talk to his reader, Lemony Snicket likes to explain why he is telling the story the way he is or how certain events will make sense later.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Great Gatsby: Is Nick secretly Lemony Snicket?
"Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. On the contrary, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer, and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs." (Page 56)
A Series of Unfortunate Events: we've all read them. Or at least, we read them until we were too depressed to carry on. (Although I must admit that Lemony Snicket does remind the reader every 4.2 seconds that they could be reading something less real and therefore less morbid. I'm not bitter though.) This popular series by Lemony Snicket is written in such a way that the author occasionally takes a step back from the story and addresses the reader about what is to come or how they should throw the book aside and run away to their grandma's house for cookies or blah blah blah...........zzzzzzzzzzzzz............I fell asleep. He uses his depressed tone of foreboding to entice the reader into carrying on with the innately tragic story of three little orphans. When he pauses to talk to his reader, Lemony Snicket likes to explain why he is telling the story the way he is or how certain events will make sense later.
Nick reminded me of Lemony Snicket on page 58 when he paused from his storytelling for a moment to address the reader about how he is writing the story. He wants to emphasize that the events he had previously described weren't the only things going on in his life. That's when he breaks into his description of work and New York. I don't know about you, but I was relived to learn Nick has an actual life.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: we've all read them. Or at least, we read them until we were too depressed to carry on. (Although I must admit that Lemony Snicket does remind the reader every 4.2 seconds that they could be reading something less real and therefore less morbid. I'm not bitter though.) This popular series by Lemony Snicket is written in such a way that the author occasionally takes a step back from the story and addresses the reader about what is to come or how they should throw the book aside and run away to their grandma's house for cookies or blah blah blah...........zzzzzzzzzzzzz............I fell asleep. He uses his depressed tone of foreboding to entice the reader into carrying on with the innately tragic story of three little orphans. When he pauses to talk to his reader, Lemony Snicket likes to explain why he is telling the story the way he is or how certain events will make sense later.
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Oh my gosh, you are so right! I thought the same thing. I almost have a hard time getting through this book because Nick always tells you that something bad is about to happen. Even if its not directly or its just hinted, I feel like I'm always waiting for something to explode in this world of affairs, decadence and arrogance. Even at the very beginning of the book when he says, "Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on." Ever since that point I've basically been waiting for him to explode on all these selfish people and basically go on a mass murdering spree. I'm really looking forward to all the terrible things to come. (NOT!)
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