The Realistic Realism Of The Short Story Charles By Shirley Jackson

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The realistic fiction short story “Charles”, by Shirley Jackson, is a good story. I like it because it shows you have clever and sly children can be. For example, Laurie would come home every day from kindergarten telling his parents about this boy named Charles. Laurie told his parents all the bad things that Laurie did at school. His parents were shocked with what they told him, and they wanted to meet Charles’ mother so they could ask her why he was behaving so bad. Laurie’s mom wanted to go to the P. T. A. meeting so that she could meet Charles’ mother and invite her over for a cup of tea. Another reason why I think that the kids are sly is because Laurie made up Charles because he was the one that was doing all those things he said Charles

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