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"Charles"

By:Shirley Jackson

Laurie tells his parents about a kid in his kingdergaten class named Charles, who is really bad to begin with but starts to get better. His mother finds out at the end that Charles actually isn't real and is actually Laurie

-Exposition-Laurie goes to kindergarten for the first time and starts telling his parents about Charles

-Rising Action-Laurie telling his parents all the bad stuff Charles does

-Climax-Laurie's mother figures out there is no Charles

Lying only ends badly and someone will always find out in the end.

Place and Time

  • kindergarten
  • school

Moral Environment

  • issues with "charles"
  • Laurie's difficulty with kindergarten

-MAN VS HIMSELF -LAURIE LIES TO HIS MOM ABOUT CHARLES WHEN IT IS REALLY HIM

-MAN VS MAN- CHARLES IS FIGHTING WITH EVERYBODY ELSE

Characters

-Charles-secondary

-Laurie-main

Laurie's mom-secondary

Characterization

-Expository-My sweet-voiced nursery school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave good bye to his mother.

-Dramatic-"Today Charles hit the teacher" and Charles yelled during story hour and hit a boy in the stomach and made him cry.

-mother's point of view

-1st person- the mother is telling the story.

ex.The day my son started kindergarten

by: nick, Sarah,dorrie

Plot

Characters and characterization

Setting

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