Charly: Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

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The movie “Charly” was based on the novel “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes. The movie was made in 1968. The movie is about a man named Charly , he has a mental disability and is very slow. He has a hard time writing, speaking , and reading.
He works at a factory and is a janitor at a dough factory. The people at his work would always make fun of him for how slow he was. He began to attend at a night school to improve on his intelligence. It was a class for adults who had a hard time writing and most things that Charly couldn’t do. The teacher who taught the class believed that Charly would be good to use for a surgery that the doctors were going to use. Before they were going to use charly, they would do test on him and make
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