Undoubtedly, the child who seems to have a negative influence on Laurie is Charles and he misbehaves in school. Charles’ behavior became terrible since he started school and he is behaving badly as the story demonstrate: “He was awfully fresh.’ Today Charles hit the teacher” (73). Charle is getting used to bad behavior for every moment he is practicing it. On the third day at school: Charles bounced a see-saw on the head of a little girl and made her bleed, and the teacher made him stay inside during recess. Charles was deprived of blackboard privileges because he throws the chalk” (74). Indeed, his extremely bad character is wild to everyone even to his classmates. Moreover, the teacher and the student are wondering what is the cause of Charles to misbehave this …show more content…
In my opinion, Laurie talked so much about Charles as he was covering up from the family that they may not know he was the one. He used Charles in developing his bad behavior toward everyone. Though some bad characters could be clearly seen by his parents that nobody corrected him. Laurie did not care much about his studies for he was not ready to learn or listen to anyone. Conscequently, he demostrates sippoteniously what charles did and the punishments he was given in the school. His parents did not take a step quickly of what was happening to him. In additon, they did not correct him for they were eger to know what Charles did every time. Laurie was happy for his parent intertain him to contiue to talk about Charles. Laurie had developed mentale problems that he need to helped by his