Why are characteristic functions are not continuous on set C[0,4]?

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I was going through a proof and one of the statements said "observe that the characteristic functions are not continuous on $C[0,4]$" where $$C[0,4]= \{f: [0,4] \rightarrow \mathbb R: f\text{ is continuous}\}$$

Could someone explain why that is?