In this realistic fiction story “ Charles “ by Shirley Jackson, In the kindergarten class laurie makes up a friends named charles that does bad things. Laurie’s mom is not very happy. In the story charles the theme of the story is lying . Laurie tells his mom about all of the things that charles does in class. After Laurie comes home after a couple weeks if school and laurie mom is fed up with charles . At the PTA meeting Laurie mom wanted to find Charles mom but then the talks to the teacher and there was no charles in the kindergarten class. Laurie made up this imaginary friends named charles but never told his mom that charles was not real and that charles was really Laurie. Jackson used sentence structure and foreshadowing to create
