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Lot Of Problems Reading The Book
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Rest Of The Family Worst Part
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Charlie Takes Ray Book To Read Brother
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Flowers For Algernon Love And Friendship
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Amp Quot Gold Rush
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1,033 wordsGuy The Watcher The Watcher Guy Vanderhaeghe This incredible short story is about a little boy named Charlie Bradley, who isn? t like all the other kids his age. He was a very sick boy. Charlie had a loving mother who cared for him when he was sick. They seemed to have both one terrible thing in common, a bad chest. The Bradley's did not own a television set, so Charlie had to find different means of entertainment on his long sick days at home. He learned that if he kept quiet and still, the adu...
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Gold Rush Doesn T
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Falls In Love Miss Kinnian
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Mentally Retarded Person Charlie Gordon
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1,694 wordsFlowers for Algernon By: Daniel Keyes By: Nick Kouvaras For: Giannakopoulos Date: 08 / 03 / 01 Eng 3 A 1 Flowers for Algernon By: Daniel Keyes JOURNAL ENTRY # 1 At the beginning of the novel, Charlie is like any other normal mentally handicapped adult, but there is one thing that separates him from the others which is the fact that he has motivation to learn how to read and write properly. He has been highly recommended by his teacher, Miss Kinnian, for a unique scientific operation, which incre...
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1,129 wordsFlowers for Algernon introduces the reader to Charlie Gordon, a thirty-to year old boy, who will ultimately face the hardest realization ever imagined in his life. Professor Nemur and Doctor Strauss become pivotal characters to Charlie s experiment. Alice Kinnian s relationship with Charlie at first seems simple, but as Charlie becomes smarter, he suddenly realizes a desire for her other than a teacher. Donner s Bakery sets the stage for most of Charlie s adult life as a primary meeting place of...
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Falls In Love Miss Kinnian
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726 wordsMedical operations are carried out everyday, but for some, an operation can change a persons life. One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, the patient regressed dramatically. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, this intelligence operation was preformed, and the patient was Charlie Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but experienced psychological traumas, loneliness, disillus...
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Flowers For Algernon Mentally Challenged
682 wordsSummary of g Flowers for Algernon h The book g Flowers for Algernon h by Daniel Keyes is about a 32 year old mentally challenged man named Charles Gordon who gets a special operation. This operation has never been done on another human being and therefore Charlie would be the first. This operation is said to be able to change a mentally challenged human into a regular person, even greater. It all starts when Charlie is nominated to be a possible Candidate of this new operation. He is told to wri...
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Charlie Professor Nemur
1,118 wordsThe book Flowers for Algernon takes place in the United States of America in the city of New York. A good deal of this book takes place in Professor Nemur? s lab. The reason much of the story takes place here is because it is the place where the experiments take place. The rest of the story happens in multiple places. Charlie? s apartment is one consistently visited setting. Donner? s Bakery, where Charlie works, is another. This book features many colorful characters, the main one being Charlie...
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Rest Of The Family Charlie
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Story Shows Life Back
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