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Charly is a little slower than other people. He never had that many friends, or a good family to live with. When Charlie was a little boy, he had a rough time with his parents always fighting about his disabilities. He goes to a class for slower adults almost every day. Charly’s teacher, Miss. Kinnian, suggests that Charlie should try being a test subject for an experiment, which doctors will try and make his brain function like it should, and maybe even have him be like everybody else for the rest of his life. Charly takes this opportunity and later finds out that being just like everybody else isn’t exactly what he wants. Plot twists and emotional moments will make the readers recognize how society today needs to change.
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This is the best part of the book because the author goes into great detail on how Charlie is changing. It makes the reader keep guessing what is happening next. Charlie starts to become very intelligent and he is now in a relationship with Miss Kinnian. Although with being very intelligent comes with great responsibility. Charlie had forgotten that he had once been a part of the group referred to “special ed” along with his friends in the class for slower adults. He now treats everyone, including his old friends and Miss Kinnian, like they are less important, which is how he used to be treated. He is beginning to lose all of his friends. A mouse, named Algernon, who is going through the same operation as Charlie, is one of Charlie's best friends. Even though he is losing many people he still has that special connection with Algernon, he tells Algernon, how he feels, even though he is a mouse. The special relationship between Charlie and the mouse is a very important part of the book. It makes the reader understand that Charlie still has some of his old self still in him. The “new and improved” Charly would never pretend like an animal would be able to understand him. The “old” Charlie would think an animal would be able to …show more content…
During the operation, Charlie and his old teacher, Miss Kinnian, start to develop a relationship. Charlie is starting to get to the point where he is completing his tests in record timing and he is outsmarting his doctors. Charlie, smart enough to figure out what was going on, realizes that his brain will soon decrease with all of the knowledge he had gained. The theme of this story is, don’t underestimate what people are capable of doing, for it can hurt others. The setting of the story is around the early to late 1960s. The conflict in the story is Charlie is going through an operation to make his more intelligent. While he gets smarter his personality is changing. The indirect characters are Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur. They were both very. They never told Charlie about his operation coming to an end, Charly had to find that out. The direct characters were Charlie and Miss Kinnian. Charlie was a sweet guy in the book, he loved to do for others and was always thinking about someone other than himself. Miss Kinnian was a very sweet lady. She was very patient and always made her students feel like they should. She always looked at people the same, which was something special to Charlie. An internal conflict in the story is Charlie debating whether he should go through with the operation. An external conflict is when Charlie is telling Dr. Strauss and

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