this novel is about a retarded man, charlie gordon who had undergone a newly-developed experiment that could increase a person`s I.Qs. the experiment succeed and charlie became a normal person. he began to realise the awful reality around him- that people around him was making fun of him all this time and he didn`t even realise it. he also started to recall his past memories and started to understand it all. it was sad when his mother desperately tried to taught him to be normal, to learn like other childs do but to no avail. he was eventually sent away to a nursing home... there`s other effects of the experiment, he not only became normal but his i.q also increase, making him to be super genius... and when the experimental rat, algernon which had undergone the same experiment started to experience mind deterioration, charlie was forced to do the research about the experiment and he discovered the terrible effects of the experiment- that his mind will start to deteriorate soon...
this novel is heartbreaking on the basis of how the society treated the mentally ill people and how a man who had been living in the dark for so long found how he had been treated all this time only to discover that the condition is temporary and he`ll be in the darkness once again soon...his novel is told through a series of report written by charlie gordon...
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