Plot
Laurie's home and school
What is the setting?
The protagonist in the story
Who is Laurie?
Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character
What is venerable?
The point of view of the story
What is First person?
The first punishment Charles received
What is he was spanked?
Any instance of Charles acting up in class
Charles being chosen as a helper in class
Charles telling a girl to say something inappropriate out loud
What is rising action?
The narrator of the story
Who is Laurie's mom?
In a manner indicating disbelief
What is incredulously?
Man v. Himself - issue between Laurie and "Charles"
What is conflict?
Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
What is insolently?
Laurie's mom finds out there is no Charles in class and we infer that she realizes Charles is Laurie
What is resolution?
The antagonist in the story
Who is Charles?
in a distrustful way that expresses a belief that people are motivated purely by self-interest
What is cynically?
Parents' blindness to their children's flaws
What is theme?
The reason that Laurie's parents miss the first PTA meeting
What is Laurie's little sister was sick?
When Laurie's mother goes to the PTA meeting
What is climax?
Words that describe this character: loud, disrespectful, rude, fresh
Who is Charles?
Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise
What is raucous?
The way Laurie begins acting towards his parents gives clues that Laurie is Charles.
What is foreshadow?
The name that is used at home when someone is causing trouble
What is Charles?
The first paragraph-- introducing Laurie beginning kindergarten and how he's changed
What is the exposition?
Words that describe this character: clueless, ignorant
Who is Laurie's mother?
Formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession); reject and stop using or consuming
What is renounce?
All of the outrageous misbehavior that Laurie attributes to Charles is actually his own transgression, as his parents discover at the end of the story.
What is irony?
The author of the story
Who isShirley Jackson?