'The End' of the Baudelaires

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Tomorrow will be a vile, violent and virulent day indeed as the final book in the Series of Unfortunate Events will be published. KidsPost asked readers to come up with their own cataclysmic conclusion for the tortured tome. Here are 13 sorry selections.

"Everything will turn out as you least expect it. The triplets are evil; VFD is an illusion; and Count Olaf disappears forever. The Baudelaires -- except for Sunny -- meet an end. Then again, there's always a chance of a happy ending."

-- Cassidy Burke, 10, Gaithersburg

"This is how I want the book to end. I want Count Olaf to die. I want the Baudelaires and the Quagmires to be reunited. I want all the people on the good side to FINALLY be somewhere safe."

-- Mary Fouse, 12, Great Falls

"The Baudelaire orphans are going to jump off the boat that they are on with Count Olaf; and Violet, Klaus and Sunny are going to swim to 667 Dark Avenue and find the real V.F.D. that tells them where their mother is. Count Olaf goes to jail. The End."

-- Sara Strei, 10, Rockville

"The ending should have Count Olaf die because the children were cooking for Count Olaf and his friends. Violet was cutting vegetables, and Count Olaf was sneaking up and scared Violet! Violet screamed, turned around and accidentally stabbed him in the chest. The children went to the orphanage and were adopted by nice parents, and they have two stepbrothers now."


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