The answer is A: to inform readers about the grandfather's role in creating beet sugar. The speakers say they don't know what grandfather's invention did, but they inform about the result of him managing to turn the beet sugar lighter somehow, which he was able to sell to many buyers, from different places. <em>His creation of beet sugar</em> and and its selling brought him money that made possible for him to buy his freedom.
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I don't quite understand what this is about, but if it's like a like a letter to a friend about you being in the Olympics in third grade or for a third grader reading about the Olympics.
Explanation:
I guess if it's for a third grader, I'm reading about the Olympics, I don't know.
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The fact that Laurie's mother doesn't realize that Laurie is Charles develops the story's theme in the sense that:
A. The mother's fascination with Charles's behavior and excuses for Laurie's home behavior develop the theme that parents are often blind to their own children's faults.
Explanation:
This question is about the short story "Charles" by author Shirley Jackson. It is told from the perspective of Laurie's mother. Each day, coming back home from kindergarten, her son Laurie tells a different story about a boy named Charles who misbehaves at school. Laurie himself is misbehaving at home - being impolite, ignoring his parents, mocking them... Yet, <u>his mother and father never make the connection that Laurie is lying about the existence of this other kid. They become so fascinated about Charles, so eager to meet the mother of such a troublemaker, they don't realize their own son is Charles. They even take advantage of Charles's "existence" to justify Laurie's bad behavior, claiming Charles is influencing him. Blind to their own son's faults, it is only at the end of the story that the mother is told by Laurie's teacher that there is no Charles in their classroom.</u>
