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Novel study- Flowers For Algernon ( Progress Reports 1-17)
Progress reports 1-8
Vocabulary:
Permanent- Is something that is everlasting. Something that is meant to last forever.
Complicated- Means something hard/confusing to explain.
Marooned- Leave someone trapped and isolated in an inaccessible place.
Apprentice- A person who is learning something from a skilled employee, for a short period of time for low wages
Conscious- When the brain is awake it's called being conscious

In what form has the novel been written?
The novel, Flowers For Algernon, has been written in first person limited. The novel is written in charlie's point of view. He uses the word I, meaning he is talking about himself. It's limited because the novel talks about only his feelings and not others. His feelings
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When Charlie had to take the Thematic Apperception test he had to make up stories about pictures she showed him. He refused to make up stories because he said that would be lying and he doesn't lie anymore. The women got very angry with him when she told him that both the Rorschach test and this one was to get personality. He laughed and said how can you get that thing from cards that somebody spilled ink on and photos of people you don't even know. Then she took the pictures away and made him draw some instead. Who was Algernon? How does Charlie meet Algernon?
Algernon is a mouse that Charlie meets when doing his third test. Algernon is the first animal that the operation succeeds on. But of course, there were animals before Algernon that did the test too. He is intelligent enough to beat Charlie ten times in a game of mazes. Charlie watched Algernon do the maze and learned from him.
With regards to the operation, what was Professor Nemur worried about?
Professor Nemur was worried about Charles I-Q getting too high from his that was too low and that Charlie would get sick from it.
Why did Charlie want to be

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