Laurie And Charles

Laurie and Charles In the story "Charles" written by Shirley Jackson, Laurie misbehaved and posed as Charles to get attention. Laurie was a young, seemingly innocent kindergartener. However, he misbehaved at school, came home, and lied to his parents about what happened. This took place around the 1950's.
` Furthermore all Laurie wanted was attention. To achieve this be was very rude to the teacher and other children at school. One day Charles "threw chalk" and was not able to participate with the class in using the chalkboard that day (Jackson 346). Afterwards, Charles was incredibly impolite when he repeatedly stomped his feet on the floor. These were both disrespectful to the school and the people at the school. From there on the situation with Charles and Laurie became even worse. …show more content…
With this he was quite rambunctious. At one point, Laurie said that Charles "hit a boy in the stomach and made him cry" (347). Soon thereafter Charles made a girl in his class say a certain word. This word in particular happened to be a very bad and inappropriate word that she was not allowed to say. By physically hurting someone and forcing children to do something unwillingly, Charles had become quite out of hand. Then, for a brief period of time, Charles had changed. After school one day Laurie came home and explained that Charles had been very advantageous that day. Charles was so polite and respectful that "the teacher gave him an apple" (348). The next day, he was helpful again, and in return, the teacher rewarded him by letting him be her helper for the day. By helping around the class and handing out papers and such, Charles was very helpful at school. Although by the end of the week Charles was back to his normal self, for a short time it seemed that he had completely