Charles by Shirley Jackson Questions and Answers | B.Com English - The Learning Art

Q.1: What is the moral of the story ‘Charles’?

Ans: The moral of the story is parents should not believe everything told by their kids. If they feel anything unrealistic quoted by their children, they should go for an internal investigation into the matter.

If parents blindly believe their kids, they will spoil their children.

Q.2: Why did Laurie create the character of Charles? / Why did Laurie invent Charles?

Ans: Laurie created Charles because he wanted to disguise himself under the cover of Charles. He wanted to hide his misbehave in the Kindergarten and blame all his misdeeds to the imaginary character ‘Charles’.

Q.3: Did Laurie’s mother ever meet Charles’ mother?

Ans: Laurie’s mother never met Charles’ mother because Charles was an imaginary creation of Laurie. Hence, when there was no Charles, there was no mother of Charles.

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Q.4: How did Laurie’s mother come to know that Charles was her own son’s creation?

Ans: On the day of PTA meeting, when Laurie’s mother was looking for Charles’ mother everywhere but didn’t notice anyone complaining about Charles. Upon inquiring about Charles from the kindergarten teacher, she came to know that there is no Charles in the kindergarten.

Q.5: What are some of the characteristics of Charles as described by Laurie to his parents?

Ans: Charles, as narrated by Laurie, was a bad boy. Always rude, naughty, free-spirited and always a trouble creator to the teacher. He usually had to stay after school as a punishment. Charles even bleed a girl by bouncing a see-saw on her head. He always used to create problems in the class.

He always used to create problems to the teacher in the class.

Q.6: What are some of the characteristics of Charles? How does Laurie let his parents and teacher know what kind of a person Charles is?

Ans: Charles, as narrated by Laurie, was a bad boy. Always rude, naughty, free-spirited and always a trouble creator to the teacher. He usually had to stay after school as a punishment. Charles even bleed a girl by bouncing a see-saw on her head. He always used to create problems in the class.

Charles was an imaginary character of Laurie. He used to make imaginary devilish stories of Charles and narrate it to his parents upon his arrival at home. By this way he let his parents know that what kind of a person Charles is.

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