Charlie Dialectical Journal

First of all, why Charlie shouldn’t have gotten the surgery is because he started understanding everyone and how they felt. This stressed him out a lot. He felt like he didn't belong with others. “Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I'm ashamed.” (209). In this sentence, Charlie recognizes why his friends liked having him around so much. It was so that they could make fun of him and play tricks on him for their own fun. Also Charlie had felt bad about a kid at a restaurant. “I jumped up and shouted, “Shut up! Leave him alone! It's not his fault he can't understand! He can't help what he is! But for

1. A large amount of construction and building work was going on in the city. Unfortunately for the people, construction meant delays, but all for a good end result. “Construction delays elsewhere on the grounds were especially frustrating” (pg 167) Chicago is booming with new buildings and constructions sights everywhere. This quote shows the work of construction that is all over the city.

After the operation, in only a couple of months, Charlie starts showing signs of new intelligence. His grammar, improved, and he is able to reflect on what his does in the past something he wasn’t able to do before. He had finally gotten something use had always desired. Then, everything and everyone turned on him. In “PROGRESS REPORT 12” April 30th (pg. 60) Charlie writes: “now, they hate me for my knowledge and understanding. What in the name of god do they want of me? They’ve driven me out of the factory. Now I more alone than ever before…” Charlie got what he always wanted, and now he lost everything he had. It was a sacrifice it sounded like he didn’t want to make. I can tell just be the tone of his writing. This shows that we should embrace everything that we have. Charlie didn’t embrace everything, although he appreciated most of the thing he never became happy not being able to just enjoy life as it is.

If you read the diary of a high school girl, what could you learn about her? The name of her best friend, what kind of a person she is, and maybe even signs of troubles deeper than the bad grade she got on her last chemistry exam would pop out at you. She probably would not explicitly state these things, either—they would become apparent simply by looking at how often her best friend’s name appeared within the pages, how she interacted with the people around her, and how she described her thoughts and feelings. Seeing things directly from her perspective would give you a unique look at who she was as a person, what her relationships with other people were like, and what her take on events was, all without ever being told what they were like

“Mom I need to tell you something,” Charlie said to himself in front of a mirror. “No that's wrong… I got it. Mom I know you don’t listen to me that much, but I need you to listen to this. No- No-No. That’s wrong too.” Charlie was feeling very pressured because the monsters needed help, and he knew that telling someone else about them would be bad. This is bad because it would just put them in a different more serious danger. Also, Charlie’s mom doesn’t give him much attention, so she might not even help if he told her.

1.The narrator wants to go to the bazaar in order to impress a girl. The girl can not go to the bazaar so the narrator tells her he can go to the bazaar and he will get her something.

Whenever I think of something not appearing to be something you first thought it was, I always think of water. Depending on how deeply you look down through it, the things underneath seem to be a lot bigger than if you were to bring them back up to the surface. Usually when you do that, you get a more accurate look at the object you’re now inspecting, as well as a closer look at its details. To assume that you’re looking at a sunken yacht at the bottom of a small lake seems ridiculous, but you wouldn’t know any different unless you questioned the image you see.

Understandably, this angers and frustrates Charlie. This is probably impacting him more than he writes about, it's a big deal and such a big realization to just suddenly come to. Charlie doesn't quite understand all the psychological aspects and tests of the operation he went through and not being able to learn about it frustrates him too, like when he had to do the Rorschach test again and got very angry. Charlie's co-workers at the bakery are starting to notice a change in him and Charlie feels tension and a hostility between the group. Charlie remembers more incidents involving his parents, and they are argue about Charlie being “normal” or not.

What defines intelligence? Is it how much you know? Or could it be how much you want to learn? These are the questions that Charlie Gordon was probably thinking before his fatal destiny. All he wanted was to know what is was like to be perceptive. He became envious of his peers and the world around him. Charlie thrived to understand the world through the eyes of a genius. However, he truly should've been careful with what he had wished for.

I do not consider myself to be anybody’s best friend. While I do have many friends that I consider myself to be close with (and I’d like to believe they opposite is true), the school year has just started and many friendships that existed last year may or may not fade away as time passes by. This is because friendships are mainly built on conversations shared daily, whether they be in the classroom or outside on social media. Even if one person is reluctant to hold a conversation, then the bonds of friendship will slowly and steadily break apart due to the lack of sustained interaction on a daily basis. Communication is paramount to ensuring that a relationship is maintained. In my case, I do not believe I interact with anyone on a daily basis enough to be considered “best friends.” Sure, I would consider many people I’m acquainted with good friends, but that is the extent of our friendship. On the other hand, I have several good friends because we have relatively good chemistry. Successful interaction with one another has led to a mutual desire to sustain our friendships.

Charlie is better off before the surgery because he is more friendly and social. Charlie is more friendly and social before the surgery because he doesn’t have the ability to comprehend or understand how depressing the world is around him, so he just focuses on what happens to him and the job at hand. However, after surgery Charlie is so depressed and down with his intelligence declining that he doesn’t want to do anything. Charlie stated in his progress report that, “I lie in bed for days and I don’t know who or where I am.” Before the surgery Charlie never got so depressed that he just lied around all day not wanting to do anything, so that is why he is better off without the surgery.

In chapters 22-32, what happens in the story is when Maniac ran away from the west end and he meets a new friend name, Grayson. Along the way, Grayson is curious about where he lives and who is he. When Maniac told him about living Beale's family, he surprised how they didn't care about what color Maniac is. They even didn't care about sharing things with Maniac. Later on, They both help each other with things they struggle with like reading so it can help push Maniac to go to school since it really bothers him. But one thing that really gets the attention to Maniac the most is that they don't have an address. Maniac paints an address to feel like he has a home again. During his new "home", Grayson and Maniac celebrate Christmas by decorating

Overall, I believe that Charlie is more happy when he is less intelligent before the operation. I say this because there are various times where Charlie shows he is happy at the beginning of the story, and there are various times where Charlie shows he is unhappy towards the end. One example of when Charlie shows how he is happy is when in one of his progress reports he says how he always laughs with his friends at work. Even though he is talking about how the people at work make fun of him, he thinks that they are laughing together and he is happy. Another example of how Charlie is happy at the beginning is when the people interview Charlie.

Though Charlie Gordon’s intellect quotient surgery had the (temporary) effect of skyrocketing him into the status of a genius, it also had the adverse result of bringing Charlie into a state of sadness. Teased and bullied thoroughly during his lifetime as a classified retardate, Charlie actually did experience happiness

Charlie surgery was not worth it because it did not make him happier. Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man who is intellectually disabled. He hates not being able to spell many words, and he also hates not being able to remember very much. Charlie get’s selected for a surgery that could fix this problem. He is very excited that he got this opportunity. But after the surgery, he was getting smarter but he was not any happier. After the surgery, Charlie says “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”(Keyes 55). Charlie had taken a break from his job after surgery so he could recover. Charlie was starting to realize he was getting smarter, and he was so excited that he was. But when he went back to work the first time after surgery, he realized the people he was working with did