Recurring themes

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There are many recurring plot events, characters and themes in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

#	Title	Guardian & unofficial guardians (book 8+)	Disguises - Olaf (2-8, 13)/Baudelaire(8-12)	Characters introduced	Deaths	Type of Library	Significant Events	Lemony Snicket's letter referring to next book
1	The Bad Beginning	Count Olaf	-	Violet, Klaus, Sunny, Mr. Poe, Justice Strauss, Count Olaf's theatre troupe	Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire	Law	Series begins	Typed on normal sheet of paper
2	The Reptile Room	Uncle Monty	Stephano	Bruce	Gustav Sebald, Uncle Monty	Herpetological	Olaf's first definite murder	Typed on normal sheet of paper
3	The Wide Window	Aunt Josephine	Captain "Julio" Sham	Waiter at The Anxious Clown	Aunt Josephine	Grammatical	House falls into lake	Typed on normal sheet of paper
4	The Miserable Mill	Sir and Charles	Shirley T. Sinoit-Pécer	Dr. Orwell, Phil	Original Forman, Dr. Orwell	Understocked	Klaus is hypnotized multiple times	Ripped sheet of paper
5	The Austere Academy	Prufrock Prep, specifically Vice Principal Nero	Coach Genghis	Vice Principal Nero, Carmelita Spats, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass	Miss Tench	School	Quagmires are kidnapped, first mention of V.F.D.	Fancy piece of paper
6	The Ersatz Elevator	Jerome and Esmé Squalor	Gunther	-	-	Books on what's "in"	Baudelaires discover tunnel	Very wet sheet of paper
7	The Vile Village	Village of Fowl Devotees, specifically Hector	Detective Dupin	Hector, Jacques Snicket, Council of Elders	Chief of Police, Jacques Snicket	Rules, Hector's secret library	Baudelaires framed for murder, Quagmires escape in balloon, first appearance of the Harpoon Gun	Telegram
8	The Hostile Hospital	Hal	Mattathias, Laura V. Bleediotie, Dr. Tocuna, Nurse Flo	Hal	Babs, The person of indeterminate gender	Library of Records	Baudelaires ponder their own morality, first appearance of the Snicket file	Letter is almost destroyed, only a few scraps remain
9	The Carnivorous Carnival	Madame Lulu	Beverly and Elliot the two-headed freak and Chabo the Wolf Baby	Hugo, Colette, Kevin	The Bald-Headed Man, Madame Lulu	Archival	Snicket file discovered & orphans learn location of V.F.D. headquarters	Normal sheet of paper; letters fading away
10	The Slippery Slope	Bruce and the Snow Scouts	Snow Scouts	Quigley Quagmire, The Man With a Beard but No Hair and the Woman With Hair but No Beard	-	V.F.D.	V.F.D. headquarters burned; Carmelita returns; sugar bowl first mentioned in dialogue; Sunny grows up; two powdered face women leave count olaf's troup	Very wet sheet of paper; first time book name is hidden
11	The Grim Grotto	Captain Widdershins	Scuba Divers	Fiona, Kit Snicket	-	Mycological	Olaf gets Medusoid Mycelium, Fernald's history revealed	Several torn sheets of paper from Hotel Denouement; book name hidden again
12	The Penultimate Peril	Frank, Ernest, and Dewey Denouement	Concierges	Frank and Ernest Denouement	Dewey Denouement, unknown number of V.F.D. members	Hotel/Catalog	Revealed that Count Olaf was orphaned when his parents were killed by poison darts; last safe place burned down; an uncertain number of regular characters are killed	napkin; book name is mentioned - but unknown to the reader
13	The End	Ishmael, Islanders	Olaf as Kit Snicket	Friday, Ishmael, Islanders, Beatrice Baudelaire (Kit Snicket's child)	Kit Snicket and Count Olaf	Arboretum	Kit Snicket gives birth to the second Beatrice; Kit Snicket and Count Olaf die; the series ends	Letter to Editor on typewriter paper referring to Chapter Fourteen.