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Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man who has the very low IQ of 68 and was instructed by scientists to do progress reports as they go through experiments with him and a rat called Algernon.

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Charlie had a psychological test that he took in which he had to describe what he saw in some shaped ink spots. Rorschach is the name of the test he took. Charlie thought that he failed the test because while others saw something in the shaoed ink spots, he didn't, and like he is used to fail, he thinks he is going to fail. Just like in Miss Kinnians's class, Miss Kinnian is a teacher who teaches adults that have a lower inteligence.

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1) shud/should
2) rite/write
3) evrey/every
4) happins/happens
5) importint/important
6) faled/failed
7) sed/said
8) skared/scared

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One test was Rorschach test, a test where they show you 10 differently shaped ink spots where you should describe what you saw, this test is made to either identify mental disorders or personality traits. The Thematic Apperception Test is a test where they show you an image and you have to make a story of what is happening in that image, and the test is used as a therapeutic tool to allow clients to express feelings in a non-direct way.

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"Their going to use me!" Is Charlie telling in his "progris riport 4" that he was chosen to be part of the experiment. He is also very excited for it because he said that "I want to be smart" he is finnaly going to be as smart as everyone arround him, after 37 years of him suffering because of his condition he is finnaly going to be able to fit in, he will be normal, and that is what he always wanted.

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Charlie made the operation and he starts getting irritable. He loses to Algernon because his inteligence was trippled and that puts Charlie's hopes up, but he is still mad at him for winning every time. Charlie works in a factory.
That image symbolizes the doctors fixing Charlie's brain.

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Charlie feels good at work and is happy. He is constantly bullied at work by his coworkers; he doesn't notice this and thinks that is normal. The rest of the people make fun of Charlie by refering to any dumb person or action as Charlie Gordon.

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INFORMATION: Explain
a) what happened, Dr straus gave him a tv so that he turned it on at night while he was sleeping, and he went to a party with his friends from work
b) how Charlie feels, happy because he went for drinks with his friends and because he can learn sleeping
c) what doctors said, That he learns through his subconscious because of the tv
d) how the tv functions, it teaches Charlie's subconscious mind
e) explain the 2 minds, subconscious is when you act without you being aware, and conscious is when you do things intentionally
f) how he can learn, his subconscious learns while he sleeps
g) what happened with his friends at the end of the day. they left him

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Charlie finally beat Algernon. He was very happy about it and raced him 8 more times and wanted to continue, but then couldn´t. But even though he knew he was geting smarter he didn't feel smarter. He stopped being mad at him and started to pet him and wanted to feed him, but they didn't let him. At the end he wanted to be Algernon's friend.

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Miss Kinnian went to visit Charlie at the laboratory after his work, Charlie tells her a joke and she laughs, but after that she motivates him. Then Charlie and Miss Kinnian started to read a book about a person alone in a deserted island that is very smart, and Charlie says that he feels sorry for him because he has no friends in that island. And an evidence of his evolution is that he could relate footprints to records of people, which takes a certain high level of inteligence. He also starts spelling better in tells his technique to start spelling better and that Miss Kinnian told him that there is no reason in spelling. In the next day, Miss Kinnian tells Charlie about how he is learning fast, then she read all of his Progress Reports and noticed about how his "friends" treat him bad without him noticing and starts crying after he tells her about how he had smart "friends".

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Along with his progress, Charlie's vocabulary and spelling drastically improve. In April 16 he discovers the comma, but doesn't use it well by putting them between every 2 or 3 words when not needed. In April 17 he realizes his mistakes and reveals that he uses a dictionary to know how to spell certain words he does not know how to spell. In the same report he mentions that Miss Kinnian showed him what punctuation is and starts to use it in a very chaotic way by putting random punctuation marks across the text and at the end saying that punctuation is fun. And in April 18, Charlie finnaly nails the concept of punctuation and starts using it in the correct way. After listening to Miss Kinnian say that he is evolving fast, which made him feel good, he went to play with Algernon and says that he and Algernon don't race anymore, showing Charlie's great progress.

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Charlie feels horible. He went to a party with Joe Carp and Frank Reilly, Charlie remembered the last time he went to a party with them and how he felt bad for drinking so he asked for nothing to drink, but one of his friends tricked him into thinking that what he was drinking was just coke when it had alchohol in it. They had fun for a while, and then he went to dance with a girl named Ellen who he thought that was going to teach him how to dance, but was just making him trip. Everyone was making fun of him and laughing at him but now he knew it. Charlie realized that everyone just liked him arround to make fun of him. He was ashamed and felt sad, his "friends" liked him to make fun of him. Now he knew what "pulling a Charlie Gordon" means. He is ashamed.

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Charlie didn't go to the factory today because he was still feeling bad from the party he went the day before and sisn't want to see those people again. Charlie's progress is very clear by him noticing and understanding what people did to him, he now knows punctuation and spells well, even words he thought were difficult he now remembers, and now he read well and understand what he reads, and even visualizing what he read. Another external thing that helps understand and notice how much he progresses is when Miss Kinnian tells Charlie he should learn foreign languages, when he didn't even know his own well, now his teacher tells him he is prepared to learn new ones. That's a lot of progress. Charlie had 68 IQ points before the operation, and he is going to reach 200 soon, so since his inteligence is going to triple just like Algernon's and still hasn't reached 200 (that is his trippled IQ) then he must be arround 130 (which is his doubled IQ). IQ according to Dr. Nemur is what measured how inteligent you were, according to Dr. Strauss is what determined how inteligent you could get, and according to Burt, who gives Charlie his inteligence test, says it measures different things including things you already and it isn't good at all.

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Charlie had the same test he had than in March 6, he had a lot of trust issues with the person who made the test on him, which was the same who did it last time, because of how his friends at work fooled him he is now very careful. The cards were the same, but now he could see things in the shapes, which he didn't see last time.

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Charlie got a bonus of $25 because he found a new way to line up the machines in the factory he worked, what Mr. Donnegan said that will save him $10,000 in a year. To celebrate it he tried to call his friends from work to lunch, but no one wanted because they seemed scared of him, so he called Miss Kinnian to lunch and she agreed with the permition of the doctors. The doctors were arguing for the credits of the operation, who is needs it more, and when to release the results of the operation.

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Charlie starts to notice how Miss Kinnian was beautifull and young, when he before thought of her as an old and unreachable genious. That is due to Charlie starting to understand his feelings and maturing. Then he takes Miss Kinnian to dinner and they have a long talk about Charlie's inteligence and how he is evolving faster and faster and Miss Kinnian starts to fear that growth and the possibility of Charlie not to care for her anymore. Charlie also fears leaving Miss Kinnian and realizes he is in love with her.

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Charlie quit his job. Mr. Donnegan said that it would be better for everyone if Charlie quit and then showed him a list of how many people made the petition for him to quit, everyone made the petition for him to quit except one person. Charlie went to talk to that one person to talk to her, she told him that he was a good person before he was inteligent. Charlie asked her what was wrong with him finnaly being intelligent and she looked down and said: "It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge." which meant that it's not right to change intelligence for humanity. He felt alone because the people who he thought were once his friends now don't want him and that no one wanted him arround anymore.

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Charlie starts writing progress reports again after a long time and started to type hsi progress reports instead of writing them because writing was very slow and he had a bad handwriting, so typing would save him time and would help make his work more understandable. Charlie and Algernon were presented to the American Psychological Association. Charlie's relation with the 2 doctors is very bad. Dr. Nemur didn't like the new Charlie because Charlie was giving him an inferiority complex just because Charlie knows things Dr. Nemur doesn't. And Charlie thinks Dr. Strauss is a genious but doubts himself a lot. Charlie at this point just thinks he is superior to anyone and just thinks about knowledge and being better than others.

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Charlie now is obsessed with inteligence and knowledge and now he only talks about that, but due to that he is slowly losing his humanity and just stops talking to people because since complicated subjects is all he talks about, no one understands him and no one talks to him.

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Charlie was at dinner and a boy who had a lower inteligence, just like him in the past, broke some dishes and started cleaning them. Everyone made fun of him and the boy wouldn't even notice and laugh, just like Charlie right after the operation. Charlie saw himself in that boy and remembered who he was and how people treated him before his high intelligence and lost his temper, shouting to everyone to leave the boy alone and that it's not his fault he can't understand and that he is still a human being. After this, Charlie realized that he could help people with his intelligence and the operation that he received by helping Dr. Strauss with his studies. Because that is his gift, his power, and with great power comes great responsibility.

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Algernon is getting irritable, refusing to run the maze, and refusing to eat. Algernon's brain is deteriorating and Charlie thinks that it may happen to him too.

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Charlie is trying to discover why Algernon's regression happened and he is also trying to discover if it is going to happen to him too, and if it is, when is it going to happen. It is called "The Algernon-Gordon Effect".

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Algernon is regressing mentally, his motor activity is impaired, and he is losing coordination, which means his brain is deteriorating. Algernon's brain started to lose weight, he had cerebral convultions, and brain fissures. In June 8, Algernon dies and Charlie feels very sad about it. Charlie puts Algernon's body in a cheese box and burries him in the backyard.

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Charlie is starting to pass through the same symptoms as Algernon, he is slowly losing his memory, forgeting things he learned when he was smart, slowly losing his coordibation, and stopped writing in the typewriter. He is also trying to fight his intelligence loss, but can't. He is already coming back from where he came from.

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1. Charlie starts losing his recent memory and remembering his past.
2. He can't understand books he used to read
3. He slowly stops using punctuation.
4. He stops searching the hard words on the dictionary
5. He decreases his vocabulary.

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INFORMATION:  CHARLIE IS EXPERIENCING ONE SERIOUS PROBLEM,  WHICH ONE IS IT? He is ashamed of once being smart and now returning to having lower intelligence, and he is also scared that people will make fun of him for being dumb.
WHO IS HELPING HIM WITH THAT PROBLEM? Miss Kinnian tried to help him but he said no because he didn't want her to see him dumb again.
HOW DO YOU THINK HE COULD SOLVE IT? I think he can solve it by accepting the fact that it's okay not to be as smart as he once was and that people will like him even if he isn't smart.

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Charlie went back to his old work as a janitor in the same place he worked before. Charlie was cleaning the toilets when someone tried to make fun of Charlie, but Joe Carp menaced the person annoying Charlie, and then Frank Reilly came and told Charlie that if anyone tries to take advantage of him, he should just call Joe or him to set them straight. Charlie finnaky had friends again and his old friends also forgave him for how Charlie used to act.

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Charlie is ashamed, he knows that he was once smart and that everyone knows that, and that he is now dumb, and doens't want anyone to know that he is not smart anymore, he doens't want anyone to be sorry for him. That is why he is going to move out of New York, so that no one knows that he was once smart.