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Post by ~SPIN on Jul 1, 2004 13:02:51 GMT -5
I remember in I think The Austere Academy, Violet said something about her friend Ben. I always wondered where they went to school at before Prufrock Prep.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 1, 2004 14:55:11 GMT -5
Ben was mentioned in book 6; I believe he gave Violet some elevator blueprints at some point. If memory serves, no other friends were mentioned by name. Curiously, the Baudelaires never went to school except in book 5, which implies that the series begins during summer vacation.
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Post by Michael on Jul 1, 2004 16:56:43 GMT -5
is this the only time a friend was mentioned? I seem to remember someone else who was mentioned...when they were remembering about life before the books....i donno...actually..how long does books 1-10 take? a few months?
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Post by Luigi on Jul 1, 2004 17:26:17 GMT -5
is this the only time a friend was mentioned? I seem to remember someone else who was mentioned...when they were remembering about life before the books....i donno...actually..how long does books 1-10 take? a few months? Take what? |
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Post by Michael on Jul 1, 2004 18:20:34 GMT -5
i meant how much time the series takes *how do i phrase this?  *....like....book one=1 week etc. Someone said it probably started during the Summer, so i was just wondering what part of the year it was now (Book 10-11) ;D |
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Post by Antenora on Jul 1, 2004 18:56:55 GMT -5
Evidence suggests that it's late winter, hence False Spring. The Baudelaires supposedly spent a "half-semester" at Prufrock , which would be about 2 months, but it seems like only one; their academic experience was sort of cut short. The series seems to span about 3-4 months, so if it started in August it's currently December. There's a timeline somewhere.
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Post by gary on Jul 1, 2004 20:20:07 GMT -5
I do wonder why they're not in school before, though.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 1, 2004 20:31:12 GMT -5
Doesn't the asoue calendar say that the baud mansion burnt down on march 31st? So then the series would begin in march. And in aa it says:
Normally the baudelaires would have sat with their friends, but all their friends were far far from prufrock preparatory school.
So they did have SOME friends before the fire(how could they not? They're charming, resourceful and rich.)
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Post by Antenora on Jul 1, 2004 21:23:09 GMT -5
Thanks for catching the calendar detail; I'd forgotten about that. This means that if my estimated timespan is correct, it's currently July in the series. I guess Mr. Poe just neglected to cover the school-attendance issue when choosing guardians. He neglects a lot of things, out of either stupidity or malice. Anyway, I found the timeline. Thank thee, Mike Cuellar. |
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Jul 1, 2004 21:53:14 GMT -5
March 31st is the date the ALLEGED mansion ALLEGEDLY burned down. so maybe it wasnt the date and this was a red herring.
Im sure the Bauds did have some friends...
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Post by Sapphire on Jul 2, 2004 9:04:35 GMT -5
Ben was mentioned in book 6; I believe he gave Violet some elevator blueprints at some point. He gave them to her for her birthday. I'm pretty sure that's the only friend they metion, although I'm sure they have more. Maybe they weren't put in school because none of their guardians could pay for it or something. |
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Jul 2, 2004 9:40:24 GMT -5
maybe when their parents home-schooled them
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Post by Freckles on Jul 2, 2004 13:50:15 GMT -5
I think i rememberd in the first book that Lemony said that they had friends but they stopped visiting them.
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Post by tex mexx on Jul 2, 2004 21:22:25 GMT -5
you'd think their friends would help them or something after reading about them in the newspaper. They would probably know them well enough to say that the newspaper was wrong about the Baudelaires.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Jul 3, 2004 3:57:26 GMT -5
I think all their friends have, as Lemony said, fallen by the wayside. It really does happen when you go through a tragedy of some kind, it happened to me when one of my friends died and again when I got sick. Strange.
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