Dennis’s mother is used to having a hard time finding a babysitter because she states that they “never come back.” But when Laurie’s mom is talking to the teacher at Laurie’s school, she says “Laurie usually adjusts very quickly. I suppose this time it’s Charles's influence.” Another example of how these stories are different is when it comes to bad behavior
“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a boy named Michael who has to live with his Aunt Esther after his parents die. In the beginning, Michael is sad and grieves his parents. He has to live with his Aunt Esther because she was the only one who would take him. Soon, Michael buys a pet hermit crab to keep him company. His aunt tries to get closer to Michael by trying to have something in common with him.
In “Charles” foreshadowing convinces us that Laurie is Charles. An example of this is, When Laurie has to think before he tells his mom about his first day of kindergarten. A quote in the story to show this is when, Laurie’s mom states “Laurie thought. ‘It was Charles’... ”(11).This quote shows a little proof that Laurie is Charles, because he has to thinks for a second,since he has to think up a name that isn’t his own.
Extended out to most children is the hand of a parent offering a warm hug along with warnings of danger to their children. This is what any fit parent would do. However this is not always the case with all parents. For example in the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary and Rex Walls are not fit to be parents because they don’t give their children what they need and have an unstable relationship. Jeannette and her siblings live off of what their parents can afford when they have sufficient money but they don’t use it to give them what they need.
In the story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson the main character Laurie, Charles, is a bad person and knows it, but considers it a good thing due to the way his parents respond. Laurie is ill-behaved when he tricks his parents into thinking there is a disobedient child in his kindergarten classroom named Charles when at the end of the story it is revealed to be Laurie all along. "The teacher spanked a boy...it was Charles" (C7). This shows that Lurie is deceitful because he tricked his parents into believing the foul acts happening at school were the acts of another child t avoid punishment from them. Another reason Laurie is a naughty kid but considers it cool is because of his parents excitement towards the terrible news of Charles's misbehavior
Arthur Dimmesdale was the town minister in The Scarlet Letter, a story of a young woman who committed adultery and faced the consequences, such as wearing a scarlet “A” on her chest. Dimmesdale was a very interesting character because he was very religious but also committed a sin that haunted him everyday. He also happened to be the man who was involved in the young woman’s adultery. He was never convicted, however he still faced the consequences everyday. Dimmesdale was a man of God.
Throughout the story, Charles’s misbehaviour is shown as a source of frustration and concern for his teacher and even the parents, since Laurie talks about Charles a lot. However, the reader soon realizes that the parents are oblivious to the fact that Laurie is Charles the very troublesome kid they have been talking about is actually their son. This irony is hinted at, in the text by some comments from Laurie's mother, such as when she says, "this Charles boy sounds like such a bad influence.” (Jackson, 2) and when she shows disbelief that Laurie would do some of the things that Charles had done. This is ironic since at the end of the short story, the reader finds out Charles is Laurie.
Thoughts and messages about experience, struggle, and history are embodied throughout Amanda Gorman’s collection of poems titled Call Us What We Carry, composed in 2021. Written during such a pivotal time in history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gorman’s poems highlight the extreme emotions and compelling experiences society faced as a whole during this period of such bleak isolation. The stories translated through her words transport us back to that time of quarantine and evoke a reflection on that era of isolation. Call Us What We Carry, Gorman’s lyrical collection of poetry consists of a multitude of pieces including poems titled Essex I and Essex II. Grief is the subject that establishes the intertextuality of these two works, although
This discussion was the turning point of the story. The discovery by Laurie’s mother that Laurie was actually “Charles” was the unanticipated climax of the story. The comprehension by Laurie’s mother was additional evidence that Laurie was pursuing negative attention from his teacher and any type of attention from his
Matthew Martin Mrs. Santo English 2201 22 November 2016 Happiness in Marriage is in the eyes of the Beholder In the book “Thomas and Beulah,” the author Rita Dove tells a story by use of poetry about a man and woman who meet, get married, and live their lives together. The story gives us a unique insight into both of their minds at the same time with 23 poems devoted to Thomas’s’ viewpoint in the book, “Mandolin,” and 21 poems written in Beulah’s’ viewpoint written in “Canary in Bloom.”
The main issue in the story is that Laurie bends the truth to his parents about what happens in school. Laurie explains to his mom about this troublemaker named Charles who is causing all these problems during the school day. When his mother has the chance of meeting Charles’s mother,
In the memoir The Glass Castle, journalist Jannette Walls tells the bittersweet story of her childhood struggles and what it was like growing up in poverty. “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” (pg.34) Walls grows up in a family trailed by broken homes, and she focuses on her untraditional childhood with her parents that were too self-centered and lazy to have steady jobs.
The play script I decided to read is called Harvey by Mary Chase. The story is about a man whose best friend a pooka is named Harvey which is in the form of a six-foot, three-and-a-half-inch tall invisible rabbit (also known as he’s imaginary friend). The script is broken down into a three-act of comedy that follows the frustrated attempts of society matron Veta Louise Simmons to keep the eccentricities of her brother, Elwood P. Dowd, from public view. She along with her others feel as if Elwood behavior is embarrassing. Such as the time in the opening scene the guest of honor at a piano recital hosted by Veta is frightened away when Elwood tries to introduce her to Harvey.
In the book We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson, the Blackwoods are known to be a high class but reclusive family that has lived in the village for multiple generations, and to be a major part the community before the tragedy of losing most of the family to poison struck that made them go into hiding in the safety of their house. Although this could be deducted as an act of protection, being closed into the mansion for so long after such a traumatic event could cause multiple mental illnesses from the Blackwoods, which would only increase the hostility and suspicious feelings from the villagers, most likely directed towards Mary Katherine, the youngest daughter, since it was been portrayed in the book that she
However, Charles performed a few actions at the start of the story that really sunk into Laurie’s mom’s and dad’s mind. On the third day of school, “Charles bounced a see-saw on to the head of a little girl and made her bleed, and the teacher made him stay inside all during recess”
