Violet Baudelaire
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Violet Baudelaire is one of the main characters in the children's book
series A Series of Unfortunate Events
by Lemony Snicket
and appears in all thirteen books. She is the oldest of the Baudelaire orphans at 14 years old, and often helps her 12-year-old brother Klaus
and her baby sister Sunny
solve problems with her inventing skills. As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group.
(but turns sixteen in "The Fourteenth Chapter".) Brett Helquist's drawings suggest that she has wavy, dark brown hair. When thinking, she ties her hair in a ribbon, in order to keep it out of her face.
Violet is an amazing inventor, inventing various items such as: a grappling hook that gets her up Count Olaf's tower in The Bad Beginning
, a lock pick that enables her to open up Count Olaf's suitcase in The Reptile Room
,a signaling device in "The Wide Window
", a climbing device made from ties,curtains,and old socks in "The Ersatz Elevator
"a invention that frees her and her siblings from the jail in the Village of Fowl Devotees in The Vile Village
, some fork-assisted climbing shoes that help her and Quigley Quagmire get up the frozen waterfall of Mount Fraught in The Slippery Slope
and many more.
was a medical device developed in the early 20th century based on the coil technology discovered by Nikola Tesla
, who is stated to be Violet's favorite inventor. She (and her family) supposedly got their surname from famous French poet Charles Baudelaire.
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Count Olaf disguised as a receptionist named 'Shirley' and hypnotizes Klaus. Violet and Sunny then save Klaus by saying the word "lucky" to unhypnotize him. Klaus then turn back to normal and help the other Baudelaire siblings to save Charles from a machine and defeat Count Olaf (Shirley). Unfortunately, Count Olaf escapes with his other colleagues to think of other treacherous schemes to have his clutches of the Baudelaires.
when Mr. Poe sends them to boarding school. Here, Count Olaf dresses up as a gym teacher, and tries to make them fail an important test by making them run laps.At first, the Baudelaires didn't know what Count Olaf's evil scheme was, then, they finally found out what was going on.With the help of the Quagmire triplets (Then you find out Duncan and Isadora's Brother was killed in the fire that killed their parents),the Baudelaires were saved, but Count Olaf kidnapped the Quagmires, and put them in a cage.
which seem to be very comfortable for the Baudelaires. There, the three siblings received coded couplet
s from Isadora, via the migrating crows that lived in the village. When the villagers capture a distinctive-looking man, they think they have caught Olaf at last. Only Violet, Klaus and Sunny know that this man is not Olaf. The Baudelaires try to rescue the man, Jacques Snicket, from being burned at the stake, but they end up being accused of his murder of Jacques by none other than the real Count Olaf (disguised as Detective Dupin). The village jails the Baudelaires, who see no hope for escape. Then the bread (Esme Squalor) the chief of police gave Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, reminds Klaus it is his birthday and about the soggy bread pudding their parents made him for his twelfth birthday. Then Violet tells Klaus he can have anything in the cell he wants. However, Klaus says if they escape that would be the best present Violet has gotten him since his eighth birthday. In the nick of time, however, Violet invents a water pump to dissolve the mortar of the jail cell’s brick walls, and the bench upon which she sits proves to be a handy battering ram. After escaping, the Baudelaires rescue Duncan and Isadora from a fountain, using clues in the coded poems. Duncan and Isadora escape with Hector, but Violet, Klaus and Sunny are separated from the Quagmires by Esmé, who disguised as the village’s chief of police. Thanks to the Daily Punctilio, the news of what the Baudelaires are accused of spreads quickly. Thus, the Baudelaire children flee from the authorities.
, and they ride in a caravan up into the Mortmain Mountains, where Olaf believes one of the Baudelaire parents are hiding, based on a map the children had found in Olivia’s library. Olaf knows, however, that the "freaks" are really the Baudelaires, having been told by Madame Lulu. Olaf’s associates unhook the caravan from Olaf’s car, where Sunny is held hostage.
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Over the course of The Slippery Slope, Violet and Quigley form a strong attachment to each other. They share a private moment and it is implied that they share romantic feelings for one another. (What would become of this relationship is unknown, as Quigley ultimately disappears during the events of The End, carried off by the "Great Unknown".)
Violet, Quigley and Klaus hatch a plan to lure Esmé to them and use her as bait so Olaf would give Sunny back. They dig a pit and light a Verdant Flammable Device next to it. Esmé sees green smoke at the bottom of the slope. Thinking the smoke is coming from "in" cigarettes, she goes down toward it. The children, however, realize that two wrongs don't equal a right and that there is a better way to rescue Sunny than kidnapping Esmé. When she reaches the bottom, she runs into three masked strangers (the two Baudelaires and Quigley), who help her climb back up the slope, hoping to talk to Count Olaf to get Sunny back.
Claiming to be Volunteers Klaus, Violet,and Quigley demand Sunny's return. Olaf refuses, until Violet pretends to know the location of a missing sugar bowl (of unknown importance) from Esmé's tea set. While Olaf is attempting to barter for the dish, the Snow Scouts reach the peak of the mountain. Violet, and Quigley take off their masks to convince the scouts to run. Seeing the "volunteers" for who they really are, Olaf orders the two white-faced women to grab Sunny in a casserole dish and throw her off the mountain, but they leave sitting Sunny on the ground which is really a egg plant the same size and weight as Sunny while the real Sunny is hidden under Count Olafs Car then revealing herself in her hiding place reaching Violet Klaus and Quigley and reunited with her siblings ,while the white faced woman quit the troupe. As they leave, they tell Olaf that one of their siblings was killed when their house burned down. The freaks, the hook-handed man and all of the Scouts (except for Carmelita) are captured in a net and carried off by eagles. Olaf and Esmé convince Carmelita to join their evil schemes. The Baudelaires and Quigley grab a toboggan and slide down the slope. When they reach the bottom, the frozen waterfall shatters, and the ensuing flood separates the Baudelaire siblings from Quigley Quagmire. Quigley tries to tell them to meet him somewhere, but the Baudelaires cannot hear him over the rush of the running water.
Then, she and Klaus received the Voluntary Factual Dispatch from Quigley Quagmire, who needs the Baudelaires at a certain coded location by Tuesday, the very next day, and just two days before the meeting at the Hotel. Violet suggested that responding the code and looking for Widdershins are the highest priority than saving Fiona, and Klaus agreed reluctantly. As soon as Klaus solved half the message, Violet started decoding the other part. Olaf, having discovered the children, announced they are nearing Hotel Denouement and Fiona had sided with his team. He told them that once they arrive at the Hotel Denouement, he will have won. Violet and Klaus tried to reason with Fiona and offered her the mushroom sample still inside the helmet, which she could study. She was clearly tempted, however Olaf returns and takes it. Suddenly, on the radar, the mysterious question mark ship appeared and Olaf clearly knows what it is, as he ordered everyone to battle stations to flee. Fiona, knowing that she has made the mistake, allowed the Baudelaires to escape in the Queequeg. Violet reactivated the Queequeg, as Klaus assumed her control to escape from the Carmelita safely.
Back to the Briny Beach, Mr. Poe tells the orphans to come to the police station, ostensibly to resolve all their troubles. Knowing that Mr. Poe cannot and will not help them, the trio instead climbs into a taxi
driven by Kit Snicket, after Violet tells her siblings the coded words in the sectione of T. S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' that Quigley included in his telegram. One of the words is 'Violet'. Klaus wonders what this means, as the taxi isn't purple; Sunny suggests that it is more code, but Violet says that maybe Quigley just wanted to write her name. Violet then runs across the sand, whispering and then calling Quigley's name. This is another point where the romantic relationship between Violet and Quigley is hinted strongly at.
In this book, Violet turns fifteen, and the orphans nearly forget her birthday. The matter comes up only briefly.
When the three bells suddenly start ringing at once, splitting up the three Baudelaires. Violet went to the rooftop sunbathing salon, where she find Esmé, Carmelita and Geraldine Julienne, a Daily Punctilio reporter responsible for false reports that the Baudelaire children killed Count Omar. She eavesdropped on Esme and Geraldine on a discussion of a cocktail party which J.S. will try to spoil, but was interrupted when Carmelita ordered Violet to get her a harpoon gun, which she did so. Frank oddly asked if she was who he thought she was.
That night, the Baudelaires puzzle over how Frank and Ernest can be in three places at the same time (all of their trips happened at the same time). Finally, Klaus deduces that a crow will bring the sugar bowl to the Hotel. It will be shot down by the harpoon gun, fall onto the flypaper, and drop the sugar bowl into the laundry room vent. It is shortly revealed that there is a third sibling, Dewey, involved. Violet had encountered Frank, who slyly tried to tell Violet not to give the harpoon gun to Carmelita by saying "Do you really think its a good idea for a little girl to have a harpoon gun?" When Count Olaf enters the room, after threatening Dewey with the Harpoon gun, ends up giving it to Violet and her siblings, who end up dropping it. This causes Dewey's death. Shortly after, Justice Strauss appears, and announces a trial for the Baudelaires and Olaf.
During the trial on the next day, Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded.
Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, only to find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get the specimen of Medusoid Mycelium which he will spread through the hotel, killing everyone. He will then escape, by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they also need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees.
On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says, "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement, and Justice Strauss is possibly killed in the fire. Count Olaf gets away yet again.
Although Ishmael always tells the islanders "I won't force you", it soon becomes apparent that his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed like orders. After the Baudelaires introduce themselves, Ishmael toasts the "Baudelaire orphans" (despite their not having mentioned their lost parents) with the coconut cordial which everybody carries, but which the orphans themselves dislike.
After another storm, more objects wash up including a giant pile of books tied together in the shape of a cube, an unconscious and pregnant Kit Snicket, and the Incredibly Deadly Viper from Uncle Monty's collection. The island people arrive and Count Olaf tries to fool them with a bad Kit Snicket disguise (with the diving-helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium tucked under his dress as his supposed baby). Strangely, the islanders immediately see through Olaf's flimsy disguise and cage him. They then debate whether the orphans should be expelled from the colony when they discover that the Baudelaires are carrying "contraband" items. Ishmael decides that the children, Kit, and Olaf should all be abandoned unless they agree to abide by the colony's rules. After everyone leaves, Olaf tries to tempt the children to let him out of the cage by promising to explain the many mysteries and secrets which they have been surrounded by since The Bad Beginning, but they ignore him.
That night, two of the islanders Erewhon and Finn sneak out to feed the children onion soup for dinner and ask them a favor. A group of discontented colonists are planning a mutiny against Ishmael in the morning, and they ask the Baudelaires to go over to the arboretum where all the contraband items are collected, and find or make some weapons to use in the rebellion. Further, the mutineers refuse to help Kit unless the Baudelaires help them. The children agree, and set off for the arboretum. The orphans discover a well-appointed living area, before they are in turn discovered by Ishmael. They learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple life (combined with the opiate of the coconut cordial) was the best way to avoid conflict. The Baudelaires find an enormous history of the island, entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by the many different people who had served as island leaders, including their parents and Ishmael. Ishmael also makes references to many other people, including a girl with only one eyebrow and ear (the mother of Isaac Anwhistle) and Gregor Anwhistle. The girl with one eyebrow and ear is also mentioned in the Wide Window when Aunt Josephine says something like " A lot of people have that one distinguishing feature ( the one eyebrow ). My grandmother had not only one eyebrow, but also one ear. ".
The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Count Olaf returns, still in disguise. After a brief exchange, Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, which shatters the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, infecting the island's entire population at once. With Count Olaf slowly bleeding to death, the Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to try to find some horseradish to cure everyone. They learn that their parents had hybridized an apple tree with horseradish, allowing the fruit to cure the effects of the Medusoid Mycelium. The Incredibly Deadly Viper offers them an apple. After sharing the apple and curing themselves, they then gather more apples for the island's inhabitants, only to discover that the island people have abandoned the mutiny and boarded their outrigger canoe, ready to set sail. Ishmael refuses to allow the apples on-board, though it is clear that he himself has already eaten one to cure himself, and the boat sails away to a horseradish factory to save everyone (It is hinted though, that one apple might have been sneaked on board by the Incredibly Deadly Viper to tide them over until they reach the factory).
Kit tells the Baudelaires the fate of the Quagmires, Hector, Phil, Captain Widdershins, and his two stepchildren Fernald and Fiona. After reuniting on Hector's float, they are attacked by trained eagles, who pop the balloons supporting the float and send them hurtling back to the ruins of the Queequeg. There, they are taken by the mysterious object shaped like a question mark (called "The Great Unknown" by Kit Snicket). In turn, the Baudelaires confess their own crimes committed at the Hotel Denouement. At this point, Kit is about to go into labour. She seems to be dying of the fungus, but cannot eat the bitter apple due to the hybrid's unhealthy effects on unborn babies. She is still trapped on top of the cube of books (her Vaporetto (boat) of Favorite Detritus) but when the critically injured and fungus-choked Olaf hears that she is still alive, he takes a bite of an apple and manages to get her safely down onto the beach, giving her a single soft kiss as he lays her on the sand and collapses, still conscious, beside her. Kit recites the poem "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" by Francis William Bourdillon, answered by Olaf reciting the final stanza of Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" . He then dies. The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. She then dies due to the Medusoid Mycelium, after asking the orphans to name the baby after their mother, Beatrice. Here The End ends with the Baudelaires becoming Kit's child's adopted parents, and became the only ones on the island. They bury Kit and Olaf, apparently next to each other, somewhere on the island.
died. The fate of her and her siblings is ambiguous as they left the island with the baby girl. As mentioned in The Hostile Hospital
and The End, despite all of Lemony’s research and hard work, even he still does not know the current location, position and status of the Baudelaire children, though a poster from The Beatrice Letters shows the remains of the ship showing Violet's ribbon amongst the debris. Their boat, the Beatrice sank when they were close to the mainland as the boat is seen torn up on some sharp rocks. It is stated in a special version of The Bad Beginning that Violet returned to Briny Beach a third time, implying her survival; Beatrice in The Beatrice Letters
also stated that Violet survived.
, Duncan is a journalist
, Isadora is a poet
, and Quigley is a cartographer. The Baudelaires' volatile friend Fiona is a mycologist. Violet is depicted as being extremely skilled at inventing devices. She often invents devices to help herself and her siblings in dangerous situations, using only simple objects such as rubber bands and tin cans. Whenever Violet invents something, she ties her hair up with her ribbon to keep it out of her eyes.
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Violet is described by Snicket in The Bad Beginning as having pleasant facial features, and later on as being very pretty. In the books, she wears a purple coat with her hair in a ribbon (when she is thinking of new inventions).
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series A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of children's novels by Lemony Snicket which follows the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents' death in an arsonous house fire...
by Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler . Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional...
and appears in all thirteen books. She is the oldest of the Baudelaire orphans at 14 years old, and often helps her 12-year-old brother Klaus
Klaus Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire is one of the main characters in the children's book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket who appears in all thirteen novels. Klaus is the middle child of the Baudelaire orphans; he has an older sister named Violet and a younger sister named Sunny...
and her baby sister Sunny
Sunny Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire is one of the protagonists of Lemony Snicket's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Sunny is the youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans, and is described as an infant through much of the series...
solve problems with her inventing skills. As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group.
Character description
Violet Baudelaire is the eldest Baudelaire, being fourteen for most of the series, and turning fifteen in the book The Grim GrottoThe Grim Grotto
The Grim Grotto is the eleventh novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book begins where The Slippery Slope left off, with the Baudelaires traveling on a collapsing toboggan down the Stricken Stream of the Mortmain Mountains, leaving Quigley Quagmire...
(but turns sixteen in "The Fourteenth Chapter".) Brett Helquist's drawings suggest that she has wavy, dark brown hair. When thinking, she ties her hair in a ribbon, in order to keep it out of her face.
Violet is an amazing inventor, inventing various items such as: a grappling hook that gets her up Count Olaf's tower in The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning is the first of thirteen novels in American author Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was later released in paperback under the name The Bad Beginning; or, Orphans! The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who are orphaned...
, a lock pick that enables her to open up Count Olaf's suitcase in The Reptile Room
The Reptile Room
The Reptile Room is a children's novel and the second of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was later released in paperback under the title The Reptile Room; or, Murder! Having just escaped from the greedy and evil Count Olaf in the first book, the Baudelaire children are now...
,a signaling device in "The Wide Window
The Wide Window
The Wide Window is a children's novel and the third novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was later released in paperback under the name The Wide Window; or, Disappearance! In The Wide Window, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live with their third...
", a climbing device made from ties,curtains,and old socks in "The Ersatz Elevator
The Ersatz Elevator
The Ersatz Elevator is the sixth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket. The Baudelaires are sent to live with the wealthy Esmé and Jerome Squalor.-Plot summary:...
"a invention that frees her and her siblings from the jail in the Village of Fowl Devotees in The Vile Village
The Vile Village
The Vile Village is the seventh novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. After escaping Olaf once again, the Baudelaire orphans are taken into the care of a whole village, only to find lots of rules and chores, evil seniors, and Count Olaf and his evil girlfriend...
, some fork-assisted climbing shoes that help her and Quigley Quagmire get up the frozen waterfall of Mount Fraught in The Slippery Slope
The Slippery Slope
The Slippery Slope is the tenth installment in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket.-Plot Summary:...
and many more.
Origins
A violet rayViolet ray
A Violet ray are antique or medical devices that many find to be useful in electrotherapy. They use a combination disruptive discharge coil construction with an interrupter to apply a high voltage, high frequency, and low current to the human body for therapeutic purposesA Violet ray are antique...
was a medical device developed in the early 20th century based on the coil technology discovered by Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
, who is stated to be Violet's favorite inventor. She (and her family) supposedly got their surname from famous French poet Charles Baudelaire.
Before the series
She first became interested in inventing when she was only two years old, after she saw a fantastic invention in a museum that she went to with her mother and father. When Violet was five years old, she won her first invention contest with an automatic rolling pin. Around her tenth birthday, she invented a new kind of pencil sharpener.The Bad Beginning
The Baudelaires become orphans at the Briny Beach, when Mr. Poe, the banker in charge of the family's affairs, inform the children that their parents have died in a terrible fire that engulfed the whole house. (The cause of which is unknown.) They have to live with Count Olaf (who is either their third cousin four times removed or their fourth cousin three times removed), who's obsessed with the symbol of the eye, such as the one tattooed on his ankle from his V.F.D. days. Count Olaf is greedy, evil, and hates children. He has committed numerous crimes including arson, murder, etc., to claim others' fortunes. He makes the Baudelaires do grueling chores, such as cooking dinner for his theater troupe and chopping wood for no reason. After numerous events which lead to a pseudo-play in which Olaf attempts to legally marry Violet without suspicion, the Baudelaires reveal Olaf's evil plans and leave with Mr.Poe, to live with the children's Uncle Montgomery Montgomery,but Olaf escapes before he is caught!The Reptile Room
Shortly after the siblings escaped Count Olaf, the Baudelaires meet another distant relative: Montgomery Montgomery (he goes by Uncle Monty). "Uncle Monty" collects reptiles and studies them. He has a gigantic snake called the "Incredibly Deadly Viper." Unfortunately, Count Olaf disguises as "Stephano, Uncle Monty's new lab assistant." Stephano injected snake poison into Uncle Monty's face, then poked an extra hole to make it look like a snake bit into him.The Wide Window
Aunt Josephine, a timid character is now their legal guardian. Violet is sick of her timid ways. Count Olaf, now referring to himself as Captain Sham, appears once again. Aunt Josephine was easy to fool and "Captain Sham" made Aunt Josephine write a note to the Baudelaires stating that she was going to commit suicide. But Klaus believes it was a forgery from Count Olaf. Mr. Poe arrives and the siblings tell him what they believe, so Mr. Poe suggests they compare the handwriting with something else Aunt Josephine had written. And there is no doubt that Aunt Josephine wrote the note.The Miserable Mill
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are being brought to a place at a Miserable Mill where they had been forced to work at Lucky Smells Lumbermill by the owner named 'Sir'. They are only paid cupons and being fed 1 meal a day, some kind of casserole, and gum for lunch.Count Olaf disguised as a receptionist named 'Shirley' and hypnotizes Klaus. Violet and Sunny then save Klaus by saying the word "lucky" to unhypnotize him. Klaus then turn back to normal and help the other Baudelaire siblings to save Charles from a machine and defeat Count Olaf (Shirley). Unfortunately, Count Olaf escapes with his other colleagues to think of other treacherous schemes to have his clutches of the Baudelaires.
The Austere Academy
Violet and her siblings first meet their close friends Duncan and Isadora QuagmireQuagmire triplets
The Quagmires are a principal family in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket. The unnamed Quagmire parents were members of the secret vigilante organization V.F.D...
when Mr. Poe sends them to boarding school. Here, Count Olaf dresses up as a gym teacher, and tries to make them fail an important test by making them run laps.At first, the Baudelaires didn't know what Count Olaf's evil scheme was, then, they finally found out what was going on.With the help of the Quagmire triplets (Then you find out Duncan and Isadora's Brother was killed in the fire that killed their parents),the Baudelaires were saved, but Count Olaf kidnapped the Quagmires, and put them in a cage.
The Ersatz Elevator
Jerome Squalor and Esmé Squalor adopt the Baudelaires at the start of The Ersatz Elevator, mainly because Esmé considers orphans to be "in" and Esmé is one of the "innest" people in town. Olaf comes disguised as an auctioneer named Gunther, and this time he brings something else: the Quagmire triplets, hidden in a secret location. This location turns out to be a secretly empty elevator shaft in the Squalors' apartment building. Violet invents a makeshift rope to assist the orphans in descending the shaft. At the bottom of this shaft, they find Duncan and Isadora, trapped in a cage. Since they do not have the tools needed to free the triplets, Violet and her siblings must ascend the shaft alone. Esmé sends the Baudelaires to the Café Salmonella, while she plots evil plans with "Gunther". Back in the Squalors' apartment, Violet invents welding torches so as to free the Quagmires, and when the Baudelaires return to the cage, only to find it empty. Later, Esmé throws the Baudelaires down the elevator shaft and reveals that she is in cahoots with Olaf. Sunny manages them all by using her teeth, and the three discover a secret passageway leading to the charred remains of the Baudelaire mansion. Eventually, the Baudelaires make their way to Veblen Hall, where Klaus had learned the Quagmires are to be auctioned off by "Gunther." The orphans bid a thousand dollars on the wrong lot, and the Quagmires are carried away again. Instead of staying with Jerome, who abandoned them, the Baudelaires decided to hunt down Duncan and Isadora.The Vile Village
Following the clue of V.F.D., Violet and her siblings decide to be adopted by the Village of Fowl Devotees, specifically by a caring but skittish villager named Hector. Hector has a secret inventing studio and a library due to some strict ruleswhich seem to be very comfortable for the Baudelaires. There, the three siblings received coded couplet
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic...
s from Isadora, via the migrating crows that lived in the village. When the villagers capture a distinctive-looking man, they think they have caught Olaf at last. Only Violet, Klaus and Sunny know that this man is not Olaf. The Baudelaires try to rescue the man, Jacques Snicket, from being burned at the stake, but they end up being accused of his murder of Jacques by none other than the real Count Olaf (disguised as Detective Dupin). The village jails the Baudelaires, who see no hope for escape. Then the bread (Esme Squalor) the chief of police gave Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, reminds Klaus it is his birthday and about the soggy bread pudding their parents made him for his twelfth birthday. Then Violet tells Klaus he can have anything in the cell he wants. However, Klaus says if they escape that would be the best present Violet has gotten him since his eighth birthday. In the nick of time, however, Violet invents a water pump to dissolve the mortar of the jail cell’s brick walls, and the bench upon which she sits proves to be a handy battering ram. After escaping, the Baudelaires rescue Duncan and Isadora from a fountain, using clues in the coded poems. Duncan and Isadora escape with Hector, but Violet, Klaus and Sunny are separated from the Quagmires by Esmé, who disguised as the village’s chief of police. Thanks to the Daily Punctilio, the news of what the Baudelaires are accused of spreads quickly. Thus, the Baudelaire children flee from the authorities.
The Hostile Hospital
Violet and her siblings find shelter in a general store, then escape with Volunteers Fighting Disease and receive a job helping a man named Hal at Heimlich Hospital's library of records. Esmé catches up with the siblings while the children are trying to locate a file on their parents and the fire in the library. The file named "The Snicket Files" suggests that one Baudelaire parent may still be alive. Klaus and Sunny manage to escape from Esmé by climbing up a chute, but Esmé captures Violet before she can get away. Count Olaf and his assistants, disguised as doctors, attempt to perform a "cranioectomy" on Violet in the hospital, which would have killed her. Klaus and Sunny try to save their sister by disguising themselves as two of Olaf’s henchmen (disguised as doctors), but are exposed by Esmé and the real henchmen during the operation. Luckily for the Baudelaires, the anesthesia wears off on Violet, during Klaus's explanation on the knife he uses to perform the "cranioectomy". Right away Klaus and Sunny wheel her through the hospital and into a supply closet. Violet is able to invent a small intercom, which she uses to order everyone searching for the "Baudelaire murderers" to look somewhere far from their actual location. Violet then invents a bungee cord so that the siblings can escape from Heimlich Hospital, which Olaf has set on fire,so he and his henchmen can escape, an act he blames on the orphans. When they escape they have no choice but to climb in the back of Count Olaf's car.The Carnivorous Carnival
Having hid in the trunk of Olaf’s car, the Baudelaires emerge to find themselves at Caligari Carnival. They disguise themselves as "freaks" and are hired by Madame Lulu, the carnival’s owner. The children discover an archival library under the table in Lulu’s fortune-telling tent, and it is using this library that Lulu is able to give Olaf the whereabouts of the Baudelaire orphans. After the Baudelaires confront Lulu about this, she breaks down and reveals that she used to be a noble person, but had been giving information to anyone that asked for it, be they "volunteer or villain". Lulu, whose real name is Olivia, is part of the same secret organization as Olaf and Jacques are, V.F.D., which the children already suspected began with "Volunteer". She promises not to tell Olaf about the Baudelaires' whereabouts, in exchange for Violet’s invention of a means of escape from the carnival. Violet gussies up a pair of disused roller coaster carts at the carnival, and she only needs a fan belt of Olivia’s to complete the escape vehicle. Violet never receives it, however, for Olivia falls into a lion pit that Olaf had dug for an attraction at Caligari Carnival. The Baudelaires pretend to decide to join Count OlafCount Olaf
Count Olaf is the primary antagonist of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket. In the series, Olaf is an actor and is known to have committed many crimes as a member of the fire-starting side of V.F.D. prior to the events of the first book in...
, and they ride in a caravan up into the Mortmain Mountains, where Olaf believes one of the Baudelaire parents are hiding, based on a map the children had found in Olivia’s library. Olaf knows, however, that the "freaks" are really the Baudelaires, having been told by Madame Lulu. Olaf’s associates unhook the caravan from Olaf’s car, where Sunny is held hostage.
The Slippery Slope
Violet manages to devise a brake for the caravan using hammocks as a drag chute and spreading sticky foods on the wheels. Once they get the caravan stopped, the siblings disguise themselves as Snow Scouts and meet Quigley Quagmire. They find that V.F.D. Headquarters has burnt down. At the burnt wreck that was Headquarters, Violet learns the true meaning of V.F.D.V.F.D.
V.F.D. is a secret organization within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The purposes of the organization are never made clear, although the name of the organization is connected to various interpretations of the word "fire." V.F.D...
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Over the course of The Slippery Slope, Violet and Quigley form a strong attachment to each other. They share a private moment and it is implied that they share romantic feelings for one another. (What would become of this relationship is unknown, as Quigley ultimately disappears during the events of The End, carried off by the "Great Unknown".)
Violet, Quigley and Klaus hatch a plan to lure Esmé to them and use her as bait so Olaf would give Sunny back. They dig a pit and light a Verdant Flammable Device next to it. Esmé sees green smoke at the bottom of the slope. Thinking the smoke is coming from "in" cigarettes, she goes down toward it. The children, however, realize that two wrongs don't equal a right and that there is a better way to rescue Sunny than kidnapping Esmé. When she reaches the bottom, she runs into three masked strangers (the two Baudelaires and Quigley), who help her climb back up the slope, hoping to talk to Count Olaf to get Sunny back.
Claiming to be Volunteers Klaus, Violet,and Quigley demand Sunny's return. Olaf refuses, until Violet pretends to know the location of a missing sugar bowl (of unknown importance) from Esmé's tea set. While Olaf is attempting to barter for the dish, the Snow Scouts reach the peak of the mountain. Violet, and Quigley take off their masks to convince the scouts to run. Seeing the "volunteers" for who they really are, Olaf orders the two white-faced women to grab Sunny in a casserole dish and throw her off the mountain, but they leave sitting Sunny on the ground which is really a egg plant the same size and weight as Sunny while the real Sunny is hidden under Count Olafs Car then revealing herself in her hiding place reaching Violet Klaus and Quigley and reunited with her siblings ,while the white faced woman quit the troupe. As they leave, they tell Olaf that one of their siblings was killed when their house burned down. The freaks, the hook-handed man and all of the Scouts (except for Carmelita) are captured in a net and carried off by eagles. Olaf and Esmé convince Carmelita to join their evil schemes. The Baudelaires and Quigley grab a toboggan and slide down the slope. When they reach the bottom, the frozen waterfall shatters, and the ensuing flood separates the Baudelaire siblings from Quigley Quagmire. Quigley tries to tell them to meet him somewhere, but the Baudelaires cannot hear him over the rush of the running water.
The Grim Grotto
Now lost in the water, the Baudelaires board the Queequeg, captained by Captain Widdershins and his daughter Fiona. The siblings embark on a mission to the Gorgonian Grotto, but upon arrival, they find that the Grotto is a breeding ground for the Medusoid Mycelium. Returning to the Queequeg, Violet is surprised to find that its inhabitants are throwing her a surprise birthday party. Some balloons are tied to chairs, with the letters "V.F.D." on them (standing for "Violet's Fifteenth Date"). This surprise, however is nothing compared to the shock of what happens next: The children discover that a spore of the poisonous Medusoid Mycelium has infiltrated Sunny's helmet. They do not have much time to research a cure, however, as Count Olaf's giant octopus-shaped ship, the Carmelita, approaches, swallowing the Queequeg. The Baudelaire orphans are taken captive and subsequently interrogated, but they manage to escape, thanks to Carmelita Spats' actions. A question mark-shaped ship drives the Carmelita off.Then, she and Klaus received the Voluntary Factual Dispatch from Quigley Quagmire, who needs the Baudelaires at a certain coded location by Tuesday, the very next day, and just two days before the meeting at the Hotel. Violet suggested that responding the code and looking for Widdershins are the highest priority than saving Fiona, and Klaus agreed reluctantly. As soon as Klaus solved half the message, Violet started decoding the other part. Olaf, having discovered the children, announced they are nearing Hotel Denouement and Fiona had sided with his team. He told them that once they arrive at the Hotel Denouement, he will have won. Violet and Klaus tried to reason with Fiona and offered her the mushroom sample still inside the helmet, which she could study. She was clearly tempted, however Olaf returns and takes it. Suddenly, on the radar, the mysterious question mark ship appeared and Olaf clearly knows what it is, as he ordered everyone to battle stations to flee. Fiona, knowing that she has made the mistake, allowed the Baudelaires to escape in the Queequeg. Violet reactivated the Queequeg, as Klaus assumed her control to escape from the Carmelita safely.
Back to the Briny Beach, Mr. Poe tells the orphans to come to the police station, ostensibly to resolve all their troubles. Knowing that Mr. Poe cannot and will not help them, the trio instead climbs into a taxi
Taxicab
A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice...
driven by Kit Snicket, after Violet tells her siblings the coded words in the sectione of T. S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' that Quigley included in his telegram. One of the words is 'Violet'. Klaus wonders what this means, as the taxi isn't purple; Sunny suggests that it is more code, but Violet says that maybe Quigley just wanted to write her name. Violet then runs across the sand, whispering and then calling Quigley's name. This is another point where the romantic relationship between Violet and Quigley is hinted strongly at.
In this book, Violet turns fifteen, and the orphans nearly forget her birthday. The matter comes up only briefly.
The Penultimate Peril
Kit turned out to be driving them to the Hotel Denouement. There, they disguised as concierges as Violet, Klaus, and Sunny started their first day of work after being introduced to the hotel by Frank and Ernest, the identical twin managers. The Baudelaires are to serve and help the people of the Hotel, as a front so they can be flâneurs, and in particular learn whether the mysterious "J.S." is not helping V.F.D. or its enemies.When the three bells suddenly start ringing at once, splitting up the three Baudelaires. Violet went to the rooftop sunbathing salon, where she find Esmé, Carmelita and Geraldine Julienne, a Daily Punctilio reporter responsible for false reports that the Baudelaire children killed Count Omar. She eavesdropped on Esme and Geraldine on a discussion of a cocktail party which J.S. will try to spoil, but was interrupted when Carmelita ordered Violet to get her a harpoon gun, which she did so. Frank oddly asked if she was who he thought she was.
That night, the Baudelaires puzzle over how Frank and Ernest can be in three places at the same time (all of their trips happened at the same time). Finally, Klaus deduces that a crow will bring the sugar bowl to the Hotel. It will be shot down by the harpoon gun, fall onto the flypaper, and drop the sugar bowl into the laundry room vent. It is shortly revealed that there is a third sibling, Dewey, involved. Violet had encountered Frank, who slyly tried to tell Violet not to give the harpoon gun to Carmelita by saying "Do you really think its a good idea for a little girl to have a harpoon gun?" When Count Olaf enters the room, after threatening Dewey with the Harpoon gun, ends up giving it to Violet and her siblings, who end up dropping it. This causes Dewey's death. Shortly after, Justice Strauss appears, and announces a trial for the Baudelaires and Olaf.
During the trial on the next day, Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded.
Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, only to find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get the specimen of Medusoid Mycelium which he will spread through the hotel, killing everyone. He will then escape, by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they also need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees.
On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says, "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement, and Justice Strauss is possibly killed in the fire. Count Olaf gets away yet again.
The End
The boat carries Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Olaf away from the burning hotel. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl, Friday Caliban. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of Olaf-Land, threatens the girl with a harpoon gun. Friday is unfazed; she refuses Olaf permission to land on the island, but invites the Baudelaires onto the island. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time—all year long, they build an outrigger on the coastal shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to submerge the shelf and launch the outrigger. This is known as Decision Day, when anyone who wishes can board the ship, bite a bitter apple, spit it back out, and sail away. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs. Also, Ishmael has the islanders (most named after famous literary or historical castaways) introduce themselves to the Baudelaires.Although Ishmael always tells the islanders "I won't force you", it soon becomes apparent that his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed like orders. After the Baudelaires introduce themselves, Ishmael toasts the "Baudelaire orphans" (despite their not having mentioned their lost parents) with the coconut cordial which everybody carries, but which the orphans themselves dislike.
After another storm, more objects wash up including a giant pile of books tied together in the shape of a cube, an unconscious and pregnant Kit Snicket, and the Incredibly Deadly Viper from Uncle Monty's collection. The island people arrive and Count Olaf tries to fool them with a bad Kit Snicket disguise (with the diving-helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium tucked under his dress as his supposed baby). Strangely, the islanders immediately see through Olaf's flimsy disguise and cage him. They then debate whether the orphans should be expelled from the colony when they discover that the Baudelaires are carrying "contraband" items. Ishmael decides that the children, Kit, and Olaf should all be abandoned unless they agree to abide by the colony's rules. After everyone leaves, Olaf tries to tempt the children to let him out of the cage by promising to explain the many mysteries and secrets which they have been surrounded by since The Bad Beginning, but they ignore him.
That night, two of the islanders Erewhon and Finn sneak out to feed the children onion soup for dinner and ask them a favor. A group of discontented colonists are planning a mutiny against Ishmael in the morning, and they ask the Baudelaires to go over to the arboretum where all the contraband items are collected, and find or make some weapons to use in the rebellion. Further, the mutineers refuse to help Kit unless the Baudelaires help them. The children agree, and set off for the arboretum. The orphans discover a well-appointed living area, before they are in turn discovered by Ishmael. They learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple life (combined with the opiate of the coconut cordial) was the best way to avoid conflict. The Baudelaires find an enormous history of the island, entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by the many different people who had served as island leaders, including their parents and Ishmael. Ishmael also makes references to many other people, including a girl with only one eyebrow and ear (the mother of Isaac Anwhistle) and Gregor Anwhistle. The girl with one eyebrow and ear is also mentioned in the Wide Window when Aunt Josephine says something like " A lot of people have that one distinguishing feature ( the one eyebrow ). My grandmother had not only one eyebrow, but also one ear. ".
The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Count Olaf returns, still in disguise. After a brief exchange, Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, which shatters the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, infecting the island's entire population at once. With Count Olaf slowly bleeding to death, the Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to try to find some horseradish to cure everyone. They learn that their parents had hybridized an apple tree with horseradish, allowing the fruit to cure the effects of the Medusoid Mycelium. The Incredibly Deadly Viper offers them an apple. After sharing the apple and curing themselves, they then gather more apples for the island's inhabitants, only to discover that the island people have abandoned the mutiny and boarded their outrigger canoe, ready to set sail. Ishmael refuses to allow the apples on-board, though it is clear that he himself has already eaten one to cure himself, and the boat sails away to a horseradish factory to save everyone (It is hinted though, that one apple might have been sneaked on board by the Incredibly Deadly Viper to tide them over until they reach the factory).
Kit tells the Baudelaires the fate of the Quagmires, Hector, Phil, Captain Widdershins, and his two stepchildren Fernald and Fiona. After reuniting on Hector's float, they are attacked by trained eagles, who pop the balloons supporting the float and send them hurtling back to the ruins of the Queequeg. There, they are taken by the mysterious object shaped like a question mark (called "The Great Unknown" by Kit Snicket). In turn, the Baudelaires confess their own crimes committed at the Hotel Denouement. At this point, Kit is about to go into labour. She seems to be dying of the fungus, but cannot eat the bitter apple due to the hybrid's unhealthy effects on unborn babies. She is still trapped on top of the cube of books (her Vaporetto (boat) of Favorite Detritus) but when the critically injured and fungus-choked Olaf hears that she is still alive, he takes a bite of an apple and manages to get her safely down onto the beach, giving her a single soft kiss as he lays her on the sand and collapses, still conscious, beside her. Kit recites the poem "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" by Francis William Bourdillon, answered by Olaf reciting the final stanza of Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" . He then dies. The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. She then dies due to the Medusoid Mycelium, after asking the orphans to name the baby after their mother, Beatrice. Here The End ends with the Baudelaires becoming Kit's child's adopted parents, and became the only ones on the island. They bury Kit and Olaf, apparently next to each other, somewhere on the island.
Chapter Fourteen and Later
Violet and her siblings adopt Kit Snicket’s child, Beatrice, after Count OlafCount Olaf
Count Olaf is the primary antagonist of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket. In the series, Olaf is an actor and is known to have committed many crimes as a member of the fire-starting side of V.F.D. prior to the events of the first book in...
died. The fate of her and her siblings is ambiguous as they left the island with the baby girl. As mentioned in The Hostile Hospital
The Hostile Hospital
The Hostile Hospital is the eighth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot and summary:The book begins where the previous one left off, with the three Baudelaire children escaping the Village of Fowl Devotees...
and The End, despite all of Lemony’s research and hard work, even he still does not know the current location, position and status of the Baudelaire children, though a poster from The Beatrice Letters shows the remains of the ship showing Violet's ribbon amongst the debris. Their boat, the Beatrice sank when they were close to the mainland as the boat is seen torn up on some sharp rocks. It is stated in a special version of The Bad Beginning that Violet returned to Briny Beach a third time, implying her survival; Beatrice in The Beatrice Letters
The Beatrice Letters
The Beatrice Letters is a book by Lemony Snicket. It is tangential to the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, and was published shortly before the thirteenth and final installment...
also stated that Violet survived.
Inventions
Violet has an interest in inventing. The theme of children each having a particular skill that they are good at is also shown with other characters in the series. For example, with the Quagmire tripletsQuagmire triplets
The Quagmires are a principal family in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket. The unnamed Quagmire parents were members of the secret vigilante organization V.F.D...
, Duncan is a journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, Isadora is a poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and Quigley is a cartographer. The Baudelaires' volatile friend Fiona is a mycologist. Violet is depicted as being extremely skilled at inventing devices. She often invents devices to help herself and her siblings in dangerous situations, using only simple objects such as rubber bands and tin cans. Whenever Violet invents something, she ties her hair up with her ribbon to keep it out of her eyes.
Violet's inventions
- In The Bad BeginningThe Bad BeginningThe Bad Beginning is the first of thirteen novels in American author Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was later released in paperback under the name The Bad Beginning; or, Orphans! The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who are orphaned...
, Violet makes a grappling hook, from metal rods, a wire from the back of a photo frame, and torn clothing. - In The Reptile RoomThe Reptile RoomThe Reptile Room is a children's novel and the second of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was later released in paperback under the title The Reptile Room; or, Murder! Having just escaped from the greedy and evil Count Olaf in the first book, the Baudelaire children are now...
, she makes a lockpick, from two prongs from an electrical socket, a thumbtack, and some soap. - In The Wide WindowThe Wide WindowThe Wide Window is a children's novel and the third novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was later released in paperback under the name The Wide Window; or, Disappearance! In The Wide Window, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live with their third...
, she makes a signaling device, from a piece of cloth, fishing pole, a metal bucket, and a burning hairnet. - In The Austere AcademyThe Austere AcademyThe Austere Academy is the fifth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was released in paperback under the name The Austere Academy: or, Kidnapping! The Baudelaire orphans are sent to a boarding school, overseen by monstrous employees...
, she makes a staple-making device, using a small crab, a potato, metal rods, creamed spinach, and a fork. She also makes a few pairs of "noisy shoes" by attaching pieces of metal to the soles of normal shoes. - In The Ersatz ElevatorThe Ersatz ElevatorThe Ersatz Elevator is the sixth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket. The Baudelaires are sent to live with the wealthy Esmé and Jerome Squalor.-Plot summary:...
, she makes rope out of extension cords, curtains, and neckties. She also makes welding torches, from heated fire tongs, and crowbars, from bent fire tongs. - In The Vile VillageThe Vile VillageThe Vile Village is the seventh novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. After escaping Olaf once again, the Baudelaire orphans are taken into the care of a whole village, only to find lots of rules and chores, evil seniors, and Count Olaf and his evil girlfriend...
, she makes a battering ram, using a wooden plank, water, and spongy bread. She also assists Hector in constructing a Self-Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home using various mechanical devices. - In The Hostile HospitalThe Hostile HospitalThe Hostile Hospital is the eighth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot and summary:The book begins where the previous one left off, with the three Baudelaire children escaping the Village of Fowl Devotees...
, she makes an intercom system, using an empty soup can with a hole. She also makes an escape device, from rubber bands. - In The Carnivorous Carnival, she tries to make a cart as an escape vehicle, using vines, roller coaster parts and a piece of rubber.
- In The Slippery SlopeThe Slippery SlopeThe Slippery Slope is the tenth installment in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket.-Plot Summary:...
, she makes a drag chute, using hammocks and a mixture of sticky condiments, and a brake, using a wooden table. She also makes climbing shoes using forks, fake fingernails, ukulele strings, and a candelabra. - In The Penultimate PerilThe Penultimate PerilThe Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book starts off where The Grim Grotto left off...
she makes a drag chute out of dirty sheets from the Hotel Denouement. - In The End, Violet invents a water filter in order to make salt water drinkable. She also makes a sling for her and her siblings to use to carry baby Beatrice.
- In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (video game)Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (video game)Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a game based on the Lemony Snicket book series and film. The game is based primarily on the movie, which in turn is based on the plots of the first three books of the series: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window...
, Violet invents various things, such as the Smasher, the Lobber, the Lockpick, the Sprayer, the Lever Yanker, the Reptile Retriever, the Brilliant Bopper (Klaus's weapon), the Fruit Flinger (her own weapon), the Baby Booster (which helps Sunny jump), the Steady Stilts (so that Violet can reach high places) and the Levitating Loafers (which can make Klaus fly).
Disguises
A recurring theme in the series is the Baudelaire children's disguises. At the end of The Vile Village, they are falsely accused of murder. From this point on, they have no more guardians, and are on the run from the police. While running from the police, Violet assumes the following disguises:- In The Hostile HospitalThe Hostile HospitalThe Hostile Hospital is the eighth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot and summary:The book begins where the previous one left off, with the three Baudelaire children escaping the Village of Fowl Devotees...
, Count Olaf disguises her as a patient so that he can conduct a fake operation and cut her head off. - In The Carnivorous Carnival, Violet and her brother dress as a two-headed freak.
- In The Slippery SlopeThe Slippery SlopeThe Slippery Slope is the tenth installment in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket.-Plot Summary:...
, Violet poses both as a Snow Scout and as a volunteer. - In The Grim GrottoThe Grim GrottoThe Grim Grotto is the eleventh novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book begins where The Slippery Slope left off, with the Baudelaires traveling on a collapsing toboggan down the Stricken Stream of the Mortmain Mountains, leaving Quigley Quagmire...
, Violet dresses as a scuba diver. - In The Penultimate PerilThe Penultimate PerilThe Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book starts off where The Grim Grotto left off...
, Violet disguises herself as a hotel conciergeConciergeA concierge is an employee who either works in shifts within, or lives on the premises of an apartment building or a hotel and serves guests with duties similar to those of a butler. The position can also be maintained by a security officer over the 'graveyard' shift. A similar position, known as...
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Physical Appearance
In the movie Violet's hair color is different: it is colored light brown, whereas in the book her hair is dark brown or black.In the movie, her hair is also very straight, whereas in the books, it is depicted as flicking or curling towards the ends, and as occasionally curling, especially when it has not been brushed. Her clothes are different, as she wears a black dress, with the blue coat which is worn later. The dress notably has a lower sleeve with a V-shaped end, a feature which is common in science fictionScience fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
, especially in space opera
Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in outer space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing advanced technologies and abilities. The term has no relation to music and it is analogous to "soap...
s.
Violet is described by Snicket in The Bad Beginning as having pleasant facial features, and later on as being very pretty. In the books, she wears a purple coat with her hair in a ribbon (when she is thinking of new inventions).
See also
- Klaus BaudelaireKlaus BaudelaireKlaus Baudelaire is one of the main characters in the children's book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket who appears in all thirteen novels. Klaus is the middle child of the Baudelaire orphans; he has an older sister named Violet and a younger sister named Sunny...
- Sunny BaudelaireSunny BaudelaireSunny Baudelaire is one of the protagonists of Lemony Snicket's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Sunny is the youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans, and is described as an infant through much of the series...
- Baudelaire familyBaudelaire familyThe Baudelaire family is one of several prominent fictional families created by American author Lemony Snicket for his novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events...