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Why did his mom act so cruel towards Charlie even though she knew that he is mentally retarded.?
Evidence..
“’He’s normal! He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others.’ She was trying to scratch the teacher but Dad was holding her back. ‘He’ll go to college someday. He’ll be somebody.’ She kept screaming it, clawing at dad so he’d let her go. ‘He’ll go to college someday and he’ll be somebody.’ ”
At this point in the book his mother is in denial because she seems to not accept the fact that he is a mentally retarded person that needs help and that needs to go to special school for disabled children. His mother just wants Charlie to fit in like the rest of the kids and act normal. His mother thinks that being different is bad and that he will have a lot of problems in the future just because he is really different.
From the mother’s perspective she is right about the fact that he will be made fun of and ignored when he grows up but it is wrong that she thinks that it was Charlie’s choice that he is mentally retarded
Charlie’s miraculous transformation from mental disability to genius sets the stage for Keyes to address a number of themes and issues. Charlie’s lack of intelligence has made him a trusting and friendly man, as he assumes that the people in his life—his coworkers at Donner’s Bakery—are as well intentioned as he is. As his intelligence grows, however, Charlie gains perspective on his past and present. He realizes that people have often taken advantage of him and have been cruel to him for fun, knowing that he would not understand. Likewise, he realizes that when people have been kind to him, it usually has been out of an awareness that he is inferior. These realizations cause Charlie to grow suspicious of nearly everyone around him. Interestingly, the experimental operation elevates Charlie’s intelligence to such an extent that his new genius distances him from people as much as his disability does. Charlie eventually
Evidence..
“’He’s normal! He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others.’ She was trying to scratch the teacher but Dad was holding her back. ‘He’ll go to college someday. He’ll be somebody.’ She kept screaming it, clawing at dad so he’d let her go. ‘He’ll go to college someday and he’ll be somebody.’ ”
At this point in the book his mother is in denial because she seems to not accept the fact that he is a mentally retarded person that needs help and that needs to go to special school for disabled children. His mother just wants Charlie to fit in like the rest of the kids and act normal. His mother thinks that being different is bad and that he will have a lot of problems in the future just because he is really different.
From the mother’s perspective she is right about the fact that he will be made fun of and ignored when he grows up but it is wrong that she thinks that it was Charlie’s choice that he is mentally retarded
Charlie’s miraculous transformation from mental disability to genius sets the stage for Keyes to address a number of themes and issues. Charlie’s lack of intelligence has made him a trusting and friendly man, as he assumes that the people in his life—his coworkers at Donner’s Bakery—are as well intentioned as he is. As his intelligence grows, however, Charlie gains perspective on his past and present. He realizes that people have often taken advantage of him and have been cruel to him for fun, knowing that he would not understand. Likewise, he realizes that when people have been kind to him, it usually has been out of an awareness that he is inferior. These realizations cause Charlie to grow suspicious of nearly everyone around him. Interestingly, the experimental operation elevates Charlie’s intelligence to such an extent that his new genius distances him from people as much as his disability does. Charlie eventually