What are some of the characterstics of Laurie and Charles, and how does Laurie let her parents know what kind of person Charles is?

Let me
clear up several misconceptions that you apparently have with 's short story,
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First, Laurie is not a girl; he is a little boy, and the fact
that he is hung with a name usually reserved for girls could well be a part of his behavioral
problem. Secondly (and I hope I don't ruin the ending, since it appears you haven't read it
yet), Laurie and Charles turn out to be one and the same person.

Laurie is
just beginning to attend first grade. His mother, who describes him as a "sweet-voiced
tot" at the beginning of the story, watches him transform into an insolently
"raucous... swaggering character." He picks up lots of bad...