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Flowers For Algernon: Did You Do A Charlie Gordon?

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Did you do a Charlie Gordon? After the surgery, Charlie Gordon started learning and getting smarter each day, In the Book Flowers For Algernon. The Main Character Charlie Gordon was 38 Years Old but, Had AN IQ of 68 which made him. Mentally Handicapped so, there were 2 scientists that wanted to test out an operation that could Change Science. They needed a Human test Subject to try the experiment out on. This is where they made a mistake and made a bad choice by picking charlie Gordon. So some background Information Charlie Gordon was a man but had a mind of a kid he worked at a box factory cleaning the toilets. He lives In a messed up house with a small bed. The First reason Charlie Shouldn't have done Surgery Is because that would have been the first time they did the surgery on a human they only did it on a mouse. They should have waited to see what was gonna happen to the mouse before they did it on a human but, Charlie said “I told them becaus all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb” . So in a way Charlie wanted to do it, but they should have picked something else or tried it with some other animals. Before they tried it with a living, walking human. They also …show more content…

Charlie said “ This is Algernon, he the mouse they did the surgey to”.They still Didn’t tell him what the effects are if he was even gonna become smart. They used him as a lab guinea pig. They Didn’t tell him if the smart was gonna last or go away, they left him clueless and they did more tests on him. Trying to get him where they wanted him and, then when they figured out what was gonna happen to charlie they felt bad for doing the surgery on him. Cause it cost him the most important thing in the world to him, but, he did get a better understanding of the world in a way made friends and found

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