What Does It Mean To Pull A Charlie Gordon

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be 37 and have an IQ of 68? In the story “Flowers For Algernon,” this was Charlie Gordon life and he wanted it to change. He made a decision to have an operation done to his brain that changed his life. Charlie’s decision to have this surgery was a bad idea because he found out who his really friends were, died faster, and also didn’t want to become dumb again.
After the operation took place, Charlie started to realize lots of things that the old Charlie wouldn’t. One of the things was that his “friends,” Frank and Joe, aren’t really his friends. On page 360 Charlie says, “Now I know what it means to pull a Charlie Gordon.” They were making fun of Charlie because of his mental disability. The people

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