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Charlie Gordon In Daniel Keys Flowers For Algernon

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How much are you willing to take to increase your intelligence? “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keys, was a story about a man with a mental disability. His name was Charlie Gordon, and through a surgery, tripled his IQ. Even though Charlie lost his intelligence, he was improved because of the experiment, and achieved his dream of being brainy. Charlie desired nothing more than to be “normal”, but this experiment made him supernatural, but achieved many great things. When we are first introduced to Charlie, he seems extremely stupid. He spells everything incorrect, and cannot fully understand basically everything. Charlie explains to us “Dr. Nemur said I am trying to cram a lifetime of research into a few weeks”. (703) Algernon
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