Charles Shirley Jackson

Laurie is a misbehaving student who had often been disrespectful and also severely injured young children! “Charles” a passage written by Shirley Jackson is a story about a young boy named Laurie who avoids getting in trouble by referring to himself by the name of Charles. Laurie is a sly young child further more he can act quite mischievous. The story is set in the 1950’s around a few locations Laurie's home along with his Kindergarten where most of the story takes place. The main conflict is that Laurie is having trouble getting his act together in school. In other words Laurie is just a kid that is not completely comfortable with not being the center of attention.

Charles on his first day of school gets disciplined by his teacher for being disrespectful then after Laurie tells his parents about what had happened. Everyday Laurie told his parents about all the horrible things Charles was doing in school. “The third day-it was Wednesday of the first week-Charles bounced a seesaw on the head of a girl and made her bleed and the teacher made him stay inside all during recess.” (Jackson 346) Charles retained a true naughty attitude and continued to treat others with a low amount of respect. Laurie mostly misbehaved due to a loss in attention. He repeated these
Laurie's parents were looking forward to meeting Charles parents at the conference at Laurie's school. “Wednesday and Thursday were routine; Charles yelled during story hour and hit a boy in the stomach and made him cry.” (347) Charles seemed to be an extremely insecure child who In his troubles takes it out on other kids. For some odd reason consecutively Charles began to start to help the teacher with distributing supplies. Charles had become the teacher's helper along with a more respectful student. As a matter a fact Charles was misbehaving because he was insecure and scared of losing attention from his