Charlie Gordon's 'Flowers For Algernon'

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Don’t you want to know what flowers for algernon means. In the story flowers for algernon Charlie Gordon, had a disability and an i.q of 68. But then he got a special surgery. That can increase his intelligence to 204. It was called the artificial intelligence surgery. It gave him so much opportunities. After the surgery charlie had bad flashbacks that he doesn't want. ”all i remember was my dad drunk and arguing with mom about money”. Charlie had flashbacks to memories to his childhood about his dad. “ all i remember was my dad drunk and arguing with mom about money”.the flashbacks were not good because it makes charlie regress and not be happy. The surgery charlie got brong flashbacks bad memories.
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