Charles and Miss Awful
Do you think children need to be taught morals in order to succeed? I do! Kids need to know how to act and be respectful to adults. Today people see kids misbehaving and being disrespectful. Why? Because no one yells at the kid! No one is discipling anyone and in the short stories “Charles” by Shirley Jackson and “Miss Awful” by Arthur Cavanaugh people can see the difference it can make in a kid if you discipline them. In the story “Charles” the setting is at his house. However, Laurie talks mostly about school while at his house. The setting affects this story because if the parents knew how Laurie was in class, then we would never have this problem. I would describe Laurie as rude and carefree. When he gets home he throws all his stuff on the ground, and when it’s dinner time he rocks is chair. Laurie’s main problem is him being disruptive in class and tricks his parents into thinking someone else is causing all the trouble. Laurie is a static character because the problem never gets solved and he never learns his lesson. His parents and teacher play a big role on how he acts in school. His parents never discipline him when he does bad …show more content…
The setting doesn’t affect the story as much as it does in “Charles” because Roger wasn’t hiding anything from his parents. Roger is a dynamic character because he went from fooling around all the time to knowing when to be serious. The teachers play a huge role in the story because all the first teacher did was fool around, while the other teacher meant business. This affects Roger because now he thinks it’s okay to fool around in school, while really it’s not. The stricter teacher was really the one that made him a dynamic character because she taught him to calm down in school. Roger also learned how to spell correctly. The theme of the story is knowing the time and place to fool around and be serious can really benefit
Do you think children need to be taught morals in order to succeed? I do! Kids need to know how to act and be respectful to adults. Today people see kids misbehaving and being disrespectful. Why? Because no one yells at the kid! No one is discipling anyone and in the short stories “Charles” by Shirley Jackson and “Miss Awful” by Arthur Cavanaugh people can see the difference it can make in a kid if you discipline them. In the story “Charles” the setting is at his house. However, Laurie talks mostly about school while at his house. The setting affects this story because if the parents knew how Laurie was in class, then we would never have this problem. I would describe Laurie as rude and carefree. When he gets home he throws all his stuff on the ground, and when it’s dinner time he rocks is chair. Laurie’s main problem is him being disruptive in class and tricks his parents into thinking someone else is causing all the trouble. Laurie is a static character because the problem never gets solved and he never learns his lesson. His parents and teacher play a big role on how he acts in school. His parents never discipline him when he does bad …show more content…
The setting doesn’t affect the story as much as it does in “Charles” because Roger wasn’t hiding anything from his parents. Roger is a dynamic character because he went from fooling around all the time to knowing when to be serious. The teachers play a huge role in the story because all the first teacher did was fool around, while the other teacher meant business. This affects Roger because now he thinks it’s okay to fool around in school, while really it’s not. The stricter teacher was really the one that made him a dynamic character because she taught him to calm down in school. Roger also learned how to spell correctly. The theme of the story is knowing the time and place to fool around and be serious can really benefit