Book report 12

Hello everyone!

I would like to tell you about Charlie’s progress report of September 27 to October 2.

 

Charlie went to see Rose who is his mother. But she was denying to him. Because of old age, she doesn’t remember much. After a while, Norma who is his sister came home. Charlie was surprised because Norma said she is glad to see him. It surprised me, too. He was confused. He had not expected a greeting like this from Norma. He had never occurred to him that all these years alone with his mother might change her. And yet it was inevitable. She was no longer the spoiled brat of his memories. She had grown up, had become warm and sympathetic and affectionate.

 

I feel like a little happy because Charlie and Norma don’t hate each other :)

Book report 11

Good afternoon everyone.

Now, I would like to tell you Charlie's progress report of August 26 to September.

Charlie wrote a letter to professor Nemor. He completed his experiments and wrote a report entitled: “The Algernon-Gordon Effect: A Study of structure and Function of Increased Intelligence”. Finally, he reached a conclusion that proved may be described most simply in the following terms:

 

"Artifically-Induced Intelligence deteruirates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase."

In Japanese: 人為的に誘発された知能は、その増大量に比例する速度で低下する。

 

 

He have checked and rechecked his date a dozen times in hope of finding an error, but he is sorry to say the results must stand.

  

September 15, Algernon died. He was on his side, stretched out in the corner of his cage. As is he were running in his sleep.

From Charlie’s progress report,

“It’s frightening to think that the same thing might be happening to me right now. Seeing it happen to Algernon makes it real. For the first time, I’m afraid of the future.

I put Algernon’s body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn’t going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It’s foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.”

 

 

Book report 10

Good afternoon everyone.

Now, I would like to tell you Charlie's progress report of July 31 to August 25.

 

At August 11,　Charlie went to Mrs.Nemur’s cocktail party. It was in honor of the two men on the board of the Welberg Foundation who had been instrumental in getting her husband the grant. However at the party Charlie and Nemur got fight because Charlie got drunk again.

 

After he got calm down, he noticed and said,

“I was seeing myself as I really had become: Nemur had said it. I was an arrogant, self-centered bastard. Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. For one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie’s eyes―looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.”

 

I think this is Charlie’s big advance of his mental.

Book report 9

Hi, everyone :)
I'll tell you about a progress report of Charlie that is July 14 to July 30 which is 20 pages. In these pages, Charlie found a change of Algernon for the worse. However Charlie took things coolly.


He said,

"What eludes me is the reason for his regressionーis it a special case? An isolated reaction? Or is these some general principle of failure basic to the whole procedure? I've got to work out the rule. 

If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

That's enough."

I really impressed in his words.

Book report 8

Hello, everyone :)

I'll write about Charlie's progress report of June24 to July 13 which is 25 pages.

He decided an apartment which he could live with Algernon. Next to their room, there is a woman named Fay. Charlie and Fay became very closed friend. One day, they drunk alcohol like water. Then Charlie get drunk. The next day, Charlie didn't remember anything, so he asked Fay what did he do yesterday.

Fay answered,

"I've seen guys get happy, or sad, or sleepy, or sexy, but I never saw anyone act the way you did. It's a good thing you don't drink often."

"Not what I expected. No sex, or anything lie that. But you were phenomenal. What an act! The weirdest. You'd be great on stage. You'd wow them at the place. You went all confused and silly. You know, as if a grown man starts acting like a kid. Talking about how you wanted to go to school and learn to read and write so you could be smart like everyone else. Crazy stuff like that. You were a different personーlike they do with method-actingーand you kept saying you couldn't play with me because your mother would take away your peanuts and put you in a cage."

Book report 7

Hello everyone:)

I read Charlie's progress report of June 15 to June 23 which is 32 pages. Between these days, Charlie found his father Matt. Matt had opened a barbershop somewhere in the Bronx. But Charlie was confused to tell him about hisself. I will write some Charlie's word from his progress report.


How could I tell him? What was I supposed to say? Here, look at me, I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

Book report 6

Hi, everyone!　How is your weekend?

This week I read 32 pages which mean June 10 to June 14 in Charlie’s progress report.

Charlie and Algernon are on a Strato-jet take off to Chicago. They have to attend a conference of international psychology. At first, Charlie was in awe at the picture of an international convention of scientists and scholars, gathered for an exchange of ideas. He thought here was where it all really happened. Here it would be different from the sterile college discussions, because there were the men on the highest levels of psychological research and education, the scientists who wrote the books and delivered the lectures the authorities people quoted.

At the presentation, Professor Nemer said, “We who have worked on this project at Beekman University have the satisfaction of knowing we have taken of nature’s mistakes and by our new techniques created a superior human being. When Charlie came to us he was outside of society, alone in a great city without the mental equipment to live a normal life. No past, no contact with the present, no hope for the future. It might be said that Charlie Gordon did not really exist before this experiment….”

That made Charlie gets shock and angry. He wants to shout at him that “I’m a human being, a person―ith parents and memories and a history―and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!”

Then he decided to get out of there with Algernon.