The Mysterious Benedict Society Themes

Have you ever felt alone in the world? Like there's no one you can turn to, no one you can depend on? The main characters in The Mysterious Benedict Society certainly have. Most of them are orphans...

Mr. Curtain said: "The only way fears truly disappear is if you confront them" (31.57).Eleanor Roosevelt said: "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really sto...

The MBSers all have pretty strong principles: honor, virtue, integrity, good character, honesty—yeah, each of them has all of these. But here's the interesting thing: every member of the crew als...

"The Youth" is a great song by MGMT, even if the video is a little on the creepy side. But we're not talking MGMT here, we're talking MBS, where the youths are equally important (and far less uncom...

Lose weight. Wear these clothes. Drink this soda. Eat this food. These are some of the messages we get every day from advertisements, movies, TV, webisodes—you name it. Marketing is everywhere, a...

The kids in The Mysterious Benedict Society prove that there are a lot of different ways to be smart, and the way they all gained their particular smarts makes us wonder a little bit about more tra...

In addition to all his manipulating messages, Mr. Curtain has come up with a few strategies to help him gain and maintain power. His favorite method? You guessed it: fear. He uses fear to control p...

There may be an "I" in "community," but there is no "I" in "team," and that's what community comes down to in The Mysterious Benedict Society: four children assembled to work as a team to take down...