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Melissa Jackson

10-17-99

Exploratory Thinking

Period 3



"Flowers For Algernon" Report



"Flowers for Algernon" is about a man named Charlie Gordon who is mentally retarded. Charlie signs up for an experiment that is supposed to make him smarter. He wants to be like every one else. To do the experiment he has to keep a journal showing his progress. Charlie starts out spelling almost every word wrong. Charlie's family and friends have all made fun of him; his parents gave him to his uncle when he was ten.



The experiment starts to work and Charlie gets smarter and he starts realizing new things. Before the operation his imagination and his brain weren't working that well. His imagination started to work for the first time when he got this operation. 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.



Charlie soon becomes aware that his smartness may not stay forever, that he might......

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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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