The Baudelaire siblings find that they have become the Baudelaire orphans.
Count Olaf (never just Olaf) is disappointed in his plans to use the Baudelaire's fortune to referbish his house. Instead he uses the orphans
as house servants, chopping wood, making food and cleaning up after drunken house guests.
Eventually he hatches a plot to first trick Violet into marriage so that he can seize her fortune, then after she finds out to blackmail her into
the marriage by holding Sunny to ransom.
Burnt toast is reminiscent of the fire that destroyed their parent's death in the fire.
While at Count Olaf's they are in a culture of anger, violence and threats.
The man with a hook for a hand threatens life.
Klaus finds himself reading the same sentence over and over. Klaus defines marriage / marital, which echoes the constant definitions the author gives us.
Word play with figuratively / literally. Klaus completely misunderstands the stick / mule analogy.
Devils Tongue - history of the knot, female Finnish ???? Twisted knot.
Narrator interjects with details about his life (Beatrice, the accordion playing).
Alliteration - blushing bride, biting brat.
Tenuous plot points based on regional laws.
