In the short story of “Charles” by Shirley Jackson a little boy named Laurie starts kindergarten and gets in trouble a lot, so, Laurie decides to make up a little boy named “Charles”. When Laurie goes home for dinner he starts telling his parents about this boy named “Charles” and how he gets in trouble. On the first Friday of the school year Laurie had to stay after school because he had gotten in so much trouble. When Laurie returned home that Friday night he had told his parents that “Charles” had gotten in trouble and all the children had stayed after to see what was going to happen to “Charles”. Laurie's mother decided to go to the parent teacher meeting hoping to meet and talk to Charles’s mother. When Laurie’s mother couldn’t find
