Algernon got worse and he refused to do the mazes and to work. Charlie wondered whether this was because of the experiment. While studying Algernon, he noticed that he was becoming jumpier and that he would attack Charlie sometimes. They went to the airport and flew home, leaving the scientists baffled as to where Algernon was.Ĭharlie worked hard trying to discover how long his smartness would last. Charlie was the first to find Algernon, and he put Algernon in his pocket and left the building. They were in a huge building and most of the doors in the room they were in were open. The scientists freaked out and started looking for Algernon. In his frustration he accidentally on purpose let Algernon go. When Charlie and Algernon have to go to Chicago for an interview, Charlie gets so frustrated at how all the scientists are talking as if before the operation Charlie wasn’t a real person. Together they are the smartest of their species. Charlie starts to become attached to the little white mouse. He studies a little mouse named Algernon who they did the experiment on first. He starts to research the experiment himself. Charlie soon becomes aware that his smartness may not stay forever, that he might lose his genius. Now that he was smart, he could quit his old job of working as a janitor at a bakery and start working for the hospital full time. His imagination started to work for the first time when he got this operation. Before the operation, his imagination and his brain weren’t working that well.

The experiment starts to work and Charlie gets smarter and he starts realizing new things. Charlie starts out spelling almost every word wrong.Ĭharlie’s family and friends have all made fun of him his parents gave him to his uncle when he was ten. To do the experiment he has to keep a journal showing his progress. Charlie signs up for an experiment that is supposed to make him smarter. “Flowers for Algernon” is about a man named Charlie Gordon who is mentally retarded.

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