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Post by J on Oct 19, 2003 13:07:05 GMT -5
All the good adults have no spines.
Hector--won't speak
Jerome--won't stand up for himself
The guy at the Lucky Smells Mill--wouldn't stand up for himself.
Also, the Bauds and the Quags seem like the only people who take action...that's one of the only things I dislike about the book.
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Post by DetectiveDupin on Oct 19, 2003 13:10:26 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe he's trying to get across that children can take action too, and not just adults?
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Post by Brian on Oct 19, 2003 16:06:50 GMT -5
Interesting point. I read Roald Dahl's autobiography a while back and I don't recall him being very passive.
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Post by J on Oct 19, 2003 18:08:26 GMT -5
Well, all the sailors are named after famous authors. So maybe the said sailors are the authors who the adults are modelled after.
I never noticed the author-adult thing. I don't know much about authors' private lives...but it just shows the genius of Handler and his readers.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 19, 2003 21:50:48 GMT -5
Well I know JD Salinger (author of "to Esme with love and Squalor) was shy. Ok, that's putting it mildly. The man was a recluse.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 19, 2003 21:52:03 GMT -5
Maybe this is just a VFD thing, all VFD people are sort of cowardly after all these fires and such. Lemony describes himself as a coward.
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Post by J on Oct 20, 2003 14:41:21 GMT -5
YES! Of course! I GOT IT!
Hector gets skittish in front of the Council because he might break a rule, which would mean he'd have to be burned at the stake! Unless its been mentioned in the books before. In which case, Handler got it.
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Post by Brian on Oct 21, 2003 16:06:48 GMT -5
well, what was Ronald Dahl like? I was just thinking Charles could be Ronald Dahl since a peach is mentioned in TMM. In TVV Hector actually quotes Carroll. Just a nitpick - his name was Roald, or something like that, not Ronald. Anyway, I don't know, but, hey - wait a sec - BURNED at the stake? Something that has to do with FIRE which all VFD members are afraid of? |
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Post by J on Oct 21, 2003 16:09:05 GMT -5
Yes, that was my point. Hector just doesn't like fire. I doubt the Bauds do, either. And Duncan even said he was afraid of fire for quite a bit.
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Post by Violetwashere on Oct 22, 2003 14:05:34 GMT -5
I'm terribly sorry this is comletely off the topic, but why does everyone call him by his real name now? Is it just to show they're not stupid? (no offense to anyone who didn't know his real name because I call him by his author name)
I kind of like calling him Lemony Snicket, it just seems to suit his sour and unfortunate books. eh hem...please continue with the topic.
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Post by Efogoto on Oct 22, 2003 18:03:22 GMT -5
Exactly! Daniel Handler writes the series, but he writes it from the point of view of Lemony Snicket who is one of the characters in the story.
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Post by The Original Klaus on Oct 23, 2003 19:16:14 GMT -5
I'm guessing it's most likely a coincidence. Something like that.
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