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The Miserable Mill (2000)

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0439272637 (ISBN13: 9780439272636)
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The Miserable Mill (2000) - Plot & Excerpts

“The Miserable Mill” is the fourth book in “A Series Of Unfortunate Events”. This is an outstanding book written by Lemony Snicket. The Baudelaire children have once again been sent to another guardian. The children refer to their new guardian as Sir. This time the children’s odds of getting out of there alive are very slim. They were sent to work in a mill in exchange for their new guardian keeping Count Olaf away. For once, Count Olaf is not around, as far as the children can see anyways. Klaus, the middle child, is sent to the eye doctor after tripping in the mill. The eye doctors office is strangely shaped the exact same way as the tattoo on Count Olaf’s leg. The other two Baudelaire children soon realize that Klaus has been hypnotized every time he visits the eye doctor. Violet and Sunny decide to go with Klaus when he went to the eye doctor next. They found Count Olaf disguised as a receptionist but the strangest thing occurred, Count Olaf didn't try to capture them, instead he let Klaus go with his siblings. This book is told in first person by Violet. Violet lives with her two other siblings: Sir and Count Olaf, who is in disguise once again. The children had been sent to live with Sir, who sent them to work in the mill. The Baudelaire children know right away that Count Olaf has something to do with this, but they did not spot him right away. They eventually encounter Count Olaf but he doesn’t try to capture them. This book takes place in the mill and the eye doctors office. "The Miserable Mill" takes place in the late 1800's, having the book written around the same time. The children come in to find Count Olaf has been in the doctors office. They are very suspicious. Sir made it very clear that if another accident occurred, he would have to give the children up to a very nice lady down the street. This lady, of course, was Count Olaf disguised at the receptionist at the dentist. One of the themes of this book is optimism. The Baudelaires try to be optimistic about their new guardian even though it is very difficult. They try to not let the fear of Count Olaf finding them get to them. They don’t see him right away, but they don’t believe they are in the clear quite yet. By comparing the bad to the really bad, they are able to find some good. This optimistic outlook does not pay off. The children eventually encounter Count Olaf and the fun is about to begin. I would recommend this book to anyone in eighth grade and above looking for an easier book to read. This is a very easy book to get involved in. I found myself never wanting to put it down, which makes reading easier. This is a really great series of books to read. After reading the first three books, I want to continue reading the rest of the series. I really enjoyed reading this book and it is definitely a book for both genders.

Child Labor Laws anyone? Unions? Anyone? I don’t think kids can work in a lumber mill.Beatrice wrote a book about how she couldn’t marry him. Harsh.“I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that is what’s on the inside that counts. That is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world smell even worse than it already does.”—page 32This is pretty funny. Despite giving a kind of mix message to kids.They pay you in coupons? Um, that’s illegal and you should quick your job.“A Series of Unfortunate Events” more like “Adults Are Either Stupid and Useless or Abusive.” Unless you own snakes and reptiles. Then you die.“‘But what if he found us?’ Klaus said, squinting at his sister. ‘Who would protect us from Count Olaf, if we were all by ourselves?’‘We could protect ourselves,’ Violet replied.‘How can we protect ourselves,’ Klaus asked,”—page 104Don’t you know? Adults are useless in this universe, you’d be better off by yourselves.Charles is also Sir’s bitch. BUT HE DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE SLICED INTO HALF! This is some old cartoon shit.“When people are absolutely surprised, they sometimes take a step backward, and taking a step backward can case at this moment for when Dr. Orwell stepping backward, she steeped into the path of the whirling saw, and there was a very ghastly accident indeed.”—page 176HOLY SHIT!

What do You think about The Miserable Mill (2000)?

I’m rather disappointed that the film never used this book or any book after as the plot is just as great from here on. So if you’re someone who watched the film first and is now on the books questioning why there are so many just know that things continue with the brilliance.This time the children are not handed into the care of a distant relative, instead their fate has changed. Nevertheless, the past is still chasing them and the children are still dealing with unfortunate events which are following them around in disguise.
—Siobhan

This one took a decided turn to the dark. Not that the story's been all sunshine and rainbows up until this point, but even in the midst of unhappy circumstances, the first three books still managed to be fun, entertaining, and frequently hilarious in a snarky-sarcastic way. This book was just... dark.I think a good bit of what made me so uncomfortable about this one is (view spoiler)[Klaus being hypnotized. In the first three books, there's a feeling of the orphans against the world. They each have their strengths, and they use them to triumph even in the most dire of circumstances. That feeling was lost here, as Count Olaf manages to take Klaus away from his sisters--in mind, if not in body.Violet not having Klaus to depend on and turn to made this story, for the first time, not fun to read. For the first time I was actually left unsure if the orphans would triumph in the end (even though, obviously, I know there are still 9 books to go, so of course they win this round). But the delightful feeling of certainty that the children would work together and outsmart the grownups and defeat Count Olaf wasn't there. (hide spoiler)]
—Julesmarie

Here is a sampling of vocabulary a child will learn when reading this book: finite, wretched, atrocious, paltry, catastrophe, assiduous, diligent, pathetic, optimist, cacophony, askew, psychoneurotically, ocular, backbreaking, perplexing, disentangled, ostentatiously, horrendous, entwined, entangled, grotesque, unnerving, inordinate, irregular, immoderate, disorderly, incredulously, nefarious, dastardly, curtly, heinous, bootless, cahoots, conceivably, absurd, tome, endeavor, scrutinize, breadth, epistemology, ophthalmologically, daunting, contrived, appraisal, ocular, subsequent, requisite, exertion, imperative, expugnation, injurious, efficacious, precarious, methodology, assay, neophytes, and ineffectual. Some words are explained in a fun way by Snicket and others will have the child reaching for the dictionary.Some concepts that are explored in this book: splitting hairs, racked her brain, having the last word, en garde, gum up the works, hair's breadth, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, the lion's share, and stylistic consistency.There is one grisly death in this book. Also, worker exploitation is a theme. A great lesson in this book is not to pigeonhole yourself. Klaus, the reading genius, has to take a page out of Violet's book and invent something. Violet, the mechanical genius, has to take a page out of Klaus' book and read a complicated tome. The siblings learn that even though they have their special areas of expertise, their abilities are not limited only to those areas.
—Carmen

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