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Book Report: The Miserable Mill
The Miserable Mill starts with Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire traveling on a train heading for Paltryville, the place where the children will stay to their new home, the Lucky Smells Lumber mill.
When they arrived at the location, the children know that they will have to work at the mill, but as fragment of the agreement, their new custodian, Sir ,they called it Sir because his name was so long that nobody pronounces it right, will try to keep Count Olaf, their nemesis, away. They encounter Sir's more concerned partner, Charles, who show them the library, which contains three books, one about the past of the lumber mill, the other one is about the town structure, also one contributed by Dr. Georgina Orwell, the local optometrist, who lives
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Orwell. Subsequently, when Klaus returns from the optometrist, hours later, his actions are very strange, as if in a daydream. On the next day in the lumber mill, Flacutono trains Klaus to operate a stamping machine. Klaus originated an incident by dropping the mechanism on Phil, a positive thinker colleague. Flacutono yells that the machine cost an excessive amount of money. The other workers ask what the unfamiliar word means and Klaus describes the word. Klaus reason out that he does not remember the things that happened when he cracked his glasses and awakening in the mill. Foreman Flacutono stumbles him again, once again initiating his eyeglasses to be smashed. This time Violet his sister and Sunny his younger sister escort Klaus to Dr. Orwell's …show more content…
Violet reads the manuscript given by Orwell and understands that the doctor’s method uses a command conversation to control the person and an unhypnotize phrase. Then, they hear the lumber mill opening early, and haste to see the things that is happening. They discover that Charles buckled to a log and Foreman Flacutono deliver orders to Klaus. The girls try to stop Klaus and the foreman. However, they see that Klaus is bare feet, a hint that Klaus has been hypnotized out of bed for a second time. Violet, while reading a book by Dr. Orwell, saw the command word and instruct Klaus to discharge Charles but the foreman continue to order him. Shirley and Orwell come and the final orders to Klaus is to pay no attention to his sisters. Violet try to unhypnotize Klaus. Violet was captured by Shirley and Flacutono, but Klaus able to to set Charles free. Sunny and Orwell have a combat, with Orwell's blade and Sunny's teeth, as Mr. Poe and Sir suddenly enter the room, Orwell steps backwards in shock, into the track of the buzz saw, and passed away.
Count Olaf is padlocked in the reading room but getaway out of the window with Foreman Flacutono, who is exposed to be the bald man with the elongated nose in costume. Sir surrenders the Baudelaires from his caution. The Baudelaires become orphans once

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