Who Is Charlie Gordon Smarter In Flowers For Algernon

In “Flowers for Algernon”, Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old who has below average intelligence trying to become smart through an experiment. Later throughout the story, he becomes smarter, but then, loses the gain of knowledge. “Their going to use me!” He was very happy because they were going to use him. “After the operashun Im gonna try to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard.” With this sentence from page 352, you can infer that he has below average intelligence for a 37-year-old, because of his low writing skills and lack of education. Soon enough, Charlie became smarter. By comparing his old progress reports to the more recent ones, you can see how much he has changed. Example, on page 354 the following states, “He says dont get discoridged because it takes time and it

Soon enough, he realizes he will not stay smart forever. Charlie himself, created the “Algernon-Gordon Effect”, which says increasing your intelligence by using surgical techniques will not be permanent. Since, Charlie increased his intelligence by using surgical techniques made by Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss, his intelligence will not be permanent and will return to his original self before the operation. Page 379 states, “Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.” If you compare his writing to before, his writing skills decreased and he can no longer read a book. Other than his intelligence increasing and decreasing throughout the story, you can see he is caring, because he doesn’t want to cause people anymore pain or make people want to feel sorry about