![]() ![]() ![]() He has a job at Donner's Bakery and takes a literacy class with a woman named Miss Alice Kinnian three times a week.Ī man named Dr. He details that he is thirty-two years old and has an IQ of sixty-eight. In the first "progris riport", Charlie's spelling is very poor. The story of "Flowers for Algernon" is told through the eyes of Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded adult man who has been chosen to take part in an experimental procedure designed to incrementally increase his intelligence. Every section is formatted as a progress report on Charlie's part. He buries Algernon and requests that people leave flowers for him when they can. ![]() However, a mouse named Algernon who had the same procedure before Charlie begins to grow sickly and die and Charlie fears that he, too will experience this degradation of his new found intelligence.Įventually, Charlie realizes that his mental handicap is coming back and takes himself to a state home to leave in peace. After having an operation, Charlie does begin to grow more intelligent until he eventually becomes a genius. Through the reports, Charlie takes the reader on a journey in which he undergoes an experimental medical procedure designed to make him grow exponentially more intelligent. ![]()
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