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The beginning of the progress reports
Charlie began to write the reports after Dr Strauss had told him so he could keep track of Charlie’s improvement. -
Test
Charlie is tested to see his IQ before the surgery. The test that were done were a ink blot test, which Charlie felt he didn’t do right due to Burts reaction. -
The maze/ Meeting Algernon
Burt shows Charlie the maze and Charlie struggles to complete it and Burt says that it is very hard. He then shows Charlie Algernon. Charlie is surprised that Algernon is able to complete the maze. Charlie wishes to be as smart as Algernon and to be able to complete the maze. -
After the surgery
After the surgery Ms. Kinnian visits Charlie, he tells her that he doesn’t feel smarter yet and she responds telling him to be patient and that the it will take some time for him to become smarter. -
Charlie gets better at the mazes
After a while of racing Algernon at the maze, Charlie was finally able to beat Algernon at the maze. This shows that he is showing progress. -
The mixer
Charlie works the mixer because Oliver had quit his job and his coworkers told that only he could work the mixer because he had watched Oliver do it for so long -
Feelings for Alice
Charlie starts to notice how beautiful Alice is and he ends up going to a movie and dinner after with her. They talk and he ends up spilling water on her dress which makes him feel dumb for taking her. -
Flashbacks
Charlie began to have flashbacks of his childhood and he is troubled about what they are and why they keep happening -
Realizing Nemur
Charlie begins to realize how professor Nemur is treating him as only an experiment and not treating him as a human being. Charlie -
Charlies sister
Charlie has another flashback of his sister, Norma, coming home after getting an A on her test. As Norma is about to tell her parents about the grade, Charlie says the grade on the test. Norma is upset but then asks about getting the dog she was promised. Charlie then ask if he could help take care of it causing Norma to get mad at him because she wanted the dog all to herself. She yelled at him and called him dumb. He wishes that this event had never happened. -
Escape
Charlie decided to take Algernon and runaway from the laboratory because he felt that no one was treating him as a human being, but more as a laboratory specimen. -
Visiting his mother
Charlie decided after a while to go and visit his mother. -
Charlie and Norma
Upon visiting his mother, Charlie was able to see Norma and they spoke about their childhood. Norma apologized to Charlie about why she was so mean to him. -
Leaving the laboratory
Charlie was fed up. He decided that he didn’t wanted to be treated how he was being treated anymore. He decides to leave and cut everyone out of his life. He feels that no one understands what he is going through. -
Charlie is forgetting
Charlie is starting to forget everything about who he is. He calls it the “Algernon-Gordon effect” because he is returning back to his old self. -
The end
Charlie decides to stop writing the progress reports because he is forgetting to much and is back to the way he used to be. He lays in bed all day for a while then decides to go back to the school. He then decides to stop writing and say goodbye to everyone.