A Series of Unfortunate Events Summary

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator

By Nicolette Cheek

In the book A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket there is three main characters. The characters are Violet Baudelaire, who usually has her hair tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes when she is thinking hard, Klaus Baudelaire, who wears glasses and is very smart, and Sunny Baudelaire, who also has a ribbon on her head, and is very small for a baby of her age. The setting is on 667 Dark Avenue, which is only a few blocks away from where their mansion was, which got burned down in a fire.

In the beginning, Violet, Sunny, and Klaus move to their new gaurdians’ penthouse on 667 Dark Avevue. (This time, they have two guardians, who are married). Their guardians, Jerome and Esmé Squalor, live in a very dark neighborhood that looks like its always night. Next, the siblings discover that their new guardians are very, very wealthy, but that they live in a place where things that are “in” and “out” are always changing. The place the Baudelaires live in are currently in a phase where dark is “in”, but later in the story light is “in”. After that, the siblings are not typically enjoying their new seventy-one room home, as they find it very boring since the things they like are not “in”. Later, Count Olaf, the siblings’ enemy who is trying to steal their fortune, returns in disguise as Gunther. Finally, the siblings find Count Olaf’s secret hideout in an empty elevator shaft.

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This is a thing my teacher assigns us each week, where we have to write short summaries about the book we read.