Author: Lemony Snicket
Book Title: The Bad Begging
Publisher: HarperCollins
Place: America
No. of Pages: 176
2. RESPONDING TO THE PLOT
(e) Which incidents in the novel did you find wonderful, surprising, comical, or even shocking?
I was so surprised when Sunny is hunged from the top of the tall tower made by stone blocks. Almost all the events in this story are very shocking because the tragedies fell to three orphans were miserable. However, there is a reason why I chose this part for the most shocking scene. It’s because when I imagined this scene by reading the text, my body was shaking by my imagination of the baby hunged on the high place. Although, I also remembered that babies are more likely to survive when fell from high place compared to adults. This is because baby’s body is softer then the body of an adult. However, that doesn’t mean Sunny is life is safe. I couldn’t stop my hand from turning the pages until Sunny was saved.
I also remembered the TV program that showed the incident that child fell from the roof of the apartment. In that show, the child fell from the apartment but saved by the two people that found him before falling and used their coat as a hammock to catch the child. There is a third thing I remembered when I read this scene. That is the experience when I stood on the transparent floor projected from the cliff of the Grand Canyon. My legs were shaking by looking down the view of the cliff.
Maybe, these experiences gave reality to my imagination of this scene. And the reality made me feel terror of this scene more than people who never experience these situations.
Setting: The setting was not mentioned in the book. However, Briny Beach which is the fictional beach is the place where three orphans were told that their parents died in the fire.
Conflict: Three orphans VS Count Olaf. At first, I thought the conflict is three orphans VS tragedy. But I realized that all the tragedies that orphans faced are given by Count Olaf who tried to steal a huge amount of fortune that orphans’ parents left. By the way, the conflict in this book turned out to be completely opposite compared to my last book “Slumdog Millionaire.” In “Sumdog Millionaire,” Kumar, who gives the question to main character Ram seems the enemy of the main character Ram. But his real conflict was the poor situations that he faced and those situations weren’t caused by Kumar. But in “The Bad Begging,” it’s completely opposite. I felt some interest when I realized about this.
Climax: Climax of this story is the scene where Count Olaf and Violet plays a role. In a role, there is a scene that Violet signs to the wedding contract. Count Olaf used a real paper and tried to make the play a real to become her wife to inherit the fortune. However, Violet knew his conspiracy and signed the contraction using her left hand. According to the law, the wedding contraction must be signed in bride’s “own hand.” Her wit broke the Count Olaf’s conspiracy and succeeded to reveal his scheme to the audience of the play.
Symbol: Finding the symbol of this book was very difficult. At first, I thought the symbol of this book is fortune. It’s because all the tragedies given by Count Olaf is all because he wants three orphans to die so that he can earn them. However, my IE teacher taught me that the symbol has to be something we can touch. We can touch “Money,” but we can’t touch “Fortune.” So, I would say Count Olaf is the symbol of this book. I don’t know whether a person can be a symbol or not but I can’t think of any better symbol.
Irony: Three orphans were living very happily when their parents were alive. Their parents were very rich. However, I learned that even if someone born in rich family, once they lose them, their tragedy will be big.
Theme: Theme of this story is helping. Each one of the orphans is weak, but once they gathered, they can win both to tragedies and Count Olaf.
4) REFLECTING ON THE STORY:(e)How does the character’s life compared to your own?
My life is very different from three orphans. My parents are not rich but their parents were. My parents are still alive but their parents are already dead.
I would go down if I lose my parents. But not only that, they are in the situation that they have to live with Count Olaf who is aiming for their parents’ fortune. I was very attracted by their braveness to face their miserable situations using their abilities. Violet, her ability for invention, Klaus, his knowledge by reading tremendous amount of books, and Sunny, her strength of teeth. If I were them, I would just weep and do nothing except for grudging my destiny.
However, there is one similarity with the one character. His name is Klaus. He is the bookworm and I like to read books too. But I’m not a heavy reader as Klaus. But I felt some friendship to Klaus. It is true that people are likely to become friends with who have same hobbies. If he was real person, I would like to talk about books with them. Although, most of the books I read are Japanese, so I want to hear about stories written by foreign writers.
Book Title: The Bad Begging
Publisher: HarperCollins
Place: America
No. of Pages: 176
2. RESPONDING TO THE PLOT
(e) Which incidents in the novel did you find wonderful, surprising, comical, or even shocking?
I was so surprised when Sunny is hunged from the top of the tall tower made by stone blocks. Almost all the events in this story are very shocking because the tragedies fell to three orphans were miserable. However, there is a reason why I chose this part for the most shocking scene. It’s because when I imagined this scene by reading the text, my body was shaking by my imagination of the baby hunged on the high place. Although, I also remembered that babies are more likely to survive when fell from high place compared to adults. This is because baby’s body is softer then the body of an adult. However, that doesn’t mean Sunny is life is safe. I couldn’t stop my hand from turning the pages until Sunny was saved.
I also remembered the TV program that showed the incident that child fell from the roof of the apartment. In that show, the child fell from the apartment but saved by the two people that found him before falling and used their coat as a hammock to catch the child. There is a third thing I remembered when I read this scene. That is the experience when I stood on the transparent floor projected from the cliff of the Grand Canyon. My legs were shaking by looking down the view of the cliff.
Maybe, these experiences gave reality to my imagination of this scene. And the reality made me feel terror of this scene more than people who never experience these situations.
Setting: The setting was not mentioned in the book. However, Briny Beach which is the fictional beach is the place where three orphans were told that their parents died in the fire.
Conflict: Three orphans VS Count Olaf. At first, I thought the conflict is three orphans VS tragedy. But I realized that all the tragedies that orphans faced are given by Count Olaf who tried to steal a huge amount of fortune that orphans’ parents left. By the way, the conflict in this book turned out to be completely opposite compared to my last book “Slumdog Millionaire.” In “Sumdog Millionaire,” Kumar, who gives the question to main character Ram seems the enemy of the main character Ram. But his real conflict was the poor situations that he faced and those situations weren’t caused by Kumar. But in “The Bad Begging,” it’s completely opposite. I felt some interest when I realized about this.
Climax: Climax of this story is the scene where Count Olaf and Violet plays a role. In a role, there is a scene that Violet signs to the wedding contract. Count Olaf used a real paper and tried to make the play a real to become her wife to inherit the fortune. However, Violet knew his conspiracy and signed the contraction using her left hand. According to the law, the wedding contraction must be signed in bride’s “own hand.” Her wit broke the Count Olaf’s conspiracy and succeeded to reveal his scheme to the audience of the play.
Symbol: Finding the symbol of this book was very difficult. At first, I thought the symbol of this book is fortune. It’s because all the tragedies given by Count Olaf is all because he wants three orphans to die so that he can earn them. However, my IE teacher taught me that the symbol has to be something we can touch. We can touch “Money,” but we can’t touch “Fortune.” So, I would say Count Olaf is the symbol of this book. I don’t know whether a person can be a symbol or not but I can’t think of any better symbol.
Irony: Three orphans were living very happily when their parents were alive. Their parents were very rich. However, I learned that even if someone born in rich family, once they lose them, their tragedy will be big.
Theme: Theme of this story is helping. Each one of the orphans is weak, but once they gathered, they can win both to tragedies and Count Olaf.
4) REFLECTING ON THE STORY:(e)How does the character’s life compared to your own?
My life is very different from three orphans. My parents are not rich but their parents were. My parents are still alive but their parents are already dead.
I would go down if I lose my parents. But not only that, they are in the situation that they have to live with Count Olaf who is aiming for their parents’ fortune. I was very attracted by their braveness to face their miserable situations using their abilities. Violet, her ability for invention, Klaus, his knowledge by reading tremendous amount of books, and Sunny, her strength of teeth. If I were them, I would just weep and do nothing except for grudging my destiny.
However, there is one similarity with the one character. His name is Klaus. He is the bookworm and I like to read books too. But I’m not a heavy reader as Klaus. But I felt some friendship to Klaus. It is true that people are likely to become friends with who have same hobbies. If he was real person, I would like to talk about books with them. Although, most of the books I read are Japanese, so I want to hear about stories written by foreign writers.
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