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"I did a dumb thing today I forgot I wasnt in Miss Kinnians class at the adult center any more like I use to be. I went in and sat down in my oId seat in the back of the room and she looked at me funny and she said Charles. I dint remember she ever called me that before only Charlie so I said hello Miss Kinnian Im redy for my lesin today only I lost my reader that we was using. She startid to cry and run out of the room and everybody looked at me and I saw they wasnt the same pepul who used to be in my class."

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"I told her I didnt want to be smart any more. Thats not true. I still love her and I still want to be smart but I had to say that so shed go away. She gave Mrs Flynn money to pay the rent. I dont want that. I got to get a job. Please ... please let me not forget how to read and write ..."

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"I keep telling myself I must keep writing these reports so that somebody will know what is happening to me. But it gets harder to form the words and remember spellings. I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me impatient with myself."

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"I'm forgetting things that I learned recently. It seems to be following the classic pattern-the last things learned are the first things forgotten. Or
is that the pattern? I'd better look it up again .... "

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Deterioration progressing. I have become absent-minded. Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutionsas well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures. I guess the same thing is or will soon be happening to me. Now that it's definite, I don't want it to happen.

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The hypothesis here proven may be described simply in the following terms: Artifically increased intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional tothe quantity of the increase.

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"Seeing the past more clearly, I have decided to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of
increasing human intelligence levels. Who is better equipped for this work? Who else has lived in both worlds? These are my people. Let me use my gift to do something for them."

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The way the author portrays Charlie in the text really helps the reader understand Charlie's mental capacity at the time. The author uses incorrect spelling, ignorance of the things going on around Charlie , etcetera to show his slower mental state in the beginning. His spelling and grammar are very poor and he does not understand that his so called 'friends' are really making fun of him or the 'pictures' in the inkblots. As the story goes on after the operation, the author slowly changes these things by improving Charlie's grammar and spelling, and also making him have realizations of the world around him. Charlie makes important discoveries before slowly starting to deteriorate mentally to his former state with grammatical errors and ignorance of the world around him. The quotes throughout the presentation are milestones in both Charlie's mental development and deterioration.

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As his vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he obviously did not understand.  I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile, the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please. They were laughing at him because he was mentally retarded.[...]I was just like him! "

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"I figured out a new way to line up the machines in the factory, and Mr. Donnegan says it will save him ten thousand dollars a year in labor and increased production. He gave me a twenty-five-dollar bonus."

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"'Pictures. Hidden in the inkblots. Last time you told me that everyone
could see them and you wanted me to find them too.' He explained to me that the last time he had used almost the exact same words he was using now. I didn't believe it, and I still have the suspicion that
he misled me at the time just for the fun of it. Unless-I don't know any
more-could I have been that feeble-minded?"

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"I feel sick inside. Not sick like for a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time. [...] I didn't know what to do or where to turn. Everyone was looking at me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide myself. I ran out into the street and I threw up.

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"Finished Robinson Crusoe. I want to find out more about what
happens to him but Miss Kinnian says thats all there is. Why"

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"I beat Algernon! I dint even know I beat him until Burt the tester told me. Then the second time I lost because I got so exited I fell off the chair before I finished. But after that I beat him 8 more times. I must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon."

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"Their going to use me! Im so exited I can hardly write. [...]And she said Charlie your going to have a second chance. If you volenteer for this  experament you mite get smart."

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"I told him I saw a inkblot.[...]  I dont remember so good but he wantid me to say what was in the ink. I dint see nuthing in the ink but he said there was picturs there other pepul saw some picturs. I coudnt see any picturs."

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"I want to be smart."