Anh Ng
ELA 20
Ms. Brownrigg
In the story Charles by Shirley Jackson, the main character is Laurie who was lying the entire time about the naughty boy in his kindergarten school named "Charles". "Charles" was the normal kid at first, then he started to be a bad kid. He do the opposite things whenever his teacher taught him something. He even hit the teacher when he do something wrong. I feel like I can connect myself to the story because I was a bad student in kindergarten when I was a kid.
I remembered when I was in kindergarten, I always wanted to eat "bad foods" such as candies, chips, chocolate,..etc as long as it's sweet then I could even get addicted to it easily. Gradually, it became my daily needs. At that time, I did not know that eating too much sweet things could cause you diabetes so I ate candy innocently. When I first went to kindergarten, my teacher asked me why would I eat so many candy and is it okay if she would like to have some. I innocently told her that it’s because I love sweet things and I let her eat some of my candy. She started to talk to my mom about it and they was trying to find a way for me not to eat too much junk foods. My mom actually did not let me eat candy whenever she’s home or whenever she saw me eating a candy so I decided to hide away from her whenever I wanted to eat candy. I started to steal some candies at home and put it in my backpacks to school so that I could eat as much …show more content…
Life is about change and if there is a good things that you learned from the others, you should give it a try and try to change yourself.
I believed that this story brings us a lesson: never lie to someone about something because at the end, the truth will revealed and you could not imagine how bad it is to gain trust back, and change for the best of your life is good for
ELA 20
Ms. Brownrigg
In the story Charles by Shirley Jackson, the main character is Laurie who was lying the entire time about the naughty boy in his kindergarten school named "Charles". "Charles" was the normal kid at first, then he started to be a bad kid. He do the opposite things whenever his teacher taught him something. He even hit the teacher when he do something wrong. I feel like I can connect myself to the story because I was a bad student in kindergarten when I was a kid.
I remembered when I was in kindergarten, I always wanted to eat "bad foods" such as candies, chips, chocolate,..etc as long as it's sweet then I could even get addicted to it easily. Gradually, it became my daily needs. At that time, I did not know that eating too much sweet things could cause you diabetes so I ate candy innocently. When I first went to kindergarten, my teacher asked me why would I eat so many candy and is it okay if she would like to have some. I innocently told her that it’s because I love sweet things and I let her eat some of my candy. She started to talk to my mom about it and they was trying to find a way for me not to eat too much junk foods. My mom actually did not let me eat candy whenever she’s home or whenever she saw me eating a candy so I decided to hide away from her whenever I wanted to eat candy. I started to steal some candies at home and put it in my backpacks to school so that I could eat as much …show more content…
Life is about change and if there is a good things that you learned from the others, you should give it a try and try to change yourself.
I believed that this story brings us a lesson: never lie to someone about something because at the end, the truth will revealed and you could not imagine how bad it is to gain trust back, and change for the best of your life is good for