These Baudelaries go on incredible adventures all over the world. This one particular book takes them to the mountains in which there are very interesting creatures. There are lions trained as detectives, called volunteer feline detectives. There are Snow Scouts who are the soldiers of the mountains who care for the mountain protecting it. This one section below is about some of the interesting creatures living on the mountain.
The Snow Scout who was wearing a sweater instead of a uniform turned his head quickly to the Baudelaries, as if he was going to speak, but Bruce answered first. He said "Years ago, apparently these mountains were crawling with bears. The bears were so intelligent that they were trained as soldiers. But they disappeared and no one knows why." (79)This section is about when the Baudelaries go on top of the alledged mountain. They are talking to the Snow Scout who is trying to help the Baudelaries achieve their mission of finding information in the wrecked ruins of the VFD headquarters where there is important infomation that they can use to get rid of Olaf, and find out about their past.
I think that this passage contains a lot of mystery, which adds to the overall plot of the story. I also think that this is an example of foreshadowing, when they say that the bears disappeared into the mountains and no one knows why.
ReplyDeleteI think this part of A Series of Unfortunate Events and I loved the movie and book. There is so much mystery in this small quote it must have been hard to put the book down.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to follow this up by reading an anthology of Baudelaire's poems (if only I could speak French...), right?
ReplyDeleteI started reading a few of the books in this series, but got sidetracked, but judging by what you are saying i might want to go back and finish the entire thing.
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