Is there any hyperbole in the short story "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?

is a
literary device in which the author uses exaggeration to achieve an effect. Authors use it to
heighten emotion, develop contrasts, or add humor. As an example, Shel Silverstein's poetry
contains a lot of wonderful hyperbole. I especially enjoy his poem entitled
"Sick."

In 's short story entitled "," she makes use of
hyperbole to compare the way Laurie was before he started kindergarten to the way he was after
he started. In the opening lines of the story, the narrator states:

"The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy overalls with
bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first morning with the
older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet-voiced
nursery-school tot replaced by a longtrousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the
corner and wave good-bye to me."

Jackson's use of
the word "renounced" in this passage makes use of hyperbole. The Merriam
Webster...