Every parent wants their children to be surrounded by the best of everything this world has to offer and to grow up to be well educated and instinctively aware of basic moral rights and wrongs. But sometimes, sheltering them with the kindness of this world can do them more harm than good. Daniel Handler seems to think that children are not very fragile and can handle an unhappy ending. This is exactly what he did in his novel The Bad Beginning, the first novel in the Series of Unfortunate Events. The writing style undoubtedly creates a dark and dire world for its characters. It begins with the three siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny experiencing the great grief of the sudden death of their parents. The children, now orphans, must go live with their distant relative, Count Olaf, who has no intention of treating them well. Readers quickly learn that the children will have to face more trials on their own. Since then, Handler views all authoritative figures as incompetent and they are often blinded by Count Olaf's plans. Despite the uncomfortable flood of traumatic adversities the children faced, Daniel Handler's The Bad Beginning challenges young readers to think objectively through a combination of the use of storytelling styles and thought-provoking moral messages. Interestingly, A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning has Lemony Snicket on the cover as the author and upon reading the book, readers discovered that he was also the narrator. But the book was actually written by Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket is more or less a character he invented. Therefore, turning this novel into a complicated mix of first-person narrative and third-person omniscient narrative. Johan Kullenbok wrote "The shape-shifting storyteller in Lemony Snick...... middle of paper ...... by misleading readers about the role the narrator plays, Handler also imposes the idea that the The adults in the novel are not the adults. like adults in the real world. It presents their characters as being useless and having no real power to protect Violet, Klaus, and Sunny from Count Olaf. This will challenge young readers' natural expectations that adults are there to help siblings. Finally, Handler presents the children, who are supposed to be the good guys, as having questionable moral codes to once again trick readers into abandoning their belief that a character cannot be both good and evil. The example above shows that Klaus stole from Judge Strauss to help his siblings escape from the evil Count Olaf. Handler refrains from explicitly giving her opinions to readers to let them think and decide for themselves whether the character's action is right or wrong..