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.