Laurie Character Analysis

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A quote from the book is when Laurie says, Laurie also gets punished when he lies about Charles. At the meeting, Laurie's mother is ready to meet Charles mother, but she can’t seem to find her so she goes to the teacher. The teacher starts talking about Laurie. The teacher says, “We had a little trouble adjusting, the first week or so,” “but now he’s a fine little helper. With occasional lapses of course.” “Laurie usually adjusts very quickly,” I said.This quote shows that the theme is very accurate because the teacher is saying how Laurie wasn’t being a very good kid when they started school, but then the mother says that Laurie isn’t a bad kid. This is showing that the mother is starting to understand that Laurie is being influenced by Charles, but she may also thinking that there might not be a Charles. Earlier in the story, Laurie tells them how now Charles is being a helper which can cause some trouble later on. There is another part in the book where it happens very similarly. “You must have our hands full in that kindergarten, with Charles.” “Charles?” “We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten.” This quote relates to theme because they are both the teacher and the mother figuring out that Laurie had lied about Charles. That there is no Charles in the kindergarten. This not only makes Laurie get punished but it also makes the mother feel embarrassed by asking and because she even asked the

Parents are usually good at knowing their children. They usually know their children’s favorite color. They know whether their kid is a trouble maker. This is the opposite of Laurie’s parents, they don’t even know their child’s favorite color “because she tried to make him color with red crayons,’ Laurie said. ‘Charles wanted to color with green crayons so he hit the teacher and she spanked him and said nobody play with Charles but everybody did.” (Jackson). It shows that he doesn’t want to color with red because he likes green. If they knew that Laurie liked green, they would have suspected that Charles is Laurie. Parents usually know when they children are trouble makers. Laurie’s parents think he is a small good boy while he is a trouble maker “Laurie usually adjusts very quickly,’ I said. ‘I suppose this time it’s Charles’ influence.’ ‘Charles?’ ‘Yes,’ I said, laughing, ‘you must have your hands full in that kindergarten, with Charles.’ ‘Charles?’ she said. ‘We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten.’ (Jackson). This show how Laurie’s parents have poor parental

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Based on the story, “Charles”, Shirley Jackson makes it perceptible that the character, Charles, is Laurie. The author effectively makes it clear to any reader that Charles is Laurie. The obvious statements in this story make the critics correct because Laurie is being just as rude to his father as he is to the other kids. The mother always changed the subject when Laurie was rude to his father; many opinions are stated that his father was rude to him at home and he carried it from home to school. Many of the stories that Laurie told were hinting to the parents that he was Charles. The parents thought that Charles was giving Laurie a bad influence, but the parents were gullible and they didn`t find out that Charles was Laurie until the end

Laurie is creating a huge problem by lying. Laurie causes a lot of problems with his parents and peers by lying. One example of this is every afternoon, he tells his parents about a classmate named Charles who has been getting in trouble at school. The problem escalates when Laurie’s mother at a PTA meeting, she learns that there is no Charles. Consequently the problem Laurie has created has become a much bigger problem. Jackson writes, , “Charles wanted to color with

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He was helping the teacher instead of disobeying her orders. When Charlie realized he could get attention without being in trouble and gravitated slowly to being a teacher’s helper. Laurie’s mom grew anxious to meet the mom of Charles. She was ecstatic when she found out she would meet her at the next PTA meeting. Laurie’s mom “sat restlessly… trying to determine which one hid the secret of Charles” (349). It was finally time for Laurie’s mom to greet the teacher. Laurie’s mom praised her for being able to handle the menace Charles. Here the teacher informed her that there was no Charles in her class, telling the readers that Laurie himself was

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Some of them that had convinced me that they were the same person, were that he had to stay after school to watch Charles when he was in detention, when he had to think about a name to say to his mom because he didn’t want to get in all the trouble and because he knows everything about Charles. These are some of the reasons why I think Laurie is pretending about there being a Charles in class, and blaming all the things he did bad in school on Charles. The theme of this story is to teach children not to lie to their parents, because it will give you a bad reputation then and in your future, and it will catch up to you. You parents or who else you are lying to will find out that you were lying to them soon enough. When Laurie lied to his mom about Charles, here were some of the negative consequences that he had to face while he was in class. He got spanked several times, he had to stand in the corner, he was deprived of blackboard privileges because he threw chalk, he had to stay after school in detention, he got his mouth washed out with soap and he didn’t get to do exercises with the class because he had kicked the teacher’s

“Charles” Laurie’s instinctive reaction to grab his fellow classmates’ attention led to him misbehaving. “Charles”, written by Shirley Jackson, took place in the 1950’s in Laurie’s kindergarten class and his home. Laurie was a kindergarten student who had an infant sibling. Problems soon began to arise when Laurie

Laurie was purposely ill-behaved to capture the attention of his parents who were caring for his baby sister, not him. After realizing the stunts he was originally pulling were not helping him, Charles bounced a see-saw on the head of a little girl and made her bleed” (346). At school Laurie “hit a boy in the stomach, and made him cry” (347). All the disrespectful, rude comments and actions Laurie did were to gain back his parents attention, because he felt his baby sister was gaining more. His mother and father would anxiously await every day for him to arrive at their table for lunch. This made Laurie continue the obnoxiously terrible behavior, because he was finally receiving the attention he