Laurie's Use Of Foreshadowing In Charles

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In the short story “Charles” there is a little boy named Laurie starting kindergarten and in his

class there is a little boy named Charles who is causing trouble who is also Laurie.How does

foreshadowing convince us that Laurie is Charles?Well on the first page Laurie is explaining

how a boy named Charles was being fresh and had to be spanked and Laurie’s mom was

asking who did it and Laurie kept hesitating to answer her question “Laurie thought.”It was

Charles.”. We know Laurie was lying because he was hesitating to answer the question and it

also quoted he thought.So he made Charles up so he wouldn’t get in trouble by his mom and

dad.The author also gives us more clues that Laurie is Charles like how Laurie knew what bad