The Reptile Room | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters 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.

Characters

Violet Baudelaire - This character is fourteen-years-old and has the ability to invent things. This character has a particular idiosyncrasy of tying up his/her hair when trying to think. This character's room is furnished with white paper on the walls to aid his/her inventing skills. This character must create a lock-pick to find the important evidence to help solve a murder.

Klaus Baudelaire - This character is twelve-years-old and is a reader and has read a great many books for a twelve-year-old. This character is called upon to research the indigenous snakes of...
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