Charlie Gordon Flowers For Algernon Analysis

Charlie talks about Norma his younger sister the most but Charlie only remembers bad memories with his sister for example Norma use to become jealous of he brother because she thought he was getting special treatment.

How does Charlie change through the course of the novel? How different is he from the person he is at the beginning of the novel to how he is at the end? Do you consider then novels end to be tragic or inspiring? How so?

Simran Saini Ms.Young ENG 2D1-01 19 November 2014 Someone Else Tomorrow “We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us, ” Joan. D Vinge.

In the story, Charlie experiences being lonely in different aspects of his life. The first one that he feels this in is his family. His family consists of his parents, his brother and sister, and his aunt Helen. His parents, especially his dad, have never really been that involved or shown much interest in his life. This is shown when after he had been on LSD and was found in the snow, they never questioned if he was on drugs, they just contributed it to his prior problems of “seeing” things. His dad usually just ignored Charlie because he was different and quieter than the other kids. Charlie’s brother isn’t in the story much because he’s away at college playing football for Penn State. Charlie’s sister is in the story pretty often, but she doesn’t really talk to

Charlie gordon did the unthinkable he not only surpassed all of his peer’s but, he leaped from one extreme to another, tripling his intelligence. Charlie gordon had the opportunity to triple his intelligence and, he took it it was a life changing opportunity and it was an amazing choice. Charlie is a disabled man in the science fiction story “ Flowers for Algernon” by daniel keyes. After this artificial sugary ( A.I ) Charlie felt love, he contributed to science and, he achieved his goal. Concluding the ( A.I ) surgery was in fact a great idea even tho it wasn't permanent.

Charlie’s mental and emotional state. Many times in the story one must question his mental state and why he seems to be so sensitive to everything enough to cry. Not to mention at one point he blacks out probably due to the rage he felt at the time of Patrick getting beat up by his ex-boyfriend and his friends (Chbosky pgs. 150-151). It is later shown that Charlie does have PTSD, which is a disorder that develops in some people after a traumatic event in their life. In this case, him being molested by his Aunt as a child and her death on his birthday. As for his emotions they are a roller coaster on their own on page two of the book, he says he is “both happy and sad, and I’m still trying to figure out how that could

Secondly, Charlie’s relationship with people like Gimpy, Joe, Frank, etc. are becoming strained throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, Charlie states that he always looks forward to working in the bakery and seeing his friends Gimpy, Joe and Frank. “Their my frends and they really like me.”, Charlie declares in the story that when he came back from the

To give a quick summary and background of the book, Charlie dealt with off and on depression throughout his life since his Aunt Helen was killed in a car accident. His best friend committed suicide which triggered several emotions: guilt, anger, grief, sadness, isolation, abandonment, loneliness, and brought

So Charlie takes Raymond back to LA with him, on the way from Ohio to LA Charlie somehow changes his attitude towards his brother Raymond and in the end he wants to take care of him. At the end Charlie realizes that he can't care for Raymond because of his Autism, but he still cares deeply for Raymond and vows to visit often.

Charlie Gordon is a mentally handicapped thirty-two year old man. He wants to become smart and be like everyone else. He cannot do anything for himself so he has a teacher, Miss Kinnian. She teaches him to spell and read. Although he cannot remember what he writes or reads he still tries. Dr. Strauss and Prof. Nemur have a dramatic turn of events for Charlie. They offer him the brain-enhancing operation.

Though he is not old, he has had a lot of horrible things happen in his life. He is an outcast at school, his best friend, Michael, committed suicide, and his Aunt Helen died in a car accident. In addition, Charlie is also very intelligent and loves books, he is selfless, and caring. This causes Charlie to forget to love himself, and fail to comprehend how love actually works, so they accept what they think they deserve. Not only does this happen to Charlie but to some of the people around him. Charlie's sister for example, she accepts the fact that her boyfriend hit her, and continues to pursue a relationship with him. This may be something she acquired from their mom, whose father was abusive and she had nothing to do except accept it. Another example of this comes from Patrick’s relationship with Brad. Their relationship is not only hidden from everyone but it's unhealthy. Brad treats Patrick as if he is nothing. And Patrick accepts it because he believes that Brad should be able to take his time, and announces their relationship when he is ready; however when they are alone, he and Patrick fine. On the other hand, Brad is being beaten by his father, who hates the fact that he is

Charlie Gordon, a 32 year old ignoramus man is motivated to know and understand knowledge. His teacher, Miss Alice Kinnian, suggests a special experiment due to his exceptional eagerness to learn. Additionally, Charlie’s friends always mocks and ridicules him, and only after Charlie gains intelligence did he gain enough clarity to understand what it means to “Pull a Charlie Gordon”. Once the procedure was done on Charlie his brain grew, together with his partner Algernon, a mouse; to the point where his friends portray respect and reverence towards him. Unfortunately, the experiment failed and Algernon, his mouse died. At that point, he started to regress and loss all his wisdom; Although, Charlie’s intelligibility may have disappeared, but he still remains optimistic; “But if I try and practis very hard maybe I’ll get a littl smarter and know what all the words are”. In the end, Charlie manages to gain awareness even in his heartbreaking situation and decides to moves out of New York, to a place where nobody knows he was once a genius and now

Charlie and his family are a middle class white family who practice religion, and prays before eating. His family appears to be supportive of Charlie with his struggles. Charlie’s personality changes in his freshman year as a result of everything that has happened. to him, in remembering what his Aunt Helen had done and his friend committing suicide, and being bullied in school.

Charlie experiences molestation at the hands of his “favourite person in the world”, his aunt Helen. Chbosky uses irony by Helen being his favourite person while also doing horrific things to him, we he does not know about until near the end of the novel. As an audience we discover, alongside Charlie, that he was in fact molested and abused by Helen. Through this discovery, Charlie’s entire world view is shattered and he suffers severe PTSD and eventually leads to his hospitalisation. Aunt Helen is a character which triggers two types of forgiveness within Charlie. He must learn to forgive what she did to him in order for him to heal his emotional pain. He also needs to learn to forgive himself as he has always blamed himself for the death of his aunt. She died on the way to buy him an extra Christmas present, which is heavily implied to be a way to keep the boy quiet about the molestation. Once he has forgiven himself, Charlie is able to rid himself of the guilt and start the process of achieving mental stability. The discovery of forgiveness is ultimately what transforms Charlie from a mentally distraught state to a sense of

This critical period in Charlies life is accompanying his awareness that he can no longer stand what he stood for in his past.