Laurie Character Analysis

The girl said it twice, resulting in the teacher rinsing her mouth out with soap. Then Charles “abandoned the little girl and said the evil word himself three or four times, getting his mouth washed out with soap each time” (349). This shows that Charles is malicious because he will do anything to get attention. Along with disobeying the teacher, Charles kicked the assistant teacher that came in to teach the class countless amounts of exercises. Although Laurie misbehaved throughout the story, he finally came to senses and started to behave like a proper kindergartner.

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Laurie, a young boy who was having trouble adjusting to recent changes in his life, took on the role of a non-existent boy called Charles to handle these arising adjustments. " Charles" was written by a woman named Shirley Jackson. Laurie may have posed as Charles since he was struggling to become familiar with having an infant sibling, as well as beginning kindergarten. He was a kindergartener who was stressed, due to new changes. The story takes place at Laurie's home and school during the 1950s.

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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

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The problem with this story is that Laurie did not adapt very nicely to kindergarten. Laurie believes that causing mischief will help him become popular; moreover, he created a fake student “Charles” to make his parents believe it was not him. The following week, Laurie comes home and reports that Charles has misbehaved again, receiving detention: everyone in the class stayed behind with him. Over the next few weeks, Charles appears to reform his behavior and becomes the teacher’s helper. But then he relapses, and Laurie comes home and tells his parents that Charles got into trouble for persuading a girl in the class to say a rude word to the teacher.

One thing Laurie did to get more attention was in school he never followed directions and always hurt people. He did this to get the teachers attention and to get the students attention. “Today Charles hit the teacher” (Jackson 346) shows that Laurie is acting naughty. He thought

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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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Laurie had many traits that make him a more interesting character. One of these is being naughty and lying about it. Another trait is that he is in kindergarten. We know this because the author talks about how it is his first day of kindergarten. One more is that he is proud of what he did. We know this because when telling his parents about what charles did, the author writes, “Laurie whispered joyfully.” We also know this because he wanted to tell his parents about what he did, just not tell him about the fact he did it, so he made someone up,Charles. Theses are some of Laurie's Traits, they reveal a lot about the story.

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