Charlie Gordon is the main character in the story “Flowers for Algernon”. He’s a 37 year-old adult with an IQ of 68. He is mentally challenged but he desperately wants to be smart. Charlie is asked to have a surgery that the doctors think will make him smarter but the results are not guaranteed. Charlie will do anything to gain more intelligence and therefore agrees to have the surgery and take part in the scientists’ experimentation on him and his advances. Charlie’s surgery does in fact increase his knowledge (at least in the beginning). As Charlie becomes smarter he starts to think, act and see things differently than before. Before the surgery that Charlie had, he had a low IQ of only 68. He had many spelling/grammar/punctuation problems
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He becomes packed with knowledge that can take a lifetime to obtain. His spelling becomes excellent and his punctuation is perfect. His memory even starts to increase, too. Although it is good that Charlie’s surgery worked, with all his new found intelligence comes his awareness of the world around him and how people have been treating him. He starts to realize that this whole time, his coworkers weren’t laughing with him, they were laughing at him. He learns what “pull a Charlie Gordon” and all the other antics that his “friends” have pulled. He becomes depressed thinking that this whole time he thought that he had real friends when in reality they were all making fun of him and just using him for a good laugh. Along with realizing the reality of his coworkers, he also finds out how beautiful Miss Kinnian is and all these characteristics that he’s never bothered to pay attention to. He starts to develop a crush for her. Now after the surgery, Charlie doesn’t become so reliable at what Nemur and Strauss have to say. He questions their experiment and ends up finding the fault in it. He even creates his own philosophy based on it. Charlie also starts to beat Algernon at the races and feels sorry for him so he then decides to make him his
He becomes packed with knowledge that can take a lifetime to obtain. His spelling becomes excellent and his punctuation is perfect. His memory even starts to increase, too. Although it is good that Charlie’s surgery worked, with all his new found intelligence comes his awareness of the world around him and how people have been treating him. He starts to realize that this whole time, his coworkers weren’t laughing with him, they were laughing at him. He learns what “pull a Charlie Gordon” and all the other antics that his “friends” have pulled. He becomes depressed thinking that this whole time he thought that he had real friends when in reality they were all making fun of him and just using him for a good laugh. Along with realizing the reality of his coworkers, he also finds out how beautiful Miss Kinnian is and all these characteristics that he’s never bothered to pay attention to. He starts to develop a crush for her. Now after the surgery, Charlie doesn’t become so reliable at what Nemur and Strauss have to say. He questions their experiment and ends up finding the fault in it. He even creates his own philosophy based on it. Charlie also starts to beat Algernon at the races and feels sorry for him so he then decides to make him his