Charlie always said how other people were so smart and how he wanted to be smart like them. When he got the surgery he got to experience it. In the first paragraph, it says, “Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.” Charlie got the surgery and go to become smart, so he got to live his dream for a short period of time. In the text, it states, “Thats why Im gonna keep trying to get smart so I can have that feeling agen. Its a good feeling to know things and be smart.” After the surgery, Charlie enjoyed feeling of being smart, even though he lost the feeling he still got to have the closure of what it would feel like. Once he became smart he got to feel what it was like to have real