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The Happiest Days Of Your Life Analysis

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The Happiest Days of Your Life The story starts out with a boy called Charles sitting in a car with his parents. They are on their way to a preparatory school to see if it would be a prober place for Charles to continue his education. When they arrive, they are told by a woman to wait for the headmaster. After a while the headmaster’s wife comes. She greets them and apologizes for the absence of her husband, the headmaster. They adults gets a drink, while they all talk about Charles and his life. After a while the headmaster enters the room and say hallo. While the headmaster and the parents talk, his wife takes Charles to show him some of the other students at the school. They go to a room where some boys are playing and are being noisy but the second they enter, the boys become quiet. When the woman leaves the room the boys gather around in a circle around Charles. Soon they ask him questions about himself and he answers. As they keep asking questions Charles keeps hearing less and less of what they say and suddenly he hears someone saying that they are going to mash him next term. The headmaster’s wife …show more content…

This could be done for a couple of reasons. First of all because of the dramatic effect it can have and secondly it could be used as a way of saying “This is it!”, this is where it all begins. As an extension of the latter it could “this is the end”. They story is called “The Happiest Days of Your Life” and usually you would say that about the time at the boarding school, but in this case it could mean that those days are over. The happiest days were until the time at the boarding school and now it is over. The time until the headmaster’s wife takes Charles away is in the past tense and that is what was and is no more. The boarding school is now and is therefore in

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