Flowers For Algernon

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but when he starts becoming
smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him
makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him.
She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t.
The people at the bakery employed the retarded Charlie for years.
While working there, they stood up for him sometimes, and sometimes
played cruel jokes on him.
The doctors are overconfident and pretend to know what they are
doing when they do the operation. They are dealing with stuff they
don’t understand and havn't researched on humans, or followed through
with their research on the test animals.
In the flashbacks of Charlie’s family his mother was very
protective of her daughter, and after her daughter was born she didn’t
pay much attention to Charlie unless she was trying to make him
“normal”. His sister was bratty and spoiled. His dad lived in his wife's
shadow, under her rule until the day he left. He thought ...

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