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flowers of algenon 1-50

   Charlie is thirty-two years old, he has a job at Donner’s Bakery, and he takes Miss Alice Kinnian’s literacy class at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults for three times a week. Charlie has an IQ of sixty-eight and he is a poor speller. He hopes that Dr. Strauss and Professor will choose him for an experiment intended to improve his IQ. Miss Kinnian recommended him for the experimental surgery. Dr. Strauss' tells Charlie must record everything he thinks and remembers in these journal entries.

   Charlie worries that Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss will cut him from the experiment because he has failed a Rorschach test. Professor Nemur asks Charlie why he tries so hard to learn, and he tells professor that when he learns something in Miss Kinnians class at the school, he cannot remember what he had learned. Charlie wants to be in experimental operation, but it has never been tested on humans. The doctors need permission, but apart from his uncle Herman, Charlie has not spoken to his mother, father, nor sister Norma for many years. He worried too much and it cause himself cant sleep.
 
   Charlie experienced "crazy tests" to see whether or not he is a suitable subject for the Beekman experiment. A Test needs Charlie to invent story lines based on pictures, but he scared that he will be hit for telling lies about people whom he does not even know. Charlie races against the smart mouse ten times, and each time Algernon solves the maze first. Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur decide to use Charlie in the experiment. He will be the first human being to have his intelligence raised by surgery. Dr. Strauss reassures him that Charlie is good-natured and determined to learn. Professor Nemur warns Charlie that the experiment might fail or succeed only temporarily. Full of courage and superstition, Charlie believes his rabbit's foot will help make a success.

   Charlie feels scared in the hospital. Charlie's co-workers have not been told why Charlie is having an operation. Miss Kinnian visits and Charlie senses that she is nervous. Clutching his lucky rabbit's foot, his good-luck penny, and his horseshoe, Charlie hopes the operation will make him smart like other people so that he will have many friends. Charlie resumes his progress three days after the operation. Charlie reports that the operation did not hurt. Charlie hopes the operation will make him smart enough to discuss religion and politics with Joe Carp,Frank, and Gimpy. Charlie complains that he does not know how to remember. Miss Kinnian visits and tells Charlie to be patient. Becoming smart will take time and a lot of hard work, but she has faith that he will succeed.

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