Friday, December 16th, 2016- Reading Log #7- Topic Choice #4- Literary Elements and Devices12/16/2016 Setting, foreshadowing, and point of view are the literary elements presented in the book “The Austere Academy”. Each element is being used differently. For setting, the book takes place at Prufrock Preparatory School, the three orphans attend it in this book of the series. Also, it takes place at a dull gray place with buildings shaped like tombstones, or to others, thumbs. Mr. Poes exclaims, “Rather odd architecture,” Mr. Poe commented. “Each building looks like a thumb.” Even Mr. Poe think the rather odd shaped building look like thumbs. The author's purpose for using setting was to better describe how horrible it was living there and to help you understand their feelings of the scenery. For foreshadowing, the V.F.D foreshadows about Count Olaf’s secret that may or may not be revealed later on in the series. The author states, “The children had to find out the secret of V.F.D. and the dreadful thing the Quagmires had discovered. Perhaps it could help them rescue the two triplets. Perhaps it could bring Count Olaf to justice. And perhaps it could somehow make clear the mysterious and deadly way that their lives had become so unfortunate.” V.F.D is like an acronym for something that has foreshadowed Count Olaf’s secret. The author’s purpose for using foreshadowing was to give some mystery and to make you ponder as to what the Quagmire triplets were referring to. For point of view, the story is told in 3rd person. The author’ s purpose for using point of view was to describe their unfortunate lives from his perspective and narrate using the words “he” and “she”. The literary elements are being used to better describe and better explain every horrible and unfortunate event that has happened to the three Baudelaires.
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The main conflict is that Coach Genghis, Count Olaf, is trying to steal Violet, Klaus, and Sunny’s fortune. It starts when Coach Genghis is making the three Baudelaires, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, run laps. That was his plan to steal their fortune. He made them paint a large glow in the dark track for them to run around after dinner when it was dark. He wanted them to be so tired they would fail their classes and get suspended, that way they would come and live with Count Olaf, Coach Genghis. This is a conflict, instead of an important event because the idea that Count Olaf always comes up with a new way to try to steal the Baudelaire fortune is what fuels each story, so without this conflict there would be no story. This is a problem because Count Olaf will do what whatever it takes to get his greedy hands on the Baudelaire fortune, even committing murder. This problem affects the Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. The three orphans react fearful of what he might do to them if he gets his hands on their fortune. The author states on page 21, “But how can a computer keep Count Olaf away?” Klaus asked. “He could still show up and cause trouble, no matter what appears on a computer screen.” Klaus does not believe the computer can stop Count Olaf. He must be scared of what he can do to the Baudelaires when he does show up at the school. The characters try to find out what Count Olaf is really up to because of the conflict. On page 78 the author explains, “What we need is a plan. Now, we need to prove to Nero that Coach Genghis is really Count Olaf. How can we do that?” They react by trying to create a plan to expose Coach Genghis’ true identity. The conflict is external because it is caused by an outside force. The conflict is situational because Count Olaf scheming to steal the Baudelaire fortune is a situation in the conflict, it is not personal. I have not finished the book yet, so I do not know if the conflict was resolved.
The Baudelaires and Aunt Josephine are hurriedly on there way back to Damocles dock. They are trying to escape from the mouths of the Lachrymose Leeches. These leeches will eat any food they smell, even food that has already been eaten by a human. Aunt Josephine had recently eaten a banana, so the leeches were chasing after them, trying to crack the boat and get to their prey. Violet Baudelaire thought of an idea to signal for help. Her idea failed on her first attempt at it, but her second attempt worked. The thing is, the person who saw her signal was none other than Count Olaf. It was both a blessing and a curse. He saves the Baudelaires and Aunt Josephine. When they were safely on the boat, Count Olaf walked over to Aunt Josephine, angry at her for not doing what he told her to do. He pushed Aunt Josephine off the boat and she ended up being eaten by the evil Lachrymose Leeches. This scene, on Lake Lachrymose is happening towards the end of the book. This scene is so important because it was a very scary scene and Aunt Josephine did end up dying, which was a surprise. The author made the reader think that this was it, the Baudelaires are going to die. But, the three children did indeed not die. He also made the reader think that Aunt Josephine would end up not dying and would care for the three orphaned Baudelaires. But, she did die and certainly would not care for the Baudelaires. It does not create the conflict. It shows the characteristics of Violet Baudelaire. The scene showed her inventive characteristic by having Violet invent a signaling device. It does not help create the theme of the whole book. Violet reacts very sadly that her first attempt to start a fire as a signaling device did not work and then she was very happy about her second attempt. On page 61 of the book “The Wide Window” it explains, "It's not working," she said again, and dropped the oar in despair. "We need a fire, but I can't invent one." Violet is unhappy that she can’t invent something to help their situation. She usually is able to solve their problem with an invention easily. She was then upset about Count Olaf finding them. On page 64 of the book “The Wide Window” it states, "If it weren't for you," Violet said fiercely, "we wouldn't be in Lake Lachrymose to begin with." Count Olaf wants to steal the Baudelaire fortune. Violet does not want to be found because of that. The point of the plot structure in this scene that takes place is falling action. Why did the orphaned children not attempt to save their Aunt Josephine?
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