Jackson King
P. 4
11-18-15
English 9 Honors
Flowers for Algernon
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Charlie memories of the past increase as his intelligence grow. Charlie can finally leave the hospital and go back to work at the bakery. He continues tests with Algernon and Bert.
Charlie finally beats Algernon in the maze test but he still cannot understand the complicated interactions with his coworkers. He is beginning to become more aware of his own feelings and question authority. He is also beginning to remember more from his childhood.
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Charlie gets a promotion at work and is now a dough mixer, getting a 4-dollar raise. Although he is not allowed to tell people about his surgery his changes are becoming noticeable to those who have known him
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After odd exchanges, Charlie gets scared and act weird. The women call others to help her causing Charlie to run away.
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Charlie goes to Chicago to International Psychological Association convention. Charlie tries to add on to a conversation but he realizes that Strauss and Nemur are not as smart as he thought. Charlie has learned to speak more languages in the last two weeks than the scientist can speak. This angers Charlie and Burt has to calm him down. During the presentation Charlie realizes that Nemur has not given the experiment enough time to make sure the effects are permanent. He can see the flaws in the experiment that the scientist cannot. The scientist even withheld information from Charlie about Algernon behavior.
Charlie lets Algernon out of his cage. While everybody struggled to catch him Charlie runs in to the women’s bathroom before everyone else. Charlie is able to catch the mouse and hides Algernon in his pocket. The two sneak away, take a flight back to New York where they’re going to stay in a hotel for a few days and then get an apartment. Charlie now knows for sure he will lose his intelligence.
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Earlier he noticed that the fire escape connects their apartments. They instantly become friends and she follows him into his apartment.
The next day he finds his fathers barbershop, but Matt does not recognize him. He thinks Charlie is an average Joe. Charlie gets a haircut, shave, and shampoo. He remembers the night that his father took him to live with Uncle Herman after Rose snapped; threatening to kill Charlie with a carving knife if he did not leave. Charlie starts having a panic attack but tries to calm down so Matt does not see it. Charlie cannot tell his dad that he is his son, so disheartened he leaves.
Algernon does well in the new mazes with out any motivation except getting to the goal itself. Fay buys a female mouse named Minnie for Algernon to have as a friend. They have a few drinks and Charlie passes out. Fay tells him that he acted like a little kid when he was drunk. Charlie realizes that the old mentally impaired Charlie has not
On that day he picked up Algernon like normal but got bit. Charlie watched afterward for some time and saw that he was disturbed and vicious. Burt tells me that Algernon is changing. He is less cooperative, he refuses to run the maze any more, and he hasn't been eating. Burt and others have to feed Algernon because he refuses to do the shifting lock. This a indication that the procedure isn't permanent and Charlie may start to lose intelligence. On May 25 Dr.Nemur and I told Charlie not to come to the lab anymore. Then on May 29 we gave him permission to start a lab and he worked all day and all night on the reason he is losing intelligence. On june 5th he is forgetting stuff which leads up to him becoming absent minded on June 10th. The other indications the procedure wasn’t permanent was once they dissected Algernon who died on June 8th Charlie predictions were correct. Charlie also can’t read or remember books he already read. Soon Charlie can’t remember where he put stuff, forgets punctuation, and spelling reverts back to before. These indications are clear that the procedure wasn’t
Growing up, Charlie faced two difficult loses that changed his life by getting him admitted in the hospital. As a young boy, he lost his aunt in a car accident, and in middle school, he lost his best friend who shot himself. That Fall, Charlie walks through the doors his first day of highschool, and he sees how all the people he used to talk to and hang out with treat him like he’s not there. While in English class, Mr. Anderson, Charlie’s English teacher, notices that Charlie knew the correct answer, but he did not want to speak up and let his voice be heard. As his first day went on, Charlie met two people that would change named Sam and Patrick who took Charlie in and helped him find himself. When his friends were leaving for college, they took one last ride together in the tunnel and played their favorite song. The movie ends with Charlie reading aloud his final letter to his friend, “This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story, you are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder, when you were listening to that song” (Chbosky). Ever since the first day, Charlie realized that his old friends and classmates conformed into the average high schooler and paid no attention to him. Sam and Patrick along with Mr. Anderson, changed his views on life and helped him come out of his shell. Charlie found a
Charlie’s story began with the surgery, the biggest decision he made in his life. Although he was a guinea pig in the procedure, he wasn’t worried at all about the surgery, but rather on becoming smart as fast as he could. Supposedly these doctors were doing Charlie the greatest favor he would ever receive, and he was so eager to learn as much as he could. Soon however, Charlie would encounter challenges he never faced with the intelligence of a 6 year old. Before his surgery, Charlie had great friends in Miss Kinnian and the bakery workers. After the surgery the relationships between Charlie and everyone he knew would take a drastic turn.
At this stage of the story we are compelled to feel a little bit sorry for Charlie who has been separated from his father.
his heart his Aunt Helen. Charlie loses his Aunt Helen on his seventh birthday, but what he does
As a result of the operations, Charlie gains the experience of what it is like to be intelligent. Therefore, he sees the world as it is. “Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. This hurts most of all” (76.) He can now truly understand how the outside world functions and how he is truly treated.
Charlie?s experiment was temporary, and overtime his IQ regressed. Algernon, a mouse that went through the same surgery as Charlie, died. If Charlie?s hypothesis proves correct, then he will die as well. Charlie?s life was better before the experiment because he was not exposed to the risks and consequences of the surgery. Without the experiment, Charlie would still be living his ignorant but happy life.
“I recall your once saying to me that an experimental failure or the disproving of a theory was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be” (Keyes 301). The reader now understands the experiment was not a success. Charlie also validates Algernon’s expected death when he says “Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures” (302). This confirms Algernon’s expected death by the “Algernon-Gordon
Charlie grew suspicious and cold when learning how his friends harmed him, this resulted in Charlie making his “friends” feel inferior and lesser then him as they did to him before his intelligence germinated. His friends experienced a taste of their own medicine, due to his new attitude he possessed a gargantuan amount of greed forced him neglect the emotions of others, his co-workers loathed what Charlie was becoming and wanted to put an end to his evil and selfish behavior, so as a result Charlie Gordon was discharged from his duties at Donner’s Bakery. The monster deep within Charlie did not just stop at destroying the relationship between Charlie and his co-workers at the bakery; instead it also damaged the friendship between him, Dr. Strauss, and professor Nemur severely. The new selfish Charlie has also established a burning hatred for Dr. Strauss and professor Nemur, because he strongly believed that they did not treat him as a human but as a lab rat. Sympathy was one quality the new Charlie lacked, as a result his deep angry and selfish persona led him to sabotage the convention in Chicago by leaving the scene and stealing Algernon. Charlie and Algernon were key for the experiment and Charlie decides to leave with no regard to what could happen to Dr. Strauss’s experiment, instead he did what would benefit him the most and what would be easier on him, “I’ve walked out on the whole thing.” (Charlie, 154) This monster within Charlie was leading him to a path where he would have no friendships and a place where he would grow angrier with those around him due to his selfishness; however as the regression approaches his self-centered qualities begin to fade until they evaporated. Charlie’s new friendly personality resulted
The night Laura Wishart was found dead, Charlie changed as a person: he started to see everything in a different light, even his home life. He comes to terms with his mother; he realises that her personal issues are being taken out on him and dominating their family life. Ruth Buc...
The reality was that Charlie’s mental conflicts were true. Joe and Frank, fellow workers of his, were not his actual friends. He was fooled with, but did not realize that everybody was laughing at him. At work, a petition was filed to fire Charlie. All but one person signed the petition. After the surgery, he began to see what his past life included. This came across him while he was at a restaurant. An employee, who was most likely mentally challenged, dropped a tray of glass. He was also fooled with as he was cleaning it up. Charlie’s past life
Firstly, Charlie's realizes that his co-workers aren't his true friends after all. When Joe Carp and Frank Reilly take him to a house party, they made him get drunk and started laughing at the way he was doing the dancing steps. Joe Carp says, "I ain't laughed so much since we sent him around the corner to see if it was raining that night we ditched him at Halloran's" (41), Charlie recalls his past memory of him being it and not finding his friends who also ditched him and immediately realizes that Joe Carp was relating to the same situation. Charlie felt ashamed and back-stabbed when he realized that he had no friends and that his co-workers use to have him around for their pure entertainment. It's after the operation, that he finds out he has no real friends, and in result feels lonely. Next, Charlie unwillingly had to leave his job from the bakery where he worked for more than fifteen years. Mr. Donner treated him as his son and took care of him, but even he had noticed an unusual behavior in Charlie, lately. Mr. Donner hesitatingly said, "But something happened to you, and I don't understand what it means... Charlie, I got to let you go" (104), Charlie couldn't believe it and kept denying the fact that he had been fired. The bakery and all the workers inside it were his family, and the increase of intelligence had ...
...of all responsibility (for, of course, there is no way that a normal person could ever kill.) In keeping with this principle the film attempts to absolve Young Charlie from all responsibility in her Uncle's death, for it is seen as an accident that occurred when Young Charlie was fighting her Uncle in self-defence. In the final stages of the film we are brought back to the small town introduced to us in the beginning, this time, however, it is in morning for a beloved son. Charlie's death has brought Graham back to Young Charlie. We can see the good side has won the battle for her. As in early situational Charlie has learned her moral lesson and the episode may end.
This is my journal entry for pages one through five. I feel sorry for Charlie Gordon because he doesn't understand what's going around him, and what people mean. Such as the incident with Burt and the Rorschach test. But you can tell he’s trying really hard to pass the test to get the research done on him. You can really tell he wants became for intelligent, it's admirable of him.
Because of the parties he attends with his new friends he has tried using some drugs. These new friends help Charlie see things with a positive perspective, and to be confident in himself. When his friends move away, Charlie experience isolation and has a mental crisis that leads him to be internalized in a clinic.