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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon is a book about a mentally challenged man who is thirty seven years old, named Charlie Gordon.Charlie works at factory (Donnegan's Plastic Box Company)where his coworkers make fun of him, but he is unable to comprehend that he is the center of they mockery.Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss give him a chance to have an operation to triple his IQ level which was at sixty eight and he is encouraged by his teacher, Miss Kinnian, to have the operation done.Miss Kinnian teaches at a school for mentally challenged adults.He is told to keep progress reports by Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur so they can see how the operation is working.The story is told by Charlie's progress reports. Along the way he is told to race a white mouse named Algernon in a maze.Algernon had the same op...more >>

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