Charlie Gordon, after discovering that Dr. Strauss and Nemur can’t compare to his genius mind, runs away with Algernon. When in the Exhibition of their work Charlie let’s Algernon scale from his cage and leaves with him back to New York. He is very confused and disappointed to know that the directors of this experiment didn’t have much knowledge about it and were frauds. Charlie is considerate and understands their brain capacity and knows that he is a genius so they aren’t the same. As he goes back he doesn’t return to the lab or the college where he studies. He goes to find an apartment for himself and Algernon where he meets Fay. His beautiful and young neighbor from across the hall. Fay is an artist and we can see that she isn’t interested in anything with science or psychological involvement; as when she sees Charlie’s room she is bother by how organized it is. Charlie is emotionally comfortable with Fay and isn’t afraid of her. He is in some way attracted to her and she feels the same. One night he gets him drunk and tries to sleep with him but the next morning he is notified that nothing happened because as he was drunk he was acting like a child. From the past readings we know that Charlie learns so fast yet he is sti whine emotionally. He tries to find a formula or a scientific basis to find an answer to this action but his innocence and purity and emotional state can’t be dealt with science. He feels like there’s a kid, his younger self, watching them. He tries again with Fay and this time he overcomes his fear of being with a woman. He isn’t in love with Fay because he loves Alice. He tries to go back with her but that was before he overcame his fear of being attached to another human being physically. Charlie starts noticing something about Algernon and his violent actions. Soon, Algernon is found dead. This means lots of things. If Algernon, the first one to try the experiment, dies, it means sooner or later Charlie will as well. With this new information Charlie tries his best to find a solution to this problem and talks to Alice and finally decides to step up and make love to her. Now that they’re relationship is stronger it makes Alice feel even more depressed. Charlie slowly starts losing his knowledge and we can see that by his return of bad grammar and spelling mistakes. In his last progress report he writes a farewell letter to Alice and Dr. Nemur giving him advice and reminding them to bring Flowers for Algernon to his grave. If I were to write a sequel I would make Alice, and Burt, to prevent Charlie from losing his knowledge. Charlie could’ve have secret journals where he had information about his experiment and give it to them. Since Burt worked in the lab he can secretly get files from the experiment in the lab. Alice, with all her knowledge of Charlie, also works at the lab and is a teacher, so she could help him out. Alice also is emotionally attached to Charlie and I she doesn’t want to see him suffer or die. She would rather help him to stay alive because she loves him.
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Paulina
3/4/2018 09:23:32 am
Wow nice description of the ending and what your sequel would look like. I can tell that all the character fell in love with Charlie and in your sequel its a great idea to have his friends help him not loose his knowledge. Did the book leave you off not knowing exactly what will happen to Charlie? Is there going to be a second book or is this the only one there is?
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