Literacy Narrative

                For my literacy narrative I am writing about the first full series I ever read, The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It took me about two years to read the entire series with other school books interrupting my personal readings. I remember seeing the array of books with the same author listed on the covers in the library but never thought too much about them, but one day I found some of the novels in a different setting. I was at my babysitter’s house when I stumbled upon her book shelf. I asked her about the first three books from the collection, she told me how great they were and told me to read them.

She let me borrow the three that she owned and I began reading. To be honest I still have the books, and I “borrowed” them years and years ago. Whoops! But I kept reading the rest of the series which consists of 13 books which I have noticed get gradually larger and larger as you go. The series is about these three orphans who get sent off to Count Olaf, their parents’ friend whom they have never heard of, they soon realize that Olaf is just trying to kill them so that he can get there fortune. They escape and go to different homes but Olaf follows them around in disguises. Olaf kills off most of their new foster parents, including Uncle Monty who they grew to love. Along the way the three siblings find out more and more about their parent’s secret life. This pretty much goes on for about thirteen books. I really enjoyed these books, and the movie. I would definitely recommend the series to my younger readers out there.