After reading the story about Charles, I think the theme is to follow what your heart tells you to. In the story, Laurie did what his heart told him to do. No one told him to kick the teacher nor did anyone tell him to whisper a really bad word to another student. He followed his heart and did what it told him to. When I typed that he followed his heart and did what it told him to do, it is meaning that he does something he enjoys and is willing to do it without being forced to do it. For example, in the story, Charles, Laurie, kicked the teacher because he wants to color with green crayons but the teacher only allowed him to color with red crayons. No one would have told him to do that but himself.
I think that there is another theme. The other theme is that Charles lives within Laurie. This short story belongs in Collection Four, Living in the Heart and Charles live in Laurie. Charles is an imaginary friend that is Laurie. Laurie blames the things he does in school on Charles and when his parents ask him did anything interesting happen at school, he told them what happened in school but he told them that another kid did it. However, I don't think he imagined Charles just to blame things he does on him. I think he imagined him because he's only in kindergarten and when people are young, they have imaginary friends. I once had a huger amount of imaginary friends where I imagined myself as a demi-god, daughter of Poseidon, called Abby and a lot more people such as Nico, Son of Hades, and Scott, son of Poseidon. It was fun having an imaginary friend because when you feel angry, you can bring the world alive and make up a new enemy in which you beat them up. Back to topic, I think that Laurie invents Charles just for pleasure of his own at first and he talks alittle about him at first about what he does in school and he realized that his parents believed him so he decided to really blame things on him.
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