Charlie Gordon's Flowers For Algernon

Can being intelligent and realizing things the way they are affect you in a negative way? Well, in my opinion it can because In flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon has disabilities, however he gets an operation that makes his knowledge increase. In the beginning of the short story, Charlie’s co-workers make fun of him but it doesn't have a negative effect on him. Throughout the story Charlie’s knowledge and understanding increases mentally and emotionally. For example, Charlie’s knowledge increases mentally because he becomes incredibly smart, he can read, comprehend and write and do many activities, his knowledge increases emotionally because he realizes that the people surrounding him have him around to make fun of. Charlie progresses
Charlie improves his knowledge of learning throughout the story. In the short story Flowers for Algernon Charlie’s co-workers make fun of him by saying to “Pull a Charlie Gordon.” In the beginning of the story Charlie thinks that his co-workers are being funny by saying to “Pull a Charlie Gordon” but as Charlie got smarter he realized that they were actually teasing him, and he feels ashamed. Pulling a Charlie Gordon is basically doing something ridiculous . The story states “Now i know what it means when they say to “Pull a Charlie Gordon” I’m ashamed.” (Keyes, 209). Charlie realizes that “Pulling a Charlie Gordon” is not a nice thing to say, he feels ashamed because he realizes that Joe and Frank, and the others have him around to make fun of him. This proves that Charlie progresses his knowledge of learning throughout the
Well, Charlie Gordon doesn't realize he does dumb stuff until the middle of the story. For example, in the beginning of the story Joe and Frank took him out to Muggy’s, a somewhat bar, and they got him drunk and Charlie didn’t know he was doing wrong. Later on in the story they take him out again, and Charlie refused to drink, however he ended up drinking and fell and everybody started laughing at him. The evidence based term “I think its a good thing about finding out how everybody laughs at me.” I thought about it a lot. Its because im so dumb and I dont even know when im doing something dumb. People think its funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.” (Keyes , 209). Charlie realizes that everybody laughs at him because he didn't realize when he was doing dumb stuff, he said that people found it funny when people with disabilities can’t do the things the same way a regular person can. For example, they found it funny when Charlie got drunk and fell, his co-workers got him drunk on purpose so that he can act like a fool. Charlie progresses in his knowledge of learning throughout the story because he realized that people laugh at people with