The Happiest Days of Your Life

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The happiest days of your life While growing up, your childhood is supposed to be the happiest days of your life. But Charles’s very ambitious parents are more concerned about how other people see them, than see their son on a school he likes. As a result this ends up with a little kid being scared of going to a school, and feeling like being used of his parents, the people he trust the most in the world. So how du you make your parents proud, when all they think about is status and image and that what they want of out life, is more important than what their child wants. The story has a 3rd person unlimited omniscient narrator. He describes the characters but he knows what the characters are thinking as well. He starts out with describing Charles and how he behaves in the car. This gives us a good view on how he feels. “The boy sat on the back seat of the car, a box of chocolates, unopened, beside him and a comic folded.” (p. 61 L, 1-2). When the author uses this kind of ‘point of view’ there is no objective point of the story and we only get subjective images of what is happening. Though, this helps us understand how everybody in the family feels about the situation, and we hear more than one side of the story. It’s written in past tense, but changes when the headmaster takes Charles out to meet the other boys. I think the author changes the tense to make the story more interesting and alive in the end. Charles could be around 8-12 years old, since he is going to a preparatory school. He is a very anxious, quiet and also very shy and just follows the leads he gets from the adults. For instance when the headmaster’s wife demands him to come with her, he just follows her without saying anything. It doesn’t seem like he wants to go to the school, but he knows his parents are spending a lot of money on the school and do not want to disappoint them, with not

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