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The Hook-Handed Man
Eyes
Count Olaf is obsessed with eye imagery—the eyes represent the intense surveillance to which he submits the three Baudelaire children. From the eye painted on the front door to the eye tattooed on his ankle…
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Grappling Hook
The grappling hook symbolizes Violet’s inventiveness and her loyalty to her siblings. When Count Olaf locks Sunny away in a birdcage at the top of his tower, Violet builds a grappling hook to save…
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