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¿What information can you give about the protagonist?
-Charlie Gordon.
-37 years old.
-She wants to be smart.
-Will write everything that happens to her.

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I think Charlie has trouble learning, and maybe that’s why  Charlie has many grammatical mistakes, and wants to improve his intelligence.

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Shud - Should
Rite - Write
Evry- Every
Importint - Important
Nuthing - Nothing
Dont - Don’t

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Charlie did the Rorschach Test, which is a method of physiological testing, he was asked what he saw in some inkblots, but he couldn’t see anything, and thought he had failed the test. He thought the person who applied the test was as patient as Miss Kinnian, her teacher in the class for slow adults.

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Charlie got a second test, “THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST”, which consists on picture interpretation, the lady told him to make up a story about the people in the pictures, but he couldn’t, then the lady told him that this tests were for getting personality.

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Some men took Charlie to a different place where he was doing a race with a white mouse, “Algernon”, Algernon (the mouse) was in a box, and Charlie had a paper and a pencil, they were doing a race. They did the test about ten times with different mazes and Algernon won every time.

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“They’re going to use me!”
Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss, had an arrangement about using Charlie for the experiment, they would give Charlie  second chance thanks to Miss Kinnian. If he volunteered in the experiment there was a possibility for him to get smart. He was scared because it was an operation, but he was also hopeful to finally get smart.
Charlie had MOTIVATION, which was very important to continue with the experiment.

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Charlie was scared, there was many people in the hospital. He asked many questions, and was very hopeful. “If it works permanently, they will make everybody smart all over the world”.

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He got the operation, it didn’t hurt at all, Dr Nemur taught Charlie how to spell “Progress Report” correctly, but his spelling was still incorrrect, he tried to think, but he couldn’t, so I think the operation, until now, it hasn’t worked.

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Nothing was happening, his hopes went down, he thought everything he was doing like tests, games pictures... were “stupid”.
He went back to work at the factory, but he couldn’t tell anyone about his operation.

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When he got back to the factory, he thought he was with his friends, but they were actually making fun of him, Charlie couldn’t understand that.
They used his name as an insult frequently and they laughed, but Charlie laughed with them without understanding what was happening.

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He didn’t wanted to race with Algernon anymore.
Dr Strauss gave Charlie a gift, which he didn’t like so much. He thought it was a mini television but it wasn’t ,  Dr Strauss told him that he would need to turn it on when he had to sleep.
Charlie told Dr Strauss that there was no possible way to sleep with that thing on and he was really annoyed by all the  noise it was making.

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Charlie got another test, and he finally won to Algernon, he was proud of himself, and really happy. He thought it was because he was more intelligent then Algernon now, and even wanted to test again, but Burt, who was the one who tested him, told him no.

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Charlie continued going to work at the factory, it was a hard work for him, but that made him feel productive.
One night after work, Charlie went to the laboratory, where he found Miss Kinnian sitting there, she seemed worry but also happy to see Charlie at the time.
They read a book called  “Robinson Cursoe”.
Finally Miss Kinnian taught him how to spell correctly some words, so now his spelling was improving.

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The days after that he continued seeing Miss Kinnian, and Miss Kinnian continued teaching him about spelling, he was taught about dots and commas, how to use them... but at first he didn’t used the commas correctly, he literally used them after every word until Miss Kinnian told him that’s not how to do it.
He also got a new dictionary, and Miss Kinnian told him he should read it to have a better spelling.

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Charlie got really sick, and every part of his body felt sore, but he was invited to a “party”, with his work friends.
Charlie was doubting if he should go to the party or not, but he ended up going.
He started drinking, and continued drinking...
He started to feel nauseous, and almost threw up when he was dancing with a girl.
Everyone started laughing at him, that’s the moment he realized that his “friends” just invited him to make fun of him.

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He didn’t wanted to go to the factory now, after the “party” he went to he didn’t even wanted to see their faces, because he had realized that they were never his friends.
His spelling progressed, he could use punctuation, he spelled the words correctly, he also realized he had photographic memory, he could remember pages of the books he read.
He had an IQ of 68.

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Compare and Contrast.
It had been 47 days since he first did the Rorschach test, now he would make it again after a few weeks after the operation, the first time he did it, he didn’t even understood the instructions, and couldn’t do the test.
Now he understood what he needed to do, he also found the “hidden pictures” in the inkblot, and also could use his imagination.

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Charlie figured out a new way to line up the machines in the factory, it was very good so Donnegan gave him a $25 bonus, he wanted to invite people to dinner but everyone was afraid of him.
Dr Strauss and Dr Nemur started arguing about who had the rights of the experiment.

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Charlie started noticing how beautiful Miss Kinnian was, he liked his brown eyes and brown hair.
They had dinner together and after that they took a long walk.
They sat at a bench together, Charlie was thinking many things, but one of them was that the thought of leaving Miss Kinnian made him sad. Then he realized he was in love with her.

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Charlie quit his job with Donnegan’s Plastic Box Company. There was a petition of eight hundred and forty names demanding for him to be fired. Fanny Girden was the only one that signed against it.
He could just think about how the intelligence had driven a wedge between him and the people he once had loved.
They had driven him out of the factory, and he had never felt more alone.

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Dr Strauss was really a dry at Charlie because stopped writing his progress reports for two weeks, he told him that he was busy in the process of writing and thinking. The lab was now paying him a regular salary. Charlie told him that writing was a slow process, so Dr Strauss suggested he learnt how to type, it would be much easier.
During the past to weeks Algernon and Charlie were presented to the Phycological Association.

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Charlie saw Miss Kinnian for the first time in over a week. He felt disturbed by that.
He tried to avoid every discussions of intellectual concept, but she kept asking about Dobermann’s Fifth Concerto.
He just felt unable to communicate with her, but then he realized lately he didn’t communicate much with people anymore.

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There was an incident of broken dishes at the corner diner where Charlie took his evening meals.
It was a boy who had caused a disaster in the kitchen, all the costumers were being rude, and making fun of him calling him dumb... Everything there made him feel sick inside, they were laughing at the guy for being  mentally retarded. He stood up and raised his voice telling everyone to stop.
He had realized that the old Charlie Gordon was exactly as vulnerable as the guy at the diner.
He was impatient to begin with new techniques, new achievements...

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Algernon bit Charlie, he was just visiting him as he did occasionally and when he took him out of his cage he bit him.
Burt (who is in charge of experimental animals) told him that Algernon was changing.
Dr Strauss and Dr Nemur asked Charlie to stay away from the lab, he couldn’t accept that, he wanted to go ahead with his plans and carry the research forward.

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Now he had a lab on his own, and permission to do his research. He kept working day and night. He found the calculus of intelligence fascinating.
Dr Strauss thought Charlie was working too hard, and Dr Nemur said he was trying to do a lifetime of research in just a couple of weeks. He wanted to know if the same regression in Algernon would happen to him, and when.
Charlie then wrote a letter to Dt Strauss about his report “ The Algernon- Gordon Effect: Study of Structure and Function of increased Intelligence”.

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He studied Algernon, he had regressed mentally, motor activity was impaired, and loss of coordination. There were strong indications of  progressive amnesia.
As long as Charlie was able to write and record his thoughts, it was one of his few pleasures, however his mental deteriorations would be rapid.
His deterioration was progressing, he had become absent-minded, and Algernon had died two days ago, his brain weight had decreased, and broadening of brain fissures.
He put Algernon’s body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. He cried.

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Charlie wanted to be by himself now. He felt irritable, and felt the darkness closing in. He started forgetting about books he had read, he was desperate to at least retain some of the things he’d learnt. He started forgetting where he lived. He’s mind was now deteriorating rapidly, and started with some amnesia.
He gave up using the typewriter, he had a terrible coordination now, and he stopped understanding every language he had learnt.

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He started loosing motion of time, he also remembered his parents just as people who were constantly fighting.
He put flowers in Algernon’s grave every week.
Charlie was sick now,he had awful headaches, so Miss Flynn called a strange doctors who made fun of him.
He had no money now, so he needed to get a job, he didn’t want to go to the factory because people new him when he was intelligent and he didn’t want them to make fun of him.

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He couldn’t even read his own progress reports.
Miss Kinnian went to visit him, but Charlie told her to go away, and that he didn’t loved her anymore, and he didn’t want to be smart, but those were all lies.
He asked for his old job as janitor at Mr Donnegan’s, and he got it, he started to say to himself that if they laughed it didn’t meant anything because they were his “friends”, but then his old friends (Joe Carp and Frank Reilly) who used to make fun of him, were now defending him.

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When Charlie went back for the job, mr Donnegan was nice to him, he got the job back.
Everybody looked at him when he came back.
There was someone making fun of him, but Joe and Frank defended him, now he really had friends, they also told him that they would be there for him if he needed something.

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He forgot he wasn’t on Miss Kinnian’s class and went there.
He decided he was going away from New York, he doesn’t want anyone to feel sorry for him, he was a genius, but now he couldn’t read or write. He was grateful for everything he had learnt.
He would try and practice reading and writing, he wanted to keep trying.
He says goodbye to Miss Kinnian, Dr Strauss and everybody in his last progress reports. Finally he asked them to put flowers in Algernon’s grave.