Flowers for Algernon

6. Linguistic: Imagine you were Charlie Gordon and had the choice of running risk of becoming super smart for two years but ultimately going back to square one versus living your present life as it is, write a letter to one of the scientists explaining your decision. It should be no less than 400 words.


Don't mind my spelling and grammar mistakes as i am writing this in the point of view of Charlie Gordon, the mentally challenged.

Dear Dr Strauss,

My name is Charlie Gordon and I am 34.If you reemeember, I am one of the peple who have voluunterred to take some tests to see if I can go through a experemeental operiation to become smarter. I want to be smart and not dumb and I really hope you use me. I don't like tests and I'm very scaird of them. I faled many tests when young even with my rabits foot. Someone said I hav an IQ of 68. I don't know if this is good or bad. I think this must be good, becouse 68 is my favuorite nunber. I really want to be smart so that I will have many many freinds and everboody will like me.

I don't care if this operiation that will make me super smart only lasts for 2 years. I want to know the feeling of being smart. I wants to tell people that I was once as smart as them.
I want to know many many things,like why people alweys use my name in jokes and why they alweys laugh when my name is said. I don't care if it hurts, I just want to show Ms Kinnian that her studant hav become smart. I want her to be proud of me.

Now nobody really likes me except for my best frends Joe Carp and Frank Reilly.They are the only ones who help me and laugh with me evarytime. I think people don't like me becouse I 'm not as smart as they. If i go through this operetion, maybe they won't stay away from me anymore. Maybe they will acept me as a normel person and really like me.

Even if this is only tempirery and herts, I still want to go through this operetion to become smart. I want to take the chance of being smart permaently. I will take any kind of test you give me as long as I can be smarter. I don't care what happens, I just want to be smart for at laest 1 day to feel how is it like.

Please.Please. I raelly want to be smart.I will do whatever it takes to become smart so please let me take the operation. I promise you will not regrat giving me this chance and i will do my best to be smart and no more dumb.

Yours sincerely,
Charlie Gordon