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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.

Question: Why did Mary and Bill not marry when they were young?
Answer: Although Mary and Bill were in love with each other when they were young But they became angry with each other due to some thing un-important. They stopped talking to each other and got away from each other’s life. Thus they could not marry each other when they were young.
Here it is pointed out that in western way of living adolescent boys and girls flirt and enjoy many making and do not seriously think of marriage. The same thing happened to Mary and Bill.

Question: What effect did this youthful breakup have on each of them?
Answer: When Bill and Mary both were angry with each other, Bill moved away with broken heart feeling bitter about woman. Mary impulsively got married with a man whom she thought she loved. Bill got busy in his professional life as a lawyer and forgot his affairs with Mary soon, Bill also married some girl and did not seem to have bad effect as he forgot his attires. Mary looked un-happy and dis-satisfied with her marriage. She did not say any thing about her husband while Bill mentioned the name of his wife and told about his family. Mary could not erase her first real love for Bill, even after many years of her marriage.

Question: Did Mary and bill experience similar emotions when they meet after several years?
Answer When Mary and Bill met after many years, they revealed different emotions Mary seemed more emotional than Bill. It was Mary who saw Bill and stopped him in the way. Bill even did not recognize Mary at first sight. Mary thought that Bill would kiss her because they had been in love with each other in the past. However, Bill only took by the hand shaking. It was well expressed from her face that she was un-happy with her marriage. Even Mary wanted to tell Bill something about her life but she did not have time or courage to do so. Bill was calm and composed and showed no strong emotion as he had erased the past memories and got busy in his professional life. Past un-successful love affairs did not hove much effect on him.

Question: What was the last thing that nary wanted to say to Bill which she was unable to express? What do you think she actually wanted to say?
Answer: Probably Mary wanted to ask when they would meet again and she also wanted to tell that her youngest son was named ‘Bill’ In the first casual meriting, she could not talk much about the past memories of their young age and she was unable to express her feelings of love after the separation which she felt. She wanted to say that she strongly missed Bill the person to whom she had married did not love her much. She did not mention her husband’s name and profession. Instead, she told Bill about her job and about her children. I think Mary actually wanted to express her love for Bill, but she could not do so in the first meeting which was so brief.

Chapter: Early Autumn
written by: Langston Hughes

This story has been written by an English writer Langston Hughes.

Bill walker and Marry both loved each other when they were young. Then they walked together, talked together and spent many nights together. They did many things but they neither thought of a marriage nor do they seem serious about it. Mary wanted that Bill would propose to her but he did not. They got angry at some un-important matter. Bill left Mary. Growing impulsive Mary married a man of her choice whom she found to be a suitable mate to build a family. Bill left Mary and went away with bitter feelings about woman.

Time and tide wait for no man. Bill also married a girl Lucille whom he later loved and grew father of two children. Many years later, they met each other by chance on the way and they had close talk about their past. Mary and Bill asked each other about their families. Mary told Bill that she worked in Busra’s office and she had three children Bill told Mary that he was lawyer and had two kids. Both of them invited each other to see each other and Bill invited Mary and her family to join at the dinner on some night.

They had a short meeting and could not talk much with each other. She also could not tell Bill that the name of her youngest son was also Bill.

Strange enough they could not tell each other about their present addresses because Mary’s bus arrived and she got in the bus hurriedly and hardly she could utter Good-bye and again they separated probably for ever.

Mary looked unhappy and discontented with her marriage life. Autumn came in her life very soon and the days of happiness were passed in the wink of an eye.