FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

PROGRESS REPORT 12

BY: NOORASMAD MAT RIPIN NUR AQILLAH MAKHTAR

CHARACTERS
Prof Nemur Prof Strauss Charlie Gordon

Alice Kinnian
Algernon Norma Matt and Rose

 Mrs. Baffin history teacher Norma`s friends Mike Dorni handicapped man, wheelchair, Charlie

former classmate

 Lester Braun smartest in the group, first-row

first- seat, earn money by waxing the floors.

Bernice pretty blonde with empty eyes

 Francine given birth to 3 children when 18 years

old, not pretty

A pregnant lady live in Newport News, Virginia,

wear make-up, attractive with straight hair, married with a sailor who was at sea now
Gary a sailor, the pregnant ladys husband, hot-

tempered

JUNE 5
The International Psychological Convention in

Chicago is only one week away. Professor Nemur arrogantly treats Charlie as a mere scientific exhibit of his own creation. Charlie writes that his relationship with Nemur is growing 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.

 The relationship between Charlie and Alice remains

platonic. 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 of the pane, watching him.[pg81,pr3] Charlie vividly recalls the day his sister Norma turned against him completely.(flashback)

 The Gordons had promised Norma a dog if she

brought home good grades from school. Norma received an "A, but Charlie spoiled Norma's good news by telling it first. Norma's ensuing temper tantrum and cruelty towards Charlie . Charlie had offered to help take care of the dog, but Norma had demanded that the dog be hers alone.[pg83] Then, angered their father, consequently refused to buy her a dog.

 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.

June 6
Charlie visits Alice at the Beekman Center for

Retarded Adults and sees many of the mentally disabled people with whom he had once attended the school. Alice is upset that Charlie has come into the classroom 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.

 Alice reveals that Charlie's genius makes her feel

self-conscious and inferior. As his intelligence has increased, his affection for Alice has diminished. He felt that he was terrified Alice.[pg87]

June 8
Depressed, Charlie wanders through Central Park

and meets a promiscuous woman on a park bench. Her sexual advances excite Charlie. Charlie almost goes home with the woman, until she reveals that she is pregnant.[pg91,pr3] Charlie flashes back to an image of his pregnant mother with his sister.[pg92,pr1] Remembering how the mother looked before she gave birth to his sister is frightening.

 Charlie grabs her shoulder. She screams, and a group

of 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 or for what.

SETTING

The International Psychological Convention at

Chicago Beekman Center for Retarded Adults. The Corner of Marks Street - Charlie waits her sister from school. The Kitchen Charlie, Norma and their parents are arguing about a dog.

 Norma`s room told her friends a lie Twenty-third Street, east of Fifth Avenue an old

schoolhouse (center for experimental education) Central Park meets a woman Mansion Hotel

LITERACY DEVICES
Personifications

Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh-the air becomes charged with laughter until I can`t stand it-and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows

 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)