The Good, The Bad, And The Secrets

Author's Note: I decided to write a point of view peice to meet three goals for the reading rubric and have an essay for the writing rubric. I wrote a point of view peice on the book A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket in the view of Mr. Poe.

Many people know of the book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is written by many authors (under the cover name Lemony Snicket). Very many people also know that in the series Mr. Poe takes care of the Baudelaire orphans and manages the gigantic fortune that Violet inherits when she becomes of age. Though all of this is true, Mr. Poe can seem like a bit of a bad person at points in the story. People may think this, but they haven't thought about what’s happening with Mr. Poe and what he needs to worry about.

The childrens’ new guardian, Count Olaf, basically abuses the children, so the children bring this to Mr. Poe and offer all of this about Count Olaf: “Count Olaf is a madman!”, “He makes us do a great deal of difficult chores.”, “He struck Klaus across the face.”, “He calls us orphans... ...He has terrible friends... ...He is always asking about our money.”, and the children are 14, 9, and 3 years old. Seemingly inconsiderate Mr. Poe replies with: “Children you must give yourselves time to adjust to your new home.” 

From the view of any normal person Mr. Poe seems like a monster letting children that young live in conditions like that. The children expected Mr. Poe to instantly have them extracted from the Count’s custody within seconds, in fact, you were probably think that too. At this point Mr. Poe seems like a completely disrespectful towards the children, only caring about his issues, and not giving a rat’s hat about the children’s. 

“Yes, yes, no, yes, I'll pay the taxes tomorrow don’t worry about it. Oh, hello children!” As Mr. Poe seems joyful to see the children he’s really thinking something else. ‘Ooooohhhh great, more whining from these children is the LAST thing that I need in my day.’ As the children continue to talk, Mr. Poe is thinking of what’s going on in his life. ‘Oh my goodness how am I going to pull this off?! I can’t believe I've forgotten my wedding anniversary again! This isn't going to go down well.' 

Now that you see this perspective, Mr. Poe is as innocent as the grass is green. Yet, he was an unmindful child, who had other things on his mind. So, now that you've seen the other side of the story, Mr. Poe doesn't seem too bad. Now, he's just another person who has real world problems that he needs to worry about, and is unable to juggle the hundreds of problems that the Baudelaire have. So next time you have a problem, that you need to run and show to someone else for help, take a reality check, and realize that they have problems just like you, and that a perspective swap, can change your whole point of reference.