#0442

it’s getting dark earlier and earlier, which means I get to see the stars sometimes -u-

Hi, @the-magic-storyteller!

At the oppositeend of the city, a long, black automobile took a woman away from a man she loved, and inanother city, miles and miles from the Baudelaires, four children played at the beach,unaware that they were about to receive some very dreadful news, and in yet another city, neither the one where the Baudelaires lived nor the one I just mentioned, someone elselearned something and there was some sort of fuss, or so I have been led to believe.[The Penultimate Peril, Chapter Seven]

I don’t think these children are significant, even though the parallel with the first scene of “The Bad Beginning” is obvious. It’s just a detail that ties in with the idea that the V.F.D. conspiracy extends everywhere and that all over the world people face very similar predicaments. “The End” is also very blatant about the cyclical nature of history, with the Baudelaire orphans enduring the same moral trappings as their parents on the Island.