Charlie Gordon Case

He wears glasses but only for watching T.V. and movies. Charlie has a great motive because all he wants is to be smart for example, "After the operashun I'm gonna try to be smart. I'm gonna try awful hard. (p.11)". Charlie, being intellectually disabled, doesn't understand things, making him constantly happy. This is because he doesn't think about life. Charlie gets bullied but thinks they're being nice to him when they do things like "He really pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. I don't know why they say it but they always laff and I laff too. (p.23)". After the operation, he had a different outlook on life. He wanted to become smart so that he could talk with his coworkers about intelligent things like politics. Although, the operation made him too smart. His way of thinking was based on facts and intelligence, rather than emotion, feelings and instinct. Charlie was a genius and they weren't. He didn't know how to control his emotion because he never knew he had them, often making him go into depression and be

Charlie Gordon has faced isolation his entire life. His family had given up attempting to increase his intelligence. His coworkers laugh at him, but Charlie doesn’t understand that he is

Charlie Gordon’s doctors acted ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. In the beginning Charlie took a Rorschach test to test his personality. When he took the test, he said he saw nothing in the inkblots. Charlie Gordon is in his 30’s; his IQ was 68, despite this fact, Charlie spends time with his teacher Miss Kinnian to get smarter. Miss Kinnian teaches at a school for slow adults.

In 1992, Roy Brown was convicted of the death of another individual. The victim was fond beaten, strangled, and stabbed at her farmhouse. She was a social worker and was found covered in bite marks and saliva was obtained as DNA evidence. Mr. Brown served 15 years in prison before he was able to prove himself innocent from his cell with the assistance of the Innocence Project. A similar case occurred in 1989, Steven Barnes was convicted of the murder and rape of a 16 year old girl. The victim was found raped and strangled to death on a dirt road. His truck implied him to be a suspect. Even though there was a great amount of statements that supported his alibi, three years after the crime occurred, Mr. Barnes served 20 years in prison before being freed by the Innocence Project.

“You just pulled a Charlie Gordon.” That was often said by his co-workers. Charlie Gordon was an adult male in his 30’s that was mentally challenged. Everyone made fun of him his whole life for it. There are many conflicts in the story, but there are two that stood out for me. First, his so called “friends” signed a petition to have him fired, due to him getting more intelligent. Secondly, once Algeron starts to loose his intelligence charlie realizes he's going to start losing it soon too!

Before his brain operation, Charlie Gordon was made fun of due to his low IQ by his coworkers and other members of his community. Whenever anybody had done something they would regard as ‘stupid’, his so-called friends would say they “pull[ed] a Charlie Gordon” [Keyes 293]. Gordon, in his feeble-minded phase of the novel, was the running gag of his neighbours and coworkers. Whenever a member of the community would ridicule Charlie, “they always laft” [Keyes, 289] but he “do[esn’t] know why they say that” [Keyes 289].

Charlie comes across some doctors that say they want to do an experiment on him that will make him smarter. He is all for it. The doctors names are Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. This experiment is significant because Charlie would really like more friends and doesn't want people to think he is dumb.

Charlie Gordon in the beginning of the story, is presented as a mentally retarded adult who attends night school and works at a factory. Early in the story Charlie struggles in school and has abominable spelling and vocabulary. Charlie uses his thoughts and words in his progress reports to portray his story. Due to his lack of intelligence Charlie misspells many words and we observe this in his progress reports. “Mr. Strauss says I shud rite down what I think and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.” (285). In the beginning of the story, we also recognize how Charlie struggles with a test, where he has to think and observe what he sees in ink blots. Charlie is unable to think of

Charlie is a 37 year old man who has the mind of an 8 year old boy. Charlie is happy and innocent, and living his life as he desires. Charlie was taken advantage of by some doctors who were experimenting how to make a person three times smarter than they are now. The doctors are well aware that this experiment is highly dangerous, but Charlie is not. Charlie carries on with the operation and eventually he gets to a point where he is a genius.

“Flowers for Algernon” contains numerous themes throughout Charlie Gordon’s journey. Charlie Gordon the story’s protagonist is a 32-year-old mentally disabled man who has the opportunity of a lifetime to undergo very special surgeries which will most likely change his life for the better, hopefully. This operation has already been performed on a laboratory mouse named Algernon, who received astonishing and outstanding results, so the doctor is convinced it can alter a human’s disability and help millions of people. The reason Charlie was chosen for this operation is his teacher Miss. Kinnian, who said he was a very hard worker and valuable asset. After the operation, Charlie’s intelligence increased rapidly and soon became a genius. Charlie was asked to keep progress reports of his personal experiences and as he gets smarter he improves in grammar, spelling, and wordplay. However, all actions have consequences, the first side effect are flashbacks to Charlie’s childhood, which contain emotional and depressing events, the second side effect is a lack of social skills this could be the operation or not, but it certainly increased after the surgery, this shows when Charlie tries to make new friends or keep old ones but no one understands him and when people don’t understand something they get scared and destroy it or back off. The only true friend Charlie had was Miss. K, which soon became his girlfriend. After a few weeks Charlie

Charlie Gordon is a man with a problem that makes him dumb. He has one of the lowest IQ’s out of the world with a 68. He has friends at a factory where he works. What he knows and calls friends are actually just mean people making fun of him. Charlie goes to a school made specifically for people like him. He has a nice teacher named Mrs. Kinnian

Charlie Gordon is a 32 year man who is mentally disabled, works at Donner's bakery as a janitor, and lives independently in a apartment building. He also attends evening classes at Beekman College Center for Mentally challenged adults to learn to read and write. His teacher Miss. Kinnian is very helpful and caring towards Charlie, she even recommended him for a research experiment on intelligence. Charlie was medically changed to be smarter yet his life was changed for the

The Character Of Charlie Gordon In “Flowers For Algernon” By: Ryan M. “They were laughing at him because he was mentally retarded.” In the story, “Flowers For Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old male. He is mentally challenged, has a below normal I.Q. and is childish because of this. Despite being mentally challenged, he is friendly and willing to learn.

Have you ever wanted to have an IQ of 200+ and be considered a genius. That’s exactly what Charlie Gordon got but it didn’t last as long as he wanted it to. Charlie was selected to be the only human to undergo this experiment. First it took a while for his intelligence to start to increase and Charlie thought it wasn’t working. Then Charlie saw a huge difference in his spelling. Charlie’s IQ sat at 300+ plus for a couple of months and then he realized that Algernon, the mouse, was starting to be vicious and biting people. That was the first clue that the surgery may not last forever. Charlie had some very difficult times because of the surgery and because of that I think he should have never have gotten it.

Charlie Gordon was the main character in “Flowers For Algernon”. The author Daniel Keyes portrays him as a brave, honest, and outgoing person who tries to get through life while living with his disability of a low IQ. Charlie loves his work at a box factory where he thinks all his friends love him, but really they take advantage of his disability and he will later figure that out while he goes through surgery that ends up tripling his IQ. Charlie Gordon is very persistent and outgoing to go through surgery and want to become as smart as normal people.