Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire all stared down the alley. It was not really the grimy New York passage that interested them as much as the graffitied eye on the entrance. The eye had caused them so many unfortunate events. Maybe not the eye itself as it was merely graffiti but rather what it represented. Ever since the fire that killed their parents, the orphans had ping-ponged from house to house only to be tracked down by the villainous Count Olaf. Count Olaf was after the Baudelaire fortune, for, their parents left them an enormous sum of money. However, only when Violet turned 16 could the orphans obtain the fortune. So, Count Olaf devised all sorts of schemes to steal it. From disguising himself as a fisherman, to chucking someone of the boat, committing arson, and faking murder, he really has done it all. The eye was tattooed onto the ankle of villain and was an identifying trait which here means the sole reason Mr. Poe believed in their “crazy and traumatized” claims that the person who was trying to adopt them was disguised as Count Olaf. Every time the Baudelaires busted his schemes, the tattoo proved the identity of Count Olaf.
The alley way was long, narrow, and dimly lit. From far away, it seemed to swallow the Baudelaires whole. The floor was grimy with indescribable things and the walls were even worse. It was an unpleasant place to be at midnight, but I suppose the Baudelaires had experienced much, much more unpleasant things. The eye was scribbled onto the left side of the entrance and would be inconspicuous to normal passersbys. However, the Baudelaires were not normal passersby and the eye was very much obvious to them.
I’m sorry to say, the Baudelaires were even braver than me. They had defeated Count Olaf multiple times; they had gone through dark elevator shafts, poisonous mushroom mines and everything in between. However, what laid at the end of the alley made the Baudelaires want to turn back and run as far as they possibly could.