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| Sunny Baudelaire | |
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events character | |
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| First appearance | The Bad Beginning |
| Portrayed by | Kara Hoffman/Shelby Hoffman |
| Occupation | runaway youth |
| Family | (See Baudelaire family) |
Sunny Baudelaire (pronounced /ˌboʊd(ə)ˈlɛər/) is one of the protagonists of Lemony Snicket's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Sunny is the youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans, and is described as an infant through much of the series. Although Sunny cannot walk till the seventh book and largely speaks in an idiosyncratic form of baby talk, she repeatedly demonstrates advanced problem solving skills, motor dexterity, comprehension, moral reasoning, and intelligence. In the film she is portrayed by Kara and Shelby Hoffman.
Early in the series, Sunny is frequently noted for the size and strength of her teeth. While her siblings, Klaus and Violet, often use their respective talents of reading and inventing to solve their problems, Sunny is required on multiple occasions to use her teeth. As the books progress and Sunny grows out of infancy, she quickly develops an affinity for cooking, which often eclipses her biting in later books.
Biography
Sunny Baudelaire is a character in all of the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Most of these involve her four large, very sharp teeth and utilization of them. Although Sunny is very young, her cognitive abilities are unusually developed for her age, with her comprehension of their situations generally equaling that of Violet and Klaus. Sunny is very bright (she knows big words and seems to be smarter than most babies) and recently (in The Carnivorous Carnival) showed that she likes cooking. In the 2004 film, Sunny only makes unintelligible sounds and shrieks, which are explained with subtitles.
The Bad Beginning
Sunny is sitting with Klaus and Violet at Briny Beach when Mr. Poe the banker tells them that Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire have died in a fire. Sunny, Klaus, and Violet, now orphans, are taken in by Count Olaf a villain that has came up with so many terrible schemes to get the Baudelaire fortune. Poor Sunny is locked in a bird cage dangling from Olaf's tower towards the end of the book which Olaf says that if Sunny was let go she may not Survive the fall to the ground. This act was made to force Violet to marry Olaf. Sunny is released after the fake play ends and Olaf escapes with his troupe.
The Reptile Room
Sunny and her brother and sister are sent to live with their new guardian, Uncle Monty. Uncle Monty is one who studies snakes and other reptiles. He keeps them all in his beloved Reptile Room. Uncle Monty is taking the children to Peru in 10 days. Sunny befriends the Incredibly Deadly Viper, Uncle Monty's biggest snake. Count Olaf comes back disguised as Stephano. A few days later Uncle Monty is found dead in thev living room, killed by Stephano. Mr. Poe finds out after Sunny stalls everyone by playing with her friend The Incredibly Deadly Viper. Mr. Poe takes them to their next guardian, Aunt Josephine Anwhistle.
The Wide Window
Sunny and her siblings are sent to Aunt Josephine. Josephine's husband was eaten by leeches. This caused her to be afraid of doorknobs, refrigerators, realtors and the telephone. Later, Count Olaf forced aunt Josephine to fake her own death by jumping out of the Wide Window. Klaus reads up the coded message that says Curdled Cave. Count Olaf, now disguised as Captain Sham, forced Aunt Josephine to go to Curdled Cave. Sunny, Klaus, and Violet find her in the nick of time. Klaus tells Josephine that there will be realtors coming soon to look at the cave. So they escape in a small boat. Lacrymose Leeches eat their boat after Aunt Josephine ate a banana. That night, Sunny bites Captain Sham's peg leg to reveal Count Olaf.
The Miserable Mill
Sunny works at a lumber mill and is paid with coupons and chewing gum (which she isn't old enough to have yet but bites wood pretending it is a carrot, beef and cheese enchilada, or an apple). Ultimately, she engages in a teeth-sword fight with Dr. Orwell after the evil doctor hypnotized her brother Klaus. Mr. Poe sends them to Prufrock Preparatory School.
The Austere Academy
Sunny works as a secretary in Vice Principal Nero's office while Klaus and Violet are in school,where she is forced to make homemade staples.At lunchtime on the first day, they meet mean, nasty, and spoiled Carmelita Spats as well as Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, who soon become their best friends. Sunny, Klaus, and Violet experience S.O.R.E. which means Special Orphan Running Exercises, run by Count Olaf disguised as Coach Genghis. Olaf kidnaps Duncan and Isadora at the end of the book.
The Ersatz Elevator
Sunny and her sister and brother go to live with Jerome and Esme Squalor. Jerome is kind but Esme is not. She's way too obsessed in what's "in" and "out." Count Olaf disguised as Gunther who worked together with evil Esme to try to auction off the Quagmires. Sunny, Violet, and Klaus think Isadora and Duncan are hidden in Lot #50, VFD. Later, they are not. Lot #50 is just a bunch of Very Fancy Doilies.
The Vile Village
Sunny, Klaus, and Violet live with Hector in the Village of Fowl Devotees. Isadora Quagmire sends couplets with a code that spells out their hiding place in Fowl Fountian by using the first letter in each line. Then Jacques Snicket wanders in to town and is mistacken to be Count Olaf while the real Count Olaf is actually a detective and frames the Baudelaires for murdering Jacques. So Klaus turns 13 in a jail cell. The Quagmire triplets are escape in a self-sustaining hot air balloon mobile home that never returns to the ground .
The Hostile Hospital
Sunny and Klaus disguise themselves as the two white faced women who in turn are disguised as doctors in order to stall Violet's surgery which was actually going to be used to kill her by removing her head by "accident".
The Carnivorous Carnival
Sunny disguises herself as Chabo the Wolf-Baby in order sneak into a carnival to discover Olaf's scheme. In this book, it is revealed that Sunny has a further interest and talent in cooking. At the end of this book, she is captured by Count Olaf and taken away.
The Slippery Slope
Sunny, still Olaf's prisoner, secretly discovers the location of the last safe place and signals to her siblings using Verdant Flammable Devices. Klaus and Violet finally rescue her.
The Grim Grotto
Sunny, Klaus, and Violet met up with Captain Widdershins in the Queegeg, and (along with the captains stepdaughter Fiona) embark on a journey to find the Sugar Bowl. In the process, a few spores from a deadly fungus infected Sunny, instantly poisoning her. However, her siblings found a cure and Sunny was cured.
The Penultimate Peril
Sunny disguises herself as a concierge, meeting Vice Principal Nero, Mr. Remora, and Ms. Bass in the progress who appeared in The Austere Academy.
The End
As left off from The Penultimate Peril, Sunny, Klaus, and Violet are stuck on a pirate boat with none other than Count Olaf. The four of them eventually wash up on a coastal island after a bad storm. Count Olaf is abandoned right away. The islanders abandon them a few days later, and see the distraught and pregnant Kit Snicket. A little later, everyone is poisoned by the Medusiod Mycelium. But Sunny and her siblings diluted the poison by eating the hybrid apples from the apple tree. Kit and Olaf die after reciting a poem called The Night has a Thousand Eyes together. Kit's baby is born and survives. A year later, Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Beatrice leave. They get caught in the Great Unknown. It is unknown whether Sunny survives...
As mentioned in The Hostile Hospital and The End, despite all of Lemony's research and hard work, he still does not know the current location, position and status of the Baudelaire children, though in The Beatrice Letters, the poster depicts the ship Beatrice destroyed and her whisk among the wreckage, the siblings disappearing into the Great Unknown. But The Beatrice Letters revealed that Sunny had been on the radio many times discussing her recipes, when she had grown up into a young woman, and so it was implied that she indeed survived.
Speaking
Though Sunny cannot speak fluently yet, her short sentences and baby babble can often be translated without help, however her siblings can always understand her and are usually quick to translate if someone cannot understand. Generally, when she uses nouns, it is clear what she is referring to. In the later books, such as The Slippery Slope, her baby noises are often allusions or subtextual meanings that relate to the plot as a whole, such as "Busheney!" which means "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people!"
In The Reptile Room, She says Ackroid, meaning Roger.
The words she uses usually come from historical or cultural origins: in The Slippery Slope she uses the term "Rosebud" to suggest using a sleigh to escape, this being the sleigh from Citizen Kane. In The End (chapter 6) she uses the term "Dreyfus" in reference to Alfred Dreyfus when accused of a crime. (Dreyfus was himself held on an island for a long period of time and his case caused a schism in French society.)
However, in the later books, Sunny begins to improve her speaking skills. In The Hostile Hospital, she says, "Sheer terror", and in The Slippery Slope she says, "I'm not a baby". However, her speaking skills never fully develop in the books, except in the mini-book chapter 14 in The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events) and in Book the Twelfth, she rarely responded to the people around her because she was afraid that her way of speaking was going to give away her true identity.
From time to time, she also still speaks in her "baby language", but the words or phrases she uses tend to come from other languages such as "quid pro quo" which said in Book the Thirteenth. In Latin, it means this for that, or equal trade. In the sort of "mini-book" in The End called "Chapter 14" It is shown that Sunny seems to be speaking fluently in English in full sentences and actual words.
Disguises
Sunny's disguises include:
- Surgeon - The Hostile Hospital
- Chabo the Wolf Baby - The Carnivorous Carnival
- Scuba Diver - The Grim Grotto
- Concierge - The Penultimate Peril
See also
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