The happiest days of your life

The boy Charles and his parents are on their way to visit the best boarding school for boys in Sussex, according to Charles parents, but we get the impression that Charles isn't as happy as his parents for the visit, and that his opinion about the boarding school doesn't matter to them.? ”The boy sat on the back seat of the car, a box of chocolates, unopened, beside him, and a comic, folded. The trim Sussex landscape flowed past the windows: cows, white-fenced fields, highly-priced period houses.” ?(p. 1). It seems like Charles is bored in the back of the car and just looking out of the window at the landscape, while his parents are having a conversation for themself in the front seats about how great they hope the school is. ?“His mother half-turned to speak to him. 'Nearly there, darling.'” ?(p. 1) The mother only speaks to Charles in this example on the whole ride to the boarding school and then only the mother and father speak to each other for the rest of the ride. When they arrive at the boarding school, we get the impression that the school is high priced school and exclusive. ?“The car turned right, between white gates and high, dark, tight clipped hedges.” ?(p. 2) The school’s appearance is exclusive from the first meters they drive into the driveway, cause the white gates may give the school a royal look from the front, but also that the building of the school is very old. ?“The building was red brick, early nineteenth century, spreading out lang arms in which windows glittered blackly.” (p. 3) ?Then it gives the school a very rich and exclusive look, with the details, for example, the white gates, which I mentioned before. It seems like the parents are a little embarrassed about their son Charles when they see how Charles is looking compared to the boys at the school. ?“The mother said: He looks so hideously pale, compared to those boys we saw outside.” (p. 4) ?The parents are embarrassed because they want to be like the people at the school, but they know that their son is not like the other boys, because Charles doesn’t give the expression that he wants to go to this boarding school. E. M. Forster writes about the history of today's middle class and how many men look back at the school days. ?“Many men look back on their school days as the happiest of their lives. They remember with regret that golden time when life, though hard, was not yet complex, when they all worked together and played together and thought together, so far as they thought at all.” ?I think Charles shouldn't go to this boarding school because it seems not to be the right place for him and he maybe doesn’t fit in at this kind of school. He shouldn’t just let his parents make the decision for him, but instead tell his parents how he really feels about going to this school in the future. So I think Forster’s advice would help Charles to find the right school for him because it's’ the happiest days of his life. 530 words