The Literary Techniques Of Shirley Jackson

Like a diary entry hidden within the pages of an enticing story, Shirley Jackson poured her feelings into her work, elegantly lacing her experiences within each character and plot. She expressed her true self within all of her writing pieces, not just the two that will be mentioned. Even though she only lived to be 48, Jackson faced many struggles that made themselves prevalent in stories like The Possibility of Evil and The Daemon Lover. In these two short stories, Jackson’s battle with depression and the knowledge that her husband cheated continuously on her were the life problems that were evident most. Shirley Jackson’s emotions, thoughts and difficult life experiences were evidently displayed in her writing pieces through the characters,

Shirley Jackson’s short story, “Charles,” both tricks the audience and foreshadows the ending by the way she uses the literary element of characterization. The main character, Laurie is a sweet and innocent child in kindergarten. In his class, there is a boy whose name is Charles and Laurie always complains about him to his parents. For example, as Laurie explains to his parents how Charles misbehaves during class “he grin[s] enormously”(259). The idea of a smirk on Laurie’s face throughout the conversation of a bad influence shows that he admires what ‘Charles’ has done which foreshadow the ending of the story.

Utopian/Dystopian Cause and Effect Essay Utopian literature is characterized by no fear of outside world, embracing nature, and citizens help each other. The government is seen as an utopian characteristic in the lottery and pedestrian. In both, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, government has caused the main characters to live in a dystopian existence. The Lottery has attempted to create a utopia by starting out with kids the kids playing with rocks and it's a nice summer day but they turn into a dystopian environment by throwing the rocks at the lottery winner.

Terrifying plot twists, horrifying scenery, and psychopathic characters make up a creepy story. Edgar Allen Poe is a horror writer who specializes in gore-based stories while Shirley Jackson is a suspense writer with a love for plot twists. While Jackson is an excellent writer, when it comes to creepy stories Poe is superior.

Laurie first acted impertinently as an effort to gain regard from his parents. Soon after, he described his classmate Charles and his actions to his family. Charles continued to act disreputably as the weeks passed by, and Laurie’s family grew more fascinated with him with every day. A constant problem included how the disobedient Charles acted up, with his teacher’s ventures to discipline him. In the third week of kindergarten, Charles suddenly halted his misbehavior and became the teacher’s diligent helper, which solved this struggle. Afterwards, Laurie’s mother attended a PTA meeting in order to meet Charles’s mother, where she encountered Laurie’s teacher. To her dismay, when she inquired about Charles she was met with blank stares because Charles, in truth, did not

Laurie, a young imaginative kindergartener, and Charlie, the embodiment of mischief, manage to shock and horrify their parents while simultaneously managing to terrify every person in their kindergarten class. Shirley Jackson’s “Charles” takes place in the 1950’s at the home and school of Laurie. Laurie is the brother to an infant child and is a kindergartener who is having difficulty adjusting to his new school. It was common in Laurie’s family for Laurie to relay the events that took place at school, most of which involved Charles, a rambunctious child in Laurie’s class. Laurie often challenged authority and misbehaved both in school, and at his home due to difficulty adjusting to kindergarten, lack of proper punishment, and his natural opposition to authority.

This journey the kids went on was probably new to them in many ways. The cab ride seemed new to these kids, and when they got to the toy store, they were in complete awe. These kids were also soon to judge the people with money that might come into this toy store, calling them rich. Miss Moore’s slow approach to explaining things made the kids slow down as well

Shirley Jackson was born on December 14, 1916 in San Francisco, California. She was the daughter of Leslie Hardie (President of Stecher-Traung Lithograph,Inc.) and Geraldine Bugbee Jackson.

Shirley Jackson’s stories often had a woman as the central character who was in search of a more important life other than the conventional wife and mother. These characters however were often chastised for their refusal to conform to a woman’s traditional way of life. Much like her characters, throughout Shirley Jackson’s life, she also rejected the idea of fitting into society's perception of a woman's role.

Shirley Jackson’s realistic fiction story, “Charles,” takes place in London. Laurie, the five year old starting kindergarten, starts to act different and care less about his actions. When Laurie talks about Charles to his family, his parents start to question if Charles is the reason behind Laurie’s actions. But what his parents do not know, is that Laurie is the one who is not behaving in school. When his mom finds out that there is no Charles in the kindergarten class, she realized that Laurie is the one misbehaving. By using foreshadowing and point of view, the author demonstrates the theme that lying affects others.

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In Shirley Jackson's realistic fiction story, “Charles”, the story takes place in school and home. Laurie’s parents were constantly listening to him about the bad deeds that Charles did during each school day. They were very gullible regarding the stories Laurie would tell them. The parents were listening to everything Laurie said and they were believing it to be real. Using two story details and point of view, Jackson teaches readers to not be gullible.

When Jackson stepped outside with the folder under his left arm, he glanced at his watch and saw it was 2000 hours, which meant the mess hall was closed for the evening. Which meant Harry wasn’t going to like the fact he’d missed evening chow again and hadn’t eaten since breakfast. Moreover, Harry would be on his ass again about his weight, but until it affected his ability to function at a high level in combat, he wasn’t going to worry even with Harry chewing his head off about it. Due to the time crunch, he had other things to worry about since they only had 12 days to get the equipment gathered for the complicated mission. Something in the back of his mind kept telling him something was wrong about this mission and forgo taking his men

By the time Hunter entered preschool Steve and Sadie had moved from Sadie’s parents’ house and into their own apartment. With time a difference in parenting styles (Chapter 6, pg. 211) between his mother and father emerged. Hunter’s father Steve used an authoritative style characterized by setting limits, while remaining flexible encouraging maturity, listening to Hunter’s concerns and often forgave rather than punished when he made mistakes, which happened often. Unlike Hunter’s father his mother Sadie was a proponent of authoritarian parenting. Her style of parenting was characterized hard rules, high expectations, and swift discipline, with no interest in discussion or backtalk from Hunter. This mismatch in parenting styles was a frequent source of confrontation between Sadie and Steve and a source of stress for Hunter.

This short story Charles begins with Laurie's mother recounting her son's first day of kindergarten. Her son takes off his childish overalls and begins wearing grown-up blue jeans with a belt. every time he comes home he tells his parent about this little boy in his class named "Charles" and what he did. Laurie's parents are curious to know who Charles is. Laurie's parents think that Charles would be a bad influence on Laurie but whenever they ask Laurie who Charles is, Laurie just ignores them. In the first two weeks of school, Laurie tells his parents what Charles has done, like how Charles is rude to the teacher, hurts some of the other students, and yells so loudly that it disrupts other classes in the school. He even hits the teacher and