Direct Characterization Of Charlie In Flowers For Algernon

Charlie Gordon, the main character in the story also a mentally challenged 32 year old, is picked by a group of scientists to have an experimental surgery to boost his intelligence. Mrs. Kinnian, charles teacher at the school for the mentally challenged, recommended Charlie for this procedure because he is determined to do anything to become intelligent. The scientist who will help him along his journey are Dr. strauss and Professor Nemur. They start him off by telling him he has to keep a journal and the reader is reading this short story that Charlie writes. The reader can tell that Charlie isn 't too bright just by reading the first few journal entries. Charlie works at a box factory in New York as a janitor and a delivery boy. Charlie thinks he is friends

Algernon slowly starts to slip in his intelligence and he starts to be more aggressive. Charlie finds out about this and he starts to worry that the same will happen to him and shortly after Algernon changes he dies. Charlie is getting more and more worried about losing his intelligence so he starts researching. He spends all his time in the lab even spending the night always writing down his thoughts and trying to figure out when he will lose his intelligence. He slowly starts to realize that his intelligence is fading and he knows soon enough he won 't understand anything. Charlie starts to notice that he can 't even read his own writings, he knows he did them but he doesn 't understand them. Charlie slowly starts to become depressed and locks himself into his house sleeping all the time not ever doing anything. Charlie starts forgetting everything and he even forgets that he doesn 't go to Miss Kinnians class anymore. He goes in and sits in his seat saying he 's ready for his lesson and that he forgot his book, she starts to cry and runs out of the room. In the end Charlie decides that he 's going to run away from New York and he leaves a note for everyone he ever loved or