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The Real Life Of Charlie Gordon
John Robinson's real experience parallel's to the fictional story of Charlie Gordon because of the common things they both shared. For example, they both had brain disorders where they were mental disabled and couldn't do certain things. Both experienced bad friends that used them for fun and made them a joke in front of everyone. This is paralleled to Charlie by Franny and Joe who acted to be his friend,but used him and crossed the line for certain things. John and Charlie were treated less than a human with no respect as if they didn't exist. John and Charlie both used pro. After there procedure they became known of various of things. For example, both started knowing better in there work they did. John looked deeper and started being happy or proud of the song lyrics. Charlie gets happy when he starts to …show more content…
He learned that they both were just using him for entertainment and that they are not his true friends. John and Charlie both were both inspiring; John helped people with problems and Charlie helped create better understanding of the procedure by the help of science and health. The procedures had created many emotions in both stories and the emotions were the ones to show John and Charlie what's right and what's wrong after the procedure was varying of or stopped working through the process. My thoughts of the "real life" version of Charlie's story was that the story was funny, sad, and created a feeling of happiness for me. The real life version story was funny because John Robinson started crying while watching the movie. The story was sad because of how his friends treated him and what John had gone through, but what mood created happiness was that they both learned from the procedure what true identity is, what being intelligence is, and what friendship really is. They both learn intelligence is not important than trying your best to do something or to

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