The Similarities Between Laurie And Charles, By Shirley Jackson

Pauline and her siblings lived a life filled with fear. She was taught at a very young age about the challenges that her parents had gone through in order for her and her sibling to lead a better life. Pauline and her siblings faced physical abuse from their demanding and controlling father. Only the letter ‘A’ was accepted on their school report caard… anything below that deserved a wack with a stick from their abusive father.

The issues in this case study involve Melinda Smith, a veteran special education teacher, Derrick Yate, a student with behavioral disorder, Greg, the school principal, Barba Cole, the school social worker, Mrs. Yates, Derrick’s mom and Mr. Douglas, a general education teacher. Besides being a student with behavioral disorder, Derrick was low achieving and had developed a notorious reputation around school. According to Karen, one of the fifth-grade teachers, “Derrick has terrorized everyone”. Despites all the putdowns on Derrick, Mrs. Smith decides to take on the challenge to straighten his behavior.

The book Charles written by Shirley Jackson is about a young boy into his first month of kindergarten. He would always come home and talk about a boy named Charles. Charles is a troublemaker, who was also a bad influence. Whenever Laurie talked about Charles, it would be about what he did, and how he would be punished. Everyone has been taught in their childhood to follow the rules or else there could be consequences. This is shown mainly in the book Charles. Charles is always getting into trouble. Every time that Laurie talks about him, it’s about how he gets punished and what he did to get punished. This is shown many times throughout the story and here are some reasons.

In Shirley Jackson’s realistic fiction story, "Charles," a kindergartener named Laurie lies about the existence of a troublemaker named Charles. He tells his parents that Charles has been hitting students, hurting other students, and generally being a bad influence. Shirley Jackson teaches his readers that that lying can create many problems that will hurt them, and he shows this lesson through 1st person perspective and word choice.

Her eyes were blinded by the sight of the lightning. Margot stepped slowly out of the closet. She looked at all of her so called “friends” thinking of why they did this to her. She thought, “What did I do to them to deserve this?” She had never shoved their faces in the dirt, or stolen their lunches, she had never spoken a word to anyone. Maybe that was the problem? She cared for the other children even though, they were not as intelligent or self-assured as she was. She didn’t degrade them for this, in fact, she wanted to be like them. Margot hated every part of being different. She wanted to forget the sun that she used to see and be like the children.

Laurie, at first, did not seem at all interested. But when Laurie’s father and I both said that we knew that he was Charles, he just stared at us. “Laurie, or should I say Charles,” said Laurie’s father, “Your mother and I are very upset at your behavior.” “Lying to us is never the right thing to do. Not to talk about all the other trouble you have caused. Kicking the teacher, yelling in the classroom, being fresh, and telling other kids to say swear words is absolutely not ok Laurie!” I could see that Laurie felt a sense of fear. “Laurie,” I said, “Your father and I are going to have to punish you for what you have done. But first, we need you to apologize to your teacher and all of the students for your behavior during the past couple weeks. Do you know what it means to apologize?” “It means to say sorry,” said Laurie. “Correct,” I said. “So when you go to school today, I will ask your teacher to give you a chance to have a word

By: Laurie H. Anderson Book Report By: Jasmin Ruiz Summery of plot 16 year old Mattie Cook lives with hard working mother Lucille, former captain grandfather and freed slave Eliza who serves as there cook. Things go well running the coffeehouse until fever breaks out in Philadelphia where they lived Mattie is forced to watch the people around her die of yellow fever including her mother. She and her grandfather flee the country to get away from the epidemic but they are turned away from accusation of having yellow fever. As her grandfather grows weak, Mattie must learn to survive and manage in a place filled with disease. Setting & Time Period

Parents are usually good at knowing their children. They usually know their children’s favorite color. They know whether their kid is a trouble maker. This is the opposite of Laurie’s parents, they don’t even know their child’s favorite color “because she tried to make him color with red crayons,’ Laurie said. ‘Charles wanted to color with green crayons so he hit the teacher and she spanked him and said nobody play with Charles but everybody did.” (Jackson). It shows that he doesn’t want to color with red because he likes green. If they knew that Laurie liked green, they would have suspected that Charles is Laurie. Parents usually know when they children are trouble makers. Laurie’s parents think he is a small good boy while he is a trouble maker “Laurie usually adjusts very quickly,’ I said. ‘I suppose this time it’s Charles’ influence.’ ‘Charles?’ ‘Yes,’ I said, laughing, ‘you must have your hands full in that kindergarten, with Charles.’ ‘Charles?’ she said. ‘We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten.’ (Jackson). This show how Laurie’s parents have poor parental

In “Charles,” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to enhance the story’s theme message. This story is about a kindergartener named Laurie, who comes home with stories of a boy

1. Context/ Introduction: For my third observation, on Monday October 17th, I returned back to the Kean University Child Care Center. Just like my second observation I came for my observation for the hour of 10:30-11:30 am. This time in the classroom there was four teacher aides and the teacher Ms. Kierah. When I walked into the classroom I was surprised when one of the teacher aides told me that Ethan has a lot of energy in class that day. She explained that Ethan had a lot of energy that his listening skills were a little off as well. Once she was done explaining this I was anxious to see this for myself. I saw Ethan was playing at the middle table with one other boy Steve. Quietly, I sat at the table to the right of the middle table and began my notes.

The madness that was Charles continued onto the following weeks. Laurie then continued to tell his parents about all the trouble that the boy was causing. His parents in shock just came to the realization that it was better to deal with someone like Charles early in his life rather than later. Charles was also a defiant young boy. To support this, in the story Charles “threw chalk” (346) and could no longer use the blackboard.

In the short story “Charles,” foreshadowing convinces us that Laurie is Charles. For example, Laurie has to think before he tells his mom about the first day of kindergarten. Laurie’s mom states, “Laurie thought, ‘It was Charles’ … (11) Charles is the same person as Laurie. The author foreshadows text in there. Something that convinces us that Laurie is Charles, is when Laurie came home late and told his mom that Charles got detention and everyone stayed with Charles but when a child gets detention no one stays with that child. convinces us because Laurie tells his parents everything that Charles does and how does Laurie know everything about Charles. Laurie knew the bad word that Charles told the little girl to say because in the story it

Evan then attended Mrs. Debby’s preschool for 2 years of his early, pliable life. Soon after Mrs. Debby’s preschool he attended Mr. Hammond’s kindergarten class. Evan lived a playful and

Foreshadowing convinces us that Laurie is Charles. For example, Laurie has to think for a while before he tells his mom about the first day of Kindergarten. Laurie’s mom states, “Laurie thought. ‘It was Charles’...”(Jackson, pg. 11). He did this so he didn’t have to get in trouble right away with his parents. Laurie invents Charles, so he doesn’t have to get in all the trouble with his parents at first, and he also invents Charles so he doesn’t have to take all the blame. He can just blame it on Charles. In Kindergarten, Laurie’s teacher tells him multiple times to stop misbehaving, but Laurie(Charles) doesn’t listen. He tells a little girl to cuss twice, he bangs a see-saw on a little girl’s head and makes her bleed, he throws chalk, he hit

In the short story “Charles” written by Shirley Jackson is about a boy named Laurie who goes to Kindergarten everyday and tells his parents about a troublemaker in class named Charles who really is Laurie. This short story shows how parents believe everything that their children say, but they sometimes can be dishonest. Laurie goes to Kindergarten everyday then comes home to tell his parents lies about Charles the troublemaker, who is a fake person. One example from the text is, “Laurie thought. “It was Charles,” he said.”