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Why Is Charlie Smarter In Flowers For Algernon
I fale almost every test that I take. I am not smart at all. Do you say that sometimes? Charlie, a character in the story called “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes thinks that he isn’t smart. He has a low IQ score. Charlie gets an operation done that makes him smarter. We are having an argument to see if he should or shouldn’t get the operation. We think he should get the operation.

The first reason why we think Charlie should get the operation is because his friends will not make fun of him anymore then when he wasn’t smart. Charlie’s friends made fun of him because he couldn’t spell and he wasn’t that good at grammar. If charlie gets the operation then they won’t make fun of him anymore. He may be smarter than his friends if he gets
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