The Miserable Mill | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Futile Forest - The Baudelaire children see this place through their train windows, as they travel to Paltryville. The trees in this place are very strange and do not have any leaves. Instead, they look like pipes sticking up in the air.

Paltryville - This place is a small, cheerless town that is home to a post office, the Lucky Smells Lumbermill and Dr. Orwell's office. Not much else is mentioned about the town, other than, instead of trees, they have stacks of newspapers lining the streets.

Paltryville Post Office - This place...
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