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Charles Character Analysis Essay

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Charles characterization analysis essay

In”Charles” by Shirley Jackson, the main character Laurie is a diverse character, he has a lot of personality traits. The story narrator tells the story of Laurie’s first month at his kindergarten. Laurie comes home everyday and reports what did Charles do during this day. Follow his description, Charles is absolutely a bad-manner boy, he kicked his teacher in the first day of kindergarten, he got spanked again and again, he kept pounding his feet on the floor, he something bad every week. However, after few weeks, Charles helped teacher to give out crayons, he became to a model student. As the result of Laurie’s reporting, Charles became to a topic in Laurie’s family. His mother is anxiously to meet Charles mother on the parents teacher association meeting, during the meeting , Laurie’s mother knows Laurie caused some troubles in kindergarten, in fact, there is no “Charles” in this kindergarten. Judging from the story, it can be told Laurie is an unrelenting, stubborn and thoughtful boy.

Laurie’ s unrelenting pronounced within the entire story. A example of his heartless attitude was his conversation with his parent …show more content…

He also is a thoughtful boy. It can be proved when he as the helper of his teacher to hand out crayons. “ He gave the crayons around and he picked up the books afterward and the teacher said he was her hepler.” From this conversation, it shows Laurie not only has negative personality traits, he also has the positive traits,he is enough thoughtful. He knows that it comes a parents teacher association meeting, so he acted like a good kid, he helped his teacher, his aim is let his teacher praise him to his parents. In addition, he reports this new to his parent, it also help to change their attitude to this Charles. This example exactly shows how thoughtful Laurie is , he uses his thoughtful to make up his lies and gain praise from his teachers and

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