The Vile Village

                           Series of Unfortunate Events

                                                           The Vile Village

The three Baudelaire orphans are waiting in Mr. Poe's office to see who there next guardian is and the phones are constantly ringing. After awhile he steps out and says everyone in your family knows about you misfortune and don't want to take them in. The phone rings and Mr. Poe answers and when he gets off He said that that was their nineteenth cousin and he wont take them in, Mr. Poe hands them a brochure and says have you ever herd the saying it takes a village to raise a child and they say yes in unison. He hands them the paper and they read the list and at the end they see it. V.F.D. The children jump to conclusion thinking it is the secret of V.F.D. Mr. Poe says he will call them. As they are waiting Mr. Poe hands them the Daily Punctilio, they see an article about the Quagmire triplets. It says tat the evil Count Omar, had taken them and that the authorities were looking for him. The children knew that it would be difficult to find someone with the wrong name. Mr. Poe walked in and said that they would raise them. Mr. Poe took them to the bus station said there good-byes and they left. As they were arriving they saw a black dot in the flat flat distance. They didn't know if it was the city of their eyes playing tricks on them. The bus driver stopped and said to walk to the black dot. They asked why he couldn't drive them there he said that it was one of the elders many rules. They got out they knew that it would take all afternoon to get to the city so Violet put Sunny on a suitcase and started to walk. As they arrived they still saw nothing but black. Not because the city was made from black stuff but because everything was covered in black crows everywhere. As they made their way through the crows were not scared apparently they were used to humans around. They were on their way to the town hall. When they arrived they saw a bunch of people and the youngest one seemed to be about eighty-one years old and they all had crow shaped hats on there  heads. It seemed that they were making the new chief of police she was wearing a visor that covered her whole face except for he mouth that was covered in red lipstick. her name was officer Luciana. They were discussing and they said that she would have to get Count Omar if he came to town. The children said Count Olaf by instinct and they said that it is breaking a rule to talk on the platform unless you are a police officer or in the council of elders which the children weren't. After awhile they said that they will talk about the orphans and the head of the council of elders "Mrs. Morrow" told them to step on the platform. They told them that they would be doing chores for the whole village and they would do the downtown chores in the morning when the crows were uptown and the they would do the uptown chores in the afternoon when the the crows were downtown and they would clean the brand new fountain in the evening when the crow were in the nevermore trees. Then a voice from the crowd yelled where will the children sleep i don't want them in my house bothering me. Then there was a here here. Mrs. Morrow said that they will be living with Hector the handyman then she yell Hector take the children to your house. A man got up out of his folding chair saying nothing and looking at his shoes. When they walked out Hector said that he doesn't talk in front of the elders because they have so many rule and they make him far to skittish to speak up. As they were walking to his house they told he their whole story and they asked him what V.F.D meant he said"village of fowl devotees he also said that they have 19,833 rules and the last one was made when they came that no villains are aloud in V.F.D. Suddenly Hector said to stop and  not to make a sound and suddenly all of the crows flew to the air and made a  circle it was a marvelous thing to see. They flew to the nevermore trees very fast for their evening roost. When they were reaching his house he said that there is a rule against using mechanical devises and the elders told him to destroy them all but he kept them and made a studio in his barn. He said that he was making an invention on a self-sustaining hot air mobile home. He said he was going to escape the town in it once he finishes it and that it has twelve large baskets connected by bridges. They Klaus asked if the village had a library. Hector said that they did but there is a rule against having any books that contain any of the rules so he was supposed to destroy them but he kept them and made a secret library of all the books. This existed all the children because Violet was and inventor and Klaus was a book worm. They told Hector about the Quagmire triplets and how Duncan was a journalist and Isadora was a poet and she wrote two lined couplets. Hector took a piece of paper out of his pocket and gave it to Violet they read:

                              For sapphires we are held here
                              Only you can end our fear
They knew that it was Isadora who sent it because they were taken because of their parents famous sapphires. When they got inside Hector said that when they found the Quagmires that he has enough rooms in his house for them to stay with them. They were excited that Hector said that because the Quagmires were their only friends. They knew that the Quagmires were in the village and they thought that they might be in the nevermore trees so they stayed up all night looking out of the window too see if Olaf takes them to a different location. The whole night nothing happened and when the crows flew away and the nevermore tree and no leaves on it and the Quagmires were no in it. They woke up Hector and they saw a couplet that said:
                                      Until dawn comes we cannot speak
                                       No words can come from this sad beak

This they knew came from the Quagmires and they were communicating with them. On there way to do the chores they thought about the couplets. Their chores were unbelievable they had to make fudge sundaes for all the council of elders and then they had to take out the garbage and recycling for the whole village then clean Mr. Lesko's house and finally clean the fountain. The whole time they didn't notice they were doing until they were cleaning the fountain and two elders came up to them and asked to speak to Hector. Hector was to skittish to speak to Violet say Hector is busy right now may i take a message. They said to tell him that they have captured count Olaf and to come to the town hall.The elders also said that they put quiet a bit of nuts on their sundaes. They went and they brought out who was thought to be Olaf. He had a unobrow and a tattoo of an eye on his ankle but he was not count Olaf and the children were the only that believed him. They stood up and said he was not Olaf then Jacques said OOOO Baudelaire's I am so happy you are alive, your parents- and officer Luciana covered his mouth. She put him in jail the Mrs. Morrow said that he will be burned at the stake tomorrow after breakfast. The children and Hector rushed back to the house. Violet and Hector worked on his hot air mobile home, Klaus read in the library and Sunny waited under the tree for the next couplet. They waited and read and invented all night and when they herd the crows leave they went to get Sunny and the couplet. It read:

                                           The first thing you read contains the clue:

                                            An initial way to speak to you

This dint help at all. They rushed to the jail to brake Jacques out when they got there they walked in and they saw Jacques ....... dead in his cell murdered. All the towns people walked in and saw him to. All the sudden there was a snap and a man walked in. He had sunglasses that covered his whole face, shiny silver pants and a huge gold chain on and no shirt, it was count Olaf. He said he was detective Dupin and he solved the murder he said that the Baudelaire's did it he showed a pink ribbon with daises on it, violet said that she would never have such a ribbon and she had hers. Then he showed the crowd a lens from Klaus's glasses but he had both of his lenses. The crowd was convinced they did it even tough they had their stuff  and then Dupin said that his body is covered in teeth marks and he said Sunny bit him to death. The Baudelaire were put in jail and were going to be burned at the stake tomorrow after lunch. They were in jail waiting and trying to find a way out and Olaf came to the door and said that one of you is going to escape tomorrow and live with me. As he left he children shuddered at the idea that one of them would live with them. They refused to entertain that notion. They thought of the couplets that Isadora sent them. As they were waiting and thinking on how to get out officer Luciana came and gave them a pitcher of water and a loaf of spongy bread and she said that she didn't want to give them the water a bread but it was the rules that each prisoner gets one pitcher of water a one loaf of bread. Violet handed Klaus the loaf of bread and he started to cry. He remember that it was his birthday the bread reminded him when his parents made him bread pudding and it tasted horrible. His parents promised him that they would make him the best meal he had ever had on his next birthday. Then all three Baudelaire started to cry remembering their parents. Then Violet realized that if they took the bench off the wall and put it against the wall and then put the bread against the bottom of the board and poured the water down the bench and the bread soaked up the water the mortar that held the bricks together would start to dissolve and they would get out. As they started it seemed nothing was happening to the filthy wall of the cell but after  an hour the mortar got mushy at the touch. They saw that it was working. They started to doze off so they started to talk about the couplets Isadora had left for them. The couplets were so confusing that the three smart kids couldn't figure the secret out all night. It was getting hard for Violet to hold the board to the wall, Sunny to hand the bread to Klaus, and Klaus to squeeze the bread. Once they herd the crows that come in the morning they knew they didn't have long only until after lunch. Then they herd a psst
                                     

                                     Inside these letters the eye will see
                                     Nearby are your friends, and V.F.D.
Instantly Klaus knew where they were, it was right in the letters it was just hidden very well it was in the third one it said the word initial which means first and the answer was the first letter in each line
                                     For sapphires we are held here
                                     Only you can end our fear

                                    Until dawn comes we cannot speak
                                    No words can come this sad beak

                                    The first thung you read contains the clue:
                                    An initial way to speak to you

                                   Inside these letters the eyewill see
                                  Nearby are your friends, and V.F.D.

The Quagmires are in the fountain. The Baudalaire orphans knew that they didnt have much time before the village came to burn them at the stake. They stopped pouring the water down and started to pick up the bench and then they started to ram the wall. The first ram left a dent in some of the bricks. The second time they dented more bricks. The third time they hit the wall and left a big crack and they were free. The jail was right next to the fountain so they could get the Quagmires out but they didnt know how to get them out of it they thought about the couplets and Klaus remembered this sad beak so Sunny go on Klauses back and Klaus got on Violets back and Sunny could reach the top. Violet started to wobble and Violet made Klaus wobble and they both fell down scrapping there knees and their elbows. Sunny was still hanging on by here teeth but she was still sliding down by here teeth. She bit the eyeand the fountain slowly split in half gently leaving Sunny on the ground and letting the soaked Quagmires out. They were as wet has could be. They saw the village coming don the street with their touches. The orphans rushed down a different street and the Quagmires answered how they got the notes to them by reaching through the beak and it was wet so it stuck to the crows leg and it dried on fell off at the nevermore tree. They turned the corner and the mob saw them and chased them. they ran to Hectors as fast as they could. When they got there Hector was already in the air and he dropped the ladder. The Quagmires get on the ladder and climb up and Hector helps them in. When the Baudalires got on the ladder Hector got the hot air mobile home. officer Luciana brought out a harpoon and tried to shoot the mobile home down. She had four hooks and she fired the first one and hit a tank. They lost their cranberry juice supply and she fired again and hit the sixth basket and they lost their battery supply. She shot once more and hit the ladder and the rope started to unravel and Violet knew that they had to go down and the crows started to come. They started to go down and they reached the ground. The Quagmires dropped their notebooks with crushul information in them and the last harpoon was fired and it hit both of the notebooks in the air. Then Olaf came up in a motorcycle and got close to the children and took his suglasses off and read the the daily punctilio and it said that the athorities are looking for Veronica, Klyde, and Susie Baudalaire who murdered Count Omar. The hapoon that officer Luciana shot didnt only hit the notenooks but also a crow. Hurting a crow is the #1 rule not to do. The crowd saw Olaf with his glasses off and knew it was him. He yelled for Esme to get on and officer Luciana took off her helmet to revile that she was Esme Squalor. Her and Olaf got away on his motorcycle. The whole V.F.D village rushed the injured crow to the vet. The Baudailares rushed and got all the papers from the Quamires and got very few. The Baudalaires were now homeless and could not go back with Mr. Poe


I think this book is the best of the series. I read the whole book that is 256 pages from monday to saturday. The blogging is making me want to read.