Klaus Baudelaire
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Klaus Baudelaire is the middle Baudelaire child, and, though only thirteen years old, has read more books than most people do in a lifetime. He is always there to help Violet and Sunny with words they don't understand and has a photographic memory. He first appeared in The Bad Beginning, and appeared in each of the other twelve novels.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] The Bad Beginning
Klaus lived with his parents and sisters Violet and Sunny until he was twelve years old, at which time his house was burned to the ground by Count Olaf while he, Sunny, and Violet were hanging out at Briny Beach. The Baudelaire parents were killed in the fire, making Klaus, Sunny, and Violet orphans. He and his sisters were sent to live with the evil Count Olaf, who forced them to do all of his chores and treated them abysmally. He tried to gain control of the fantastic Baudelaire fortune by tricking Violet into marrying him during a play, but due to Klaus's researching skills his plot was foiled, and Olaf was almost arrested, although he escaped due to the incompetence of Mr. Poe, the banker in charge of finding good guardians for the Baudelaire orphans.
[edit] The Reptile Room
Klaus, Violet, and Sunny were transfered to Uncle Monty, their new guardian. They live a kind of peaceful life, and they are ready to go to Peru when Stephano (Count Olaf) becomes Uncle Monty's assistant. Stephano murders Uncle Monty but thanks to Violet's invention of a lockpick and Klaus's research about the Mambu du Mal they make Mr. Poe realize that he is Count Olaf.
[edit] The Wide Window
Klaus and his sisters were transfered to Aunt Josephine. His only toy there was a rattle. Captain Sham (Count Olaf) appears and threatens Josephine to write a note that will leave the children to his care. Josephine faked her death. Klaus then decode a message from Aunt Josephine's suicidal note. It read Curdled Cave. They went there and convinced Josephine to come back. Josephine didn't want to so Klaus said that the cave was for sale and there will be realtors. Klaus sees Aunt Josephine get thrown to the leeches and calls Olaf a fiend.
[edit] The Miserable Mill
Klaus, Violet, and Sunny worked at Lucky Smells Lumbermill and were paid in coupons, which was later revealed to be illegal. Klaus was hypnotized after breaking his glasses twice by the evil Dr. Orwell and had Violet and Sunny worried about him.
[edit] The Austere Academy
Klaus, Sunny, and Violet met Duncan and Isadora Quagmire when they were sent to a boarding school; Prufrock Preparatory School. A friendship developed between Klaus and Isadora, from whom Klaus learned the usefulness of a case book.
[edit] The Ersatz Elevator
Violet, Sunny, and Klaus meet up again with the Quagmire triplets who are caged in Esme's house. Klaus read a catalog and states (wrongly) that the Quagmires are inside the VFD (very fancy doilies). But they are really hidden in Lot #49, a red haering with them unseen.
[edit] The Vile Village
He reads about mob psychology and the rules of the village which unfortunately was too late because Jacques Snicket is already murdered mysteriously by Olaf. He spends his 13th birthday in jail in this book and eats bread and drinks water.
[edit] The Hostile Hospital
Klaus types a telegram to Mr. Poe about what happened to them. He and Sunny also almost killed Violet by pretending as the 2 white faced women. He stalled to keep Violet alive. They find the last page of the Snicket file which is safely kept in his pocket.
[edit] The Carnivorous Carnival
Klaus, along with Violet, pretend to be a two headed freak along with in the Caligari Carnival. His name in disguise is Elliot. At the end, Count Olaf traps Klaus and Violet in a moving caravan and takes Sunny away with him and his troupe.
[edit] The Slippery Slope
Klaus helps Violet to stop the rolling caravan and search for poor Sunny. They also meet up with Quigley Quagmiore who Violet is attached to. Klaus starts his own commonplace book. He helped decode using the Verbal Fridge Dialog that the VFD meeting will be on Thursday. They managed to rescue Sunny from Count Olaf's clutches. They learn of the sugar bowl, which is revealed to be stolen by Lemony Snicket, and not Beatrice their mother.
[edit] The Grim Grotto
Klaus, Sunny, and Violet are under the sea in this book. They meet Captain Widdershins and Fiona, who Klaus shares a special relationship with. Captain Widdershins shows them a big black question mark, called the Great Unknown. Then he sends the children and Fiona out into the sea. Fiona tells Violet, Klaus, and Sunny about the Medusoid Mycelium and how dangerous and poisonous it is. She recites the poem: "A single spore has such grim power, that you may die within the hour. Is dilution simple? But of course! Just one small dose of root of horse." Soon after that, Sunny ends up getting sick and starts dying from the Medusoid Mycelium. Klaus, Fiona, and Violet try to find a way to save her. Luckily they find wasabi and horseradish and give it to Sunny. She gets better. Fiona later joins Count Olaf and his troupe (which has the hook-handed man, who's her brother Fernald, in it). Klaus has his first kiss with Fiona before saying good-bye. They go to Briny Beach and meet Kit Snicket in a taxi.
[edit] The Penultimate Peril
Klaus and his sisters pretend to be concierges. Klaus realized that the sugar bowl was delivered by a crow. He opens the Vernacularly Fastened Door using three codes (possibly VFD) and comes with Olaf in escaping the Hotel Denouement.
[edit] The End
Klaus, Sunny, and Violet wash up with Count Olaf on a deserted island filled with people. They are then deserted on the coastal shelf with Olaf and the pregnant Kit Snicket, Lemony Snicket's younger sister. At the end, Kit and Count Olaf die of the Medusoid Mycelim as Kit is giving birth to her baby, little Beatrice. In Chapter Fourteen, Klaus, Violet, Sunny, and Beatrice leave. It's a mystery on whether or not they survived, as their boat, the Beatrice, sank when they were near the mainland.
In The Reptile Room, it is said that Klaus would spend a lot of time thinking about his present situation many years later, so it is implied that he had survived.
[edit] Personal Attributes
Klaus has always had a love for books and the ability to retain all the information he encounters. This makes him an excellent researcher, and his researching skills often help the Baudelaire children to foil Count Olaf's evil schemes.
He wears glasses, and can barely see without them.
