Flowers for Algernon
Write examples of how Charlie is showing Dr. Nemur disrespect. How is this showing Charlie’s “teenage years”? (Progress Report 12)
Progress Report 12
Progress Report 12
Charlie and Nemur have a strained relationship leading up to the International Psychological Convention in Chicago. Nemur continues to address Charlie as a lab specimen, but Charlie knows that he was a human being even before the operation. He remembers that his parents treated the family differently after Norma was born, and how Norma abused him as well. Charlie decides to visit Alice as class is finishing at the Beekman School for Retarded Adults, and visit the facility as an unenrolled student. As he and Alice talk, he realizes that he has far exceeded her in intelligence and no longer loves her, although he would love to be. She is also upset that his intellect makes her feel inferior. They part ways. Charlie takes to walking around at night to search for himself. He meets a woman in Central Park with whom he nearly has a one-night stand. She, at the last moment, however, reveals that she is pregnant. When Charlie is disgusted with her desire to have sex while she is pregnant, she screams that he tried to rape her. Charlie runs and hides until nearby pursuers have gone.