The series of unfortunate events #5 The Austere Academy
Sacrifice, strategize to your problems, is all meanings to this book. Sacrifice because on page 78 " if you try to help us, you'll be risking your lives" " never mind that, you are my friend and I'll help you" the meaning would be help your friends, or family, because they need help, like the Baudelaire orphans came to this really mean school, and two other orphans helped them, risked their lives for their friends.
Another meaning could be to strategize your problems because the three orphans were in a lot of trouble because they were in a bad situation where all the teachers were mean, or boring, the principle was mean, and shellfish. No one could understand their problem but the other two orphans, who risked their lives for them. But to solve the problem, they used their skills. Violet the inventor, invented lots of inventions, and had a good plan, Klaus who reads a lot of books, found out how to fix problems, and sunny fixed problems by biting. Together, they fixed a lot of the problems.
In this book, there was a lot of features. A big feature was that the author talked a lot to the reader. Every chapter, he would introduce an expression and use it many times in the book. He would give warnings like " if you don't want to sleep with nightmares, don't continue reading this book" An example of an expression he used is" don't make a mountain out of a mole hill!" And he would use that in the story.
I also find he would use many simile, like at the begging on page 4 "Camilla spats is not like a trip to the ice cream store" It would mean that Camilla spats isn't a very good person.
A symbol,,metaphor, and a bit of foreshadowing at the same time would be on page 13 and there was this saying in Latin on the school, and it meant "Remember you will die" It was a symbol to mean that the school, is a bad place for the orphans, they lived In a shack, the food was gross,
people would treat them badly, the principal was really horrible, and no one was empathetic in the story but the other orphans.
It was symbol for like a school where you will feel like you die, because of it conditions, it is a horrible place in that book. It was a metaphor, for the meaning of it like I said, and a bit of foreshadowing because in the future, you know all the bad things that happened over there. In the book, it seemed to be old for the technology , and the language. There was a lot of old words, and he would introduce some in every chapter. For example, on page 168, the author used the word "Veranda" and in the book it was when computers were first invented, and they were saying it was high quality, but it wasn't really because they said it would keep count Olaf out of the school, but it never worked.
A metaphor on page 169 witch kind of meant like be in your shoes, and acting in the persons place, " it may not be particularly wise, but it's a thrill in disguise" the orphans actually went in each other's shoes.( in their place)
In the world, people would treat children badly like in the series of unfortunate event. For example in a dictator ship, or in WW2. But, another feature was that it was exaggerated, because not a lot of people would be that mean, especially everyone around you. In the world, things similar to that can happen, but not that bad. My mom read me this book when I was younger, and was called Oliver Twist, and it was about an orphan, and had a bad life, and it made me think of this book because of their life, they are both not a good life.
It reminds me of another book I read called Mud City, because the main character of that book is homeless, she has no parents, and the book doesn't have a satisfied ending, just like The Austere Academy. But they both have a series to fix the problem. In Mud city, no one understands the situation that she is in, just like my book. That is why it reminded me of that.
I find that maybe this book was necessary to write because it shows what could be going on( but the book is a little exaggerated) in the world. But I don't understand why people don't recognize count Olaf in disguise. Especially mr. Poe, who saw him a lot and knows what he is capable of. It makes me think that maybe mr. Poe is involved. I have a bad feeling about mr.poe because since the Baudelaire's have a good fortune in money not luck, and mr.poe is a banker and he was there when their parents died and was the first one to know.
In the story, it was a bad ending because they would get free, but count Olaf got free and took their friends with him. But in the book, there is almost no humour. The author, isn't serious when he talks to the reader, but the book, it is serious. But it makes me want to read the next book, because I want to see what happens to the kids that got kidnapped.
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