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Post by Agathological on Mar 29, 2017 14:19:15 GMT -5
It is never mentioned that the Baudelaire's attended a funeral for their parents. I know the debate reigns whether Beatrice died in the fire, but it seems odd that the series never mentions whether a funeral was held, or even if there was a grave site for where they were buried (if there was anything to bury that is).
The Baudelaire's visit the remains of their mansion; but who cleared out the body/ies? They get shipped of straight to the Poe's and that is that.
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Post by Dante on Mar 29, 2017 15:10:57 GMT -5
It is very convenient, of course, because it nicely dodges the issue of whether there were any bodies to bury. Knowing that two bodies had been pulled from the ruins would render the subsequent "survivor of the fire" plotline considerably more complex. I would suggest that the bodies were completely incinerated in the blaze and could not be reconstructed. Thus there was no funeral, though there may have been some other form of memorial service. Perhaps Mr. Poe even thought it better that the children not attend? The series clearly just doesn't want to address the issue.
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Post by gliquey on Mar 31, 2017 5:48:36 GMT -5
There is no mention of Monty having a funeral either. Mr. Poe not allowing the children to attend would be a very good explanation for the absence of any mention of this in the series.
However, I don't imagine that the Baudelaire parents were given a funeral. The Baudelaires see in TEE that the mansion's ashes have just been left untouched, and there are rumours that the place is haunted, which indicates to me that nobody in the city really cared about the Baudelaire parents' death or the fire. Strangely enough, it reminds me of The Great Gatsby, where I think only two people attend Gatsby's funeral due to the self-obsessed culture the books are set in - the Baudelaire mansion was close to Veblen Hall so it might have been in a region of town where everyone cares about what is "in" and "out", similar to the fashion-obsessed culture Gatsby depicts. Anyway back to my main point, there might not have been anyone who would have gone to the effort of arranging a funeral for the Baudelaires - they must have had close friends in V.F.D., but it may have been dangerous for V.F.D. members to gather in a public place with the ongoing schism and frequent murders of volunteers by villains.
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Post by Hermes on Mar 31, 2017 7:02:25 GMT -5
It's perhaps worth mentioning that TUA has a picture of a graveyard, with the caption 'Note: the Baudelaires are not buried here'. (Followed by a wild moor, with the caption 'Or here'.)
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Post by indyrams on Nov 10, 2017 20:33:45 GMT -5
I assume the funeral happens in between a chapter or so. Mentioning it would have been fine, but no other reason to delve into detail with it.
Also, to declare them dead, wouldn't they need bodies for proof? Someone mentioned that there would have been some body remains, so clearly they were recovered to be buried.
If there were no bodies or evidence of people trapped in the home, they would have assumed they weren't home during the fire.
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Post by Dante on Nov 11, 2017 3:59:36 GMT -5
I feel like a different version of the series could have made a great deal of significance out of the question of what bodies were or were not recovered, but it's not the series we got. Possibly Mr. Poe sheltered the children from the gory details.
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