Response to "The Charmer"

How does what I know about the world shape the way we view ourselves?

The Charmer begins introducing us to two young siblings Winnifred and Zachary, and at this time our little main character knew so little about life that she could not understand how manipulative her brother was. Later on everyone starts to slowly notice who Zack really was and Winnifred feels like she has been her brother's slave without knowing it, which shows us how her knowledge changed her point of view about someone she used to worship. After a tragedy that happens in the family it becomes evident that the boy is too spoiled and selfish and he has to leave the house and follow his own way. Years after all of that our leading character has already had children of her own and one of them starts to show some resemblance to how Zack used to behave to get whatever he wanted, but now, knowing exactly how terrible can the consequences be for not imposing some limits to your kids Winnifred can take a stand and handle the sitution better than her mother did back then. Her mother could not deal with what she had lost and started getting senile earlier than it would be consider normal and kept saying "Too late, too late" in the end when our main character is about to make a mistake she changes her mind because now she knows better after all she witnessed " I looked at her, listened to her, and longed to hold her in my arms and whisper consolation. But somewhere in the back of my head, I could hear a voice shouting, 'Too late, too late!' ".