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Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human subject for the surgery, and it touches on ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.
Charles Gordon (born 28 October 1951, Glasgow) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Cathcart from 2005 to 2011 . Political career. Born in Glasgow, Gordon was educated at St Mungo's Academy in the East End of the city.
Charley Gordon has been active professionally for over thirty years, performing, recording, and composing music in New York City and worldwide.
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Charly Gordon is an intellectually disabled man who lives in Boston. He has a desire to learn and has attended night school for two years, taking a class taught by Alice Kinnian. He learns to read and write, though his spelling and penmanship are poor and he is unable to spell his own name.
- Flowers For Algernon is an epistolary novel. Charlie’s story is told through progress reports he writes at the request of the scientific research team.
- The title Flowers For Algernon refers to a mouse. Algernon is a white mouse who underwent the experimental brain surgery before Charlie joined the human trial.
- Daniel Keyes had a variety of jobs before becoming a novelist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 9, 1927, Daniel Keyes always valued education, hard work, and literature.
- Daniel Keyes found inspiration for Charlie in his work. Charlie Gordon isn't based on a specific person or an existing experiment, but the character’s resolute drive to become smarter was inspired by one of Keyes’s students.
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army.
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