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The title of the story is a young fake character as “Charles” it has been written by Shirley Jackson.

Laurie got admission in the Kindergarten School at the age of five years. He had first started to go to school wearing blue jeans with a belt accompanied with a next door older girl. Apparently like other children of his age he was not pleased to attend the school. On returning from the school on the very first day he shut the door with a bang and threw the cap on the floor and shouted in harsh manner “Isn’t any body here”. At lunch he spoke insolently to his father and also spilt milk of his baby sister. Even then his parents still thought him a well behaved lad.

To add the misery his small devilish mind created an imaginary classmate namely. Charles who is naughty, rude carless, noisy and trouble creating boy. Thus whatever problematic and naughty activities Laurie did in his school he related them to the fake character Charles. Each day when he returned home he brought a new report about Charles which he had done in the class room. Charles yelled in the class room. Charles hit or kicked the teacher. Charles hit a boy and made him cry or he made a girl say a bad word twice and he himself uttered bad words in the class room. He used to report Charles’s misdeeds in such a way that his parents were convinced that there existed a devilish child namely Charles who had created a kind of terror in the Kindergarten school.

One day Laurie told his parents that Charles was behaving well in the class and he was also helping his teachers with her work. Laurie told so much to his parents that they were eager to meet Charles’s mother. They wondered how Charles’s mother managed such a mischievous boy. Parent teacher meeting are regularly conducted in school for discussion of the progress of the students. When parent teacher meeting was called in the school Laurie’s mother visited his son’s school. She tried to locate Charles’s mother to express her sympathizing emotions, but in vain. Later on she was surprised to know that there was no Charles at Kindergarten school. It is Laurie who made some problems for teacher but after words he behaved well. It was actually Laurie who invented the character of Charles to express his inner desire in the character of Charles.

MORAL OF THE STORY.
Its moral is that “Extra affection spoils the child” Further parents should not believe every thing what our children tell us. They should keeps a check on them in order to know their activities.