Short Story Of Charlie Gordon

Charlie Gordon wasn’t like the average person. He was a mentally challenged adult. People made fun of him and teased him and he laughed with them not even knowing what they were talking about. It was a very sad story but he still had lots of hope. All Charlie had ever wanted was to have friends. Doctors thought Charlie was special and he got the chance to get operated on so that he could be smart.

Charlie was better after the surgery because he understood more about the world. After the operation, he saw the truth about his friends, or who he thought were his friends. He realized that they really weren’t his friends because they laughed at him and teased him about being slow. After the operation, he proved to them that he could be smart. When he became smart, they feared him and the people at his job signed a petition for him to be fired. Instead of getting fired, he ended up quitting.
He loved that he was becoming smarter every second. When he was smart he finally understood the rorschach test, which was something he had been struggling with before the operation. “He said that the doctors were trying to trick him and maybe there was no picture there at all.” People didn’t realize that Charlie could one day get smart and it shocked them when he did. Nobody would have ever thought it would happen and there were very few people that believed in him, even the ones that did were kind of skeptical about the operation. In the book the woman at the factory said that he should be careful because things like that just didn’t happen and it was very