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Flowers for Algernon: Progress Report 17

Flowers for Algernon: Progress Report 17. What is Charlie’s position like at this point in the novel?. He is regressing He is feeling suicidal . 1a. Why does he feel this way? Cite two examples. He can no longer read what he wrote He can no longer speak various languages.

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Flowers for Algernon: Progress Report 17

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  1. Flowers for Algernon: Progress Report 17

  2. What is Charlie’s position like at this point in the novel? • He is regressing • He is feeling suicidal

  3. 1a. Why does he feel this way? Cite two examples. • He can no longer read what he wrote • He can no longer speak various languages

  4. What characterizes Charlie’s strange therapy session? • He sees a light at the end of a tunnel which symbolizes the death of his smart self

  5. What is Charlie afraid of? • He is afraid of becoming slow again

  6. Why is Charlie getting frustrated with the progress reports? • He can no longer read or write them

  7. What happens when Charlie takes the Rorschach Test? • He knows he is supposed to see something but he cannot

  8. 5a. How is his frustration now different than how it was when he was smart? • He knows that he is supposed to see something where as before he didn’t even know there was something

  9. What does Charlie remember about reading with his mother? • Rose got frustrated with Charlie when he couldn’t read

  10. How does Charlie respond to Alice being in his apartment? • He is embarrassed • He wants her to leave

  11. 7a. How does Charlie respond differently to alice kissing him? • Charlie lets Alice kiss him

  12. 7b. Why does Charlie respond differently to Alice kissing him? • He is regressing so young Charlie does not come out • He is able to make love to Alice

  13. What is happening to Charlie’s memory? Cite two examples. • He can’t pay attention • When he wakes up he doesn’t remember where he is

  14. 8a. What does Charlie think about the Algernon-Gordon Effect? • He cannot believe that he wrote it

  15. What happens to Alice? • Charlie makes her leave

  16. 9a. Why does Charlie treat Alice as he does? • He does not want her to see him regress

  17. Give one example of punctuation regression that happens in the November 2nd progress report. • No apostrophes

  18. Who is Mrs. Mooney? • She is Charlie’s landlady

  19. 11a. Why is she worried about Charlie? • Charlie has not gotten out of bed in weeks and she thinks he is sick

  20. What happens when Charlie asks for his job back? • Mr. Donner gives Charlie his job back

  21. 12a. What do the guys at the bakery do to Charlie? • They defend him against another co-worker who is making fun of him

  22. What is Charlie’s final request? • He asks that flowers are put on Algernon’s grave

  23. THE BIG QUESTION: Is Charlie’s truth exactly the same as it was in the beginning? • It is probably a little different because he has had different experiences

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