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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNONPROGRESS REPORT 12

BY: NOORASMAD MAT RIPIN

NUR AQILLAH MAKHTAR

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CHARACTERS

Prof Nemur

Prof Strauss

Charlie Gordon

Alice Kinnian Algernon

Norma

Matt and Rose

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Mrs. Baffin history teacher

Norma`s friends

Mike Dorni handicapped man, wheelchair, Charlieformer classmate

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Lester Braun smartest in the group, first-row

first- seat, earn money by waxing the

floors.

Bernice pretty blonde with empty eyes

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Francine given birth to 3 children when 18 yearsold, not pretty

A pregnant lady live in Newport News, Virginia,wear make-up, attractive with straight hair, marriedwith a sailor who was at sea now

Garya sailor, the pregnant ladys husband, hot-tempered

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JUNE 5

The International Psychological Convention inChicago is only one week away.

Professor Nemur arrogantly treats Charlie as a merescientific exhibit of his own creation.

Charlie writes that his relationship with Nemur isgrowing increasingly strained.

Nemur is upset that Charlie has fallen behind on

writing his progress reports-two weeks. Strauss suggests that Charlie learn to type, so he

does.

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The relationship between Charlie and Alice remainsplatonic.

Charlie has nightmares for three nights after his

panic in Alice's apartment. He has a recurring image of a bakery window and of

his former mentally retarded self on the other side ofthe pane, watching him.[pg81,pr3]

Charlie vividly recalls the day his sister Normaturned against him completely.(flashback)

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The Gordons had promised Norma a dog if shebrought home good grades from school.

Norma received an "A, but Charlie spoiled Norma'sgood news by telling it first.

Norma's ensuing temper tantrum and crueltytowards Charlie .

Charlie had offered to help take care of the dog, butNorma had demanded that the dog be hersalone.[pg83]

Then, angered their father, consequently refused tobuy her a dog.

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Norma resentfully threatened to forget everything

she knew and be a dummy like Charlie.[pg83,pr9]

Norma really hates Charlie. She even didn`t want to

admit that he is her brother. Charlie painfully recalls how Norma rejected him

from that day on.

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June 6

Charlie visits Alice at the Beekman Center forRetarded Adults and sees many of the mentallydisabled people with whom he had once attended theschool.

Alice is upset that Charlie has come into theclassroom and tells him that he is no longer the

warm, open person she once knew, that he has

grown cold and aggressive. Charlie insists that he has merely learned to defend

himself.

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Alice reveals that Charlie's genius makes her feelself-conscious and inferior.

As his intelligence has increased, his affection for

Alice has diminished. He felt that he was terrified Alice.[pg87]

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June 8

Depressed, Charlie wanders through Central Parkand meets a promiscuous woman on a park bench.

Her sexual advances excite Charlie.

Charlie almost goes home with the woman, until shereveals that she is pregnant.[pg91,pr3]

Charlie flashes back to an image of his pregnantmother with his sister.[pg92,pr1]

Remembering how the mother looked before shegave birth to his sister is frightening.

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Charlie grabs her shoulder. She screams, and a groupof people runs toward them.

Charlie runs away, and he hears the woman tell the

group that he tried to attack her.[pg92] Part of Charlie longs to be caught and beaten. He

wants to be punished, though he cannot say why orfor what.

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SETTING

The International Psychological Convention atChicago

Beekman Center for Retarded Adults. The Corner of Marks Street - Charlie waits her sister

from school.

The Kitchen Charlie, Norma and their parents arearguing about a dog.

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Norma`s room told her friends a lie

Twenty-third Street, east of Fifth Avenue an oldschoolhouse (center for experimental education)

Central Park meets a woman Mansion Hotel

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LITERACY DEVICES

Personifications

Through the window, the bride and groom on thewedding cake point at me andlaugh-the air

becomes charged with laughter until I can`t standit-and the two cupids wave theirflaming arrows

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Flashback

He has been waiting for his sister to come from

school, and when he sees (pg 81)

Illusion

I see the bakery window .reach out and touch it

cold and vibrating, and the glass.. (pg 81)