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"Charles" by Shirley Jackson shows how Laurie used Charles to cover his troubles. First Charles starts his day by choosing bad clothes over good, like how in the text in states "My sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character" (Jackson 1).By this first quote you can see Laurie is already making a transformation from a sweet lovable boy to a swaggering character like how Charles is. After that Charles had to stay after school for getting in trouble but laurie had to stay too! It states “Charles had to stay after school. And so all the children stayed to watch him.” What interests me about this quote is how Laurie said all the children stayed too even though they weren't in trouble. Finally, They

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