Sorry I've been so neglegent recently. I've had science fair and all that jazz; I won, though!! And Christmas is only, what, four days away! I hope you're all in holiday spirit, unless you're a humbug. If you are, please exit the website by clicking the exit arrow in upper right hand corner of your browser and don't come back until you've realized that being a humbug is not nice... Just kidding!
Book: Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes
Pages: 221-245 (it's part of a textbook)
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Note: It was a really good story and we read it in class a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I should do it justice by posting about it.
Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man that faces mental retardation. He wants nothing more than to be smart, and when he is offered the oppurtunity to become smart, he snatches it up. Throughout the story, Charlie's intelligence is seen to slowly increase, then rapidly increase, then slowly deteriorate away. In this time, Charlie learns that his "friends" really laughed at him, not with him, and many educational things as well. He writes in his notes that he is curious as to what would happen (when he is more intelligent) if a genius would have their intelligence tripled; what would happen then?
So many questions; the world may never know the answer to them...
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