By: Elleanor.S
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It was very hard being Charlie Gordon before
the operation. Charlie’s tone has changed since
the operation. He’s using correct punctuations .
He speaks with proper etiquette. Many might
say he’s speaking “proper English” His diction
and syntax has gone beyond excellent. His
choice of words have gone from “rite” to
“right”. All these give us clues that Charlie is
becoming very intelligent.
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For example he used to spell the word
operation like this “operasun”, now he spells it
the right way. He used to write run-on
sentences now he revives them and looks over
them. Looking back over his progress reports
he’s realized how awful and sad his writings
used to be. He uses correct grammar and puts
sentences in the right order.
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Charlie’s relationships with Drs. Numer and
Strauss is becoming weird and distant.
Watching Algernon’s behavior, they think he’s
going to start behaving the same. Algernon has
been behaving violent and uncooperative.
They’re afraid he’s going to start acting strange
and dangerous like Algernon. They order him
to stop coming to the lab and seeing Algernon
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Charlie’s land lady is very worried about him
because he’s been staying indoors lately. He
refuses to come out and see anyone. She thinks
he’s going to die because of the way he acts. He
doesn’t eat or come out. He stays in his apartment
all day. His co-workers have totally done a 360 on
him. They all sign a petition to have him fired.
He’s alone and has no one. His “friends” have cut
him off and refused to be around him. He refuses
to see Miss. Kinnian. He doesn’t want her seeing
him sick and think he’s a loser. He’s all alone in his
apartment
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At this point Charlie has realized that he’s losing track
of time and things around him. He’s starting to forget
things. The surgery is finally taking its toll on Charlie.
He’s seen the way Algernon has been acting and is
certain the same is going to happen to him. He Starts
The Algernon-Gordon Effect to record what happened
to Algernon and what’s going to happen to him. He
does his own little research to find answers to what’s
happening to him and why he's starting to forget
things. As he’s doing this he stars forgetting how to
read and understand things. He’s losing his ability to
understand things no doubt. Is he going to end up like
Algernon……Dead?