This scene takes place 2 months after the experimental operation, relating to the enhancement of human intelligence, on Charlie. After having an I.Q of 68, the Charlie’s progress in becoming a genius is relatively slow at first because he does not see the change instantaneously. However, the progress can be seen through Charlie’s spelling in his ‘progris riports’ and his ability to recall and create memories. Previously, his sister, Norma, ‘got an A in [her] history test’ where she had been promised a dog if she received good marks. Norma was denied in getting a dog because Charlie was not allowed to get a dog and Norma wanted this dog ‘to be [her] dog. Only [her] dog.’ This passage is a significant example of one of Charlie’s memories within …show more content…
This passage clearly represents one of the reasons he wanted people to like him. Charlie’s own sister hated him because Norma was constantly teased for being the ‘moron’s sister’ which lead to her claiming that ‘he is not [her] real brother.’ At a pointing during the passage, Norma had even shown envy towards Charlie – the only time within this novel that anyone perceives Charlie’s mental disability as an advantage. Although Norma seems to be acting irrationally, she genuinely feels jealousy for Charlie because she believes that Charlie is treated better – ‘fussed over [him] all the time,’ ‘never spanked him from not doing [his] homework right’ and ‘skipped classes most of the time.’ Despite this, Charlie feels he is hardly in an enviable position as he was born with this disability and cannot help but make his sister miserable. ‘[He] only wanted her to play games with [him] the way [they] used to.’ As a result, this passage is a clear representation Charlie longing to be smarter so he is ‘going to have lots frends’ wherever he goes and is able to play ‘Monopoly or checkers’ with his …show more content…
As Norma begins shrieking what is supposed to be a cruel joke to their parents, ‘I'm forgetting everything... I'm forgetting... I don't remember anything I learned anymore!’ Charlie’s temporary salvation of being a genius can be described the ‘Algernon-Gordon Effect’ where ‘artificially-induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of increase.’ Towards the end of the novel, Charlie’s deterioration is progressing as he is ‘forgetting things he learned recently’, his ‘motor activity [is] impaired’ and the way he expresses his writing has changed. Charlie is ‘forgetting’ and at the very end of the book he ‘[doesn’t remember anything [he] learned anymore.’ On his inevitable path back to being Charlie Gordon with an I.Q of 68, he rereads his paper on the ‘Algernon-Gordon Effect’ and although he knows he wrote it, ‘he keep[s] feeling it was written by someone else’ as it is barely understandable. Finally, Charlie reverts back into his previous writing style, riddled with grammatical errors, signalling that Charlie cannot recollect much of what he had learned. He does not ‘no why [he is] dum agen or what [he] did rong’ but he is still able to wish that he ‘coud be smart agen rite