In 's
short story "," Laurie is a kindergartner who comes home starting on the first day of
school with outrageous stories about a little boy in class. The little boy's name is Charles,
and he is quite a character. He says naughty things which Laurie takes great pleasure in
repeating; he does rebellious things which Laurie enjoys shocking his parents with.
Somehow, of course, Laurie is free to all kinds of equally naughty things when he talks
to his parents about Charles's exploits at school. For example:
What? his father said, looking up. Look down, Laurie said. Look at my thumb.
Gee,youre dumb. He began to laugh insanely.
In another
setting this disrespectful behavior would have gotten him in big trouble; however, Laurie says
this to his father in the middle of a Charles story, and all his...
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