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Compare And Contrast Charles And Miss Awful

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19% of students are troublemakers! In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting these awesome stories, both are about the bad behavior of a person: Charles by Shirley Jackson and
Miss Awful by Arthur Cavanaugh. I will compare the setting, characters, theme, and events.
In Charles, a kindergartener named Laurie is telling his parents about a student named Charles that is being rude and disrespectful. He does things such as hitting the teacher, throwing chalk, saying bad words, and hurting other students. Towards the end, Charles becomes nicer and even helps the teacher with handing out papers. When Laurie's mom goes to a PTA meeting at the end of the book, she finds the teacher and asks about Charles, the teacher says that there is no student with that name. You can infer …show more content…

This substitute, named Miss Orville is much more strict, and this causes uneasiness among the students. The first thing she does is rearrange the desks, she then requires them to show their weekend homework, and takes Roger's toys. Roger's mom notices that he is changed and now desperately does his homework and shines his shoes, on Miss Orville's last day the students are disrespectful and pluck her plant's petals off.
Roger stands up and correctly spells words he incorrectly spelled earlier in the book to show that she did help him learn. The theme of this story is "strict teachers are good teachers"
These stories, while being very different, have similarities. Both take place in schools, just in different grades, the date seems relatively modern in both, and both have. a mean person, but one is an adult and one is a child. The season is probably fall, because that is when school starts.
Charles and Roger are about the same age, give or take a year. Both have to do with the behavior
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