Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 2, 2019 4:43:04 GMT -5
Now let's talk about Miss K. For me to create my theory that I called Miss K Enigma, I compared excerpts from the book TAA, TPP and Nero's letter to the parents of Carmelita Spats. And The End.
The principle of theory is to create a timeline, involving the characters Bass and Remora.
During the main events described in TAA, Bass and Remora were teachers of Prufrock Prep. Bass had not yet become a bank robber. Bass and remora worked for Nero. In Chapter 6, Lemony informed us what caused the closure of Prufrock Prep.
"Prufrock Preparatoy School is now closed. It has been closed for many yars, ever since Mrs Bass was arrested for bank robbery."
Bass became a thief in the time of events recorded in TSS. She became a thief because she received a letter from JS, asking her to bring valuables to the hotel. Remora still worked for Nero at that time, and Bass also.
TPP chapter 6: "Please, boss," said another familiar voice, and Nero turned around, his greasy braids swinging behind him. Sunny saw, to her dismay, that Nero was sharing Room 371 with two other figures from the Baudelaires' past. "You said we could stop for a lunch break," continued Mr. Remora,
Note that Remora called Nero the boss. This shows that at this time when the events recorded in TPP passed, Prufrock Prep was still working with Remora and Bass teaching.
TPP chapter 6: "I'm so hungry I could eat a dekagram of rice," said Mrs. Bass, who had been Klaus's teacher. It was clear that her enthusiasm for measuring things according to the metric system
had remained the same, but the youngest Baudelaire noticed that her appearance had changed
somewhat. On top of her shaggy, black hair was a small blond wig, like a snowcap on the top
of a mountain peak, and she was wearing a small, narrow mask with two tiny holes for her
eyes. "I've heard there's a wonderful Indian restaurant in Room 954... "Don't you think you should bring your loot, Mrs. Bass?" asked Mr. Remora, pointing to
the far wall of Room 371.
"No, no," Mrs. Bass said quickly, her eyes blinking nervously through the holes in the
mask. "It'll be safer in the room."
Sunny tilted her head so she could stare past the teacher's knees, and made her first
important observation as a flaneur. Piled on a table in the hotel room, right near a window overlooking the sea, was a large, bulky pile of large, bulky bags, each with the words PROPERTY OF MULCTUARY MONEY MANAGEMENT stamped on them in stern black ink. The youngest Baudelaire could not imagine why Mrs. Bass was in possession of
something from the bank where Mr. Poe worked."
.... "How do you know there will be music critics at the party?" Mr. Remora asked. "My invitation just said there'd be an all-you-can-eat banana buffet." "Mine didn't say anything about music critics, either," Mrs. Bass said. "It just says that there's a party in celebration of the metric system, and that I should bring as many valuables as possible so they could be measured. As a teacher, I don't earn enough money to purchase any valuables, so I had to resort to a life of crime."
Now let's look at Nero's letter. This letter reports an event beginning with Miss K, which happened after the main events recorded in TPP.
I'll show you why I believe in it.
Nero Wrote: (The UA, chapter 8): "Because of the article you sent me, I have fire Ms K, the teacher who replaced Mr. Remora after he chocked on a banana and decided to retire."
So Ms K was hired by Nero after Remora retired. When Remora was at the hotel during the events recorded in the TPP book, Remora still worked for Nero. He called Nero the boss, and relied on Nero's permission to have lunch time. Remora was placed in the room dedicated to people related to educational institutions, because Remora was still a teacher.
But by the time Miss K went to Prufrock Prep, Remora had retired.
And what about Bass? By the time Miss K was at Prufrock Prep, Bass was still a teacher. But she missed classes often. Nero explained:
"Things are a bit slow at the school without Ms . As you recall, our gym teacher, Coach Genghis, no longer teaches here, and Mrs Bass always seems to be taking a day off to take care of some business she has at the bank."
Mrs. Bass continued to rob the bank for a while. She missed classes so she could steal the bank from time to time. This also indicates that Ms K was in Prufrock Prep after events recorded at TPP because Mrs. Bass became a thrasher at the time she received the invitation to the event at the hotel. According to Lemony, Prufrock Prep continued running until Bass was arrested. Thus, Bass, Remora, Nero and Carmelita remained alive after the hotel was burned. Was Kit in Prufrock Prep after the destruction of the hotel? Did she abandon her mission, and went to Prufrock Prep between events recorded in TPP until she appeared on the island? No. Kit's words in TE indicate that she was to find Windershins, repair the Queequeg, and try to rescue the Quaquimires. And then she died on the island. The events recorded in Nero's letter evidently occurred after that. If Miss K was using Kit's name, she was pretending to be Kit. Of course, it could be any other volunteer who has K as the initial letter of the name. Or anyone else pretending to be Kit other than Beatrice.
But she was not Kit, because Kit was dead.
The hypothesis of Ms K to be Beatrice comes from the photo found on page 142. In this photo, Lemony wrote the message: "Will ever see her again?" and circled the photo of a woman.
I thought this woman was Miss K. But now, I realized something important. Nero states that this photo was taken after the resignation of Miss K of Prufrock Prep. So this woman is not pretending to be the teacher. She's pretending to be one of the students.
Regarding what many fans think about Kit to be the only K quoted in the books ... That's not true. On page 36 and 37 of the UA, it is quoted that a certain person named K. At the time of the VFD meeting, recorded in chapter 3 of the UA, that K is called neophyte. However, this meeting took place after the cancellation of Lemony's marriage. We know this, because it is recorded in the meeting that G had already begun to publish the column called "Secret Organizations You Shoud Know About." According to the newspapers filed in Chapter 5, this column only came into existence following the resignation of Lemony from the Daily Punctilio. At that time Kit was no longer a neophyte. In fact, Kit is older than Lemony. And Kit had already been supporting VFD since childhood. So the person named K, who is called a neophyte at the meeting, is not Kit. This person could be the one who visited Prufrock Prep many years later, and passed himself a teacher. She could use the initial of her name without problems. In fact, that makes more sense than saying that Beatrice could be Miss K. Now I think Beatrice was disguised as a student at about the same time.
The principle of theory is to create a timeline, involving the characters Bass and Remora.
During the main events described in TAA, Bass and Remora were teachers of Prufrock Prep. Bass had not yet become a bank robber. Bass and remora worked for Nero. In Chapter 6, Lemony informed us what caused the closure of Prufrock Prep.
"Prufrock Preparatoy School is now closed. It has been closed for many yars, ever since Mrs Bass was arrested for bank robbery."
Bass became a thief in the time of events recorded in TSS. She became a thief because she received a letter from JS, asking her to bring valuables to the hotel. Remora still worked for Nero at that time, and Bass also.
TPP chapter 6: "Please, boss," said another familiar voice, and Nero turned around, his greasy braids swinging behind him. Sunny saw, to her dismay, that Nero was sharing Room 371 with two other figures from the Baudelaires' past. "You said we could stop for a lunch break," continued Mr. Remora,
Note that Remora called Nero the boss. This shows that at this time when the events recorded in TPP passed, Prufrock Prep was still working with Remora and Bass teaching.
TPP chapter 6: "I'm so hungry I could eat a dekagram of rice," said Mrs. Bass, who had been Klaus's teacher. It was clear that her enthusiasm for measuring things according to the metric system
had remained the same, but the youngest Baudelaire noticed that her appearance had changed
somewhat. On top of her shaggy, black hair was a small blond wig, like a snowcap on the top
of a mountain peak, and she was wearing a small, narrow mask with two tiny holes for her
eyes. "I've heard there's a wonderful Indian restaurant in Room 954... "Don't you think you should bring your loot, Mrs. Bass?" asked Mr. Remora, pointing to
the far wall of Room 371.
"No, no," Mrs. Bass said quickly, her eyes blinking nervously through the holes in the
mask. "It'll be safer in the room."
Sunny tilted her head so she could stare past the teacher's knees, and made her first
important observation as a flaneur. Piled on a table in the hotel room, right near a window overlooking the sea, was a large, bulky pile of large, bulky bags, each with the words PROPERTY OF MULCTUARY MONEY MANAGEMENT stamped on them in stern black ink. The youngest Baudelaire could not imagine why Mrs. Bass was in possession of
something from the bank where Mr. Poe worked."
.... "How do you know there will be music critics at the party?" Mr. Remora asked. "My invitation just said there'd be an all-you-can-eat banana buffet." "Mine didn't say anything about music critics, either," Mrs. Bass said. "It just says that there's a party in celebration of the metric system, and that I should bring as many valuables as possible so they could be measured. As a teacher, I don't earn enough money to purchase any valuables, so I had to resort to a life of crime."
Now let's look at Nero's letter. This letter reports an event beginning with Miss K, which happened after the main events recorded in TPP.
I'll show you why I believe in it.
Nero Wrote: (The UA, chapter 8): "Because of the article you sent me, I have fire Ms K, the teacher who replaced Mr. Remora after he chocked on a banana and decided to retire."
So Ms K was hired by Nero after Remora retired. When Remora was at the hotel during the events recorded in the TPP book, Remora still worked for Nero. He called Nero the boss, and relied on Nero's permission to have lunch time. Remora was placed in the room dedicated to people related to educational institutions, because Remora was still a teacher.
But by the time Miss K went to Prufrock Prep, Remora had retired.
And what about Bass? By the time Miss K was at Prufrock Prep, Bass was still a teacher. But she missed classes often. Nero explained:
"Things are a bit slow at the school without Ms . As you recall, our gym teacher, Coach Genghis, no longer teaches here, and Mrs Bass always seems to be taking a day off to take care of some business she has at the bank."
Mrs. Bass continued to rob the bank for a while. She missed classes so she could steal the bank from time to time. This also indicates that Ms K was in Prufrock Prep after events recorded at TPP because Mrs. Bass became a thrasher at the time she received the invitation to the event at the hotel. According to Lemony, Prufrock Prep continued running until Bass was arrested. Thus, Bass, Remora, Nero and Carmelita remained alive after the hotel was burned. Was Kit in Prufrock Prep after the destruction of the hotel? Did she abandon her mission, and went to Prufrock Prep between events recorded in TPP until she appeared on the island? No. Kit's words in TE indicate that she was to find Windershins, repair the Queequeg, and try to rescue the Quaquimires. And then she died on the island. The events recorded in Nero's letter evidently occurred after that. If Miss K was using Kit's name, she was pretending to be Kit. Of course, it could be any other volunteer who has K as the initial letter of the name. Or anyone else pretending to be Kit other than Beatrice.
But she was not Kit, because Kit was dead.
The hypothesis of Ms K to be Beatrice comes from the photo found on page 142. In this photo, Lemony wrote the message: "Will ever see her again?" and circled the photo of a woman.
I thought this woman was Miss K. But now, I realized something important. Nero states that this photo was taken after the resignation of Miss K of Prufrock Prep. So this woman is not pretending to be the teacher. She's pretending to be one of the students.
Regarding what many fans think about Kit to be the only K quoted in the books ... That's not true. On page 36 and 37 of the UA, it is quoted that a certain person named K. At the time of the VFD meeting, recorded in chapter 3 of the UA, that K is called neophyte. However, this meeting took place after the cancellation of Lemony's marriage. We know this, because it is recorded in the meeting that G had already begun to publish the column called "Secret Organizations You Shoud Know About." According to the newspapers filed in Chapter 5, this column only came into existence following the resignation of Lemony from the Daily Punctilio. At that time Kit was no longer a neophyte. In fact, Kit is older than Lemony. And Kit had already been supporting VFD since childhood. So the person named K, who is called a neophyte at the meeting, is not Kit. This person could be the one who visited Prufrock Prep many years later, and passed himself a teacher. She could use the initial of her name without problems. In fact, that makes more sense than saying that Beatrice could be Miss K. Now I think Beatrice was disguised as a student at about the same time.
