Progress Report Summaries: Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for algernon- CHAPTER SUMMARIES
Progress report 1
-Dr Strauss tells him (Charlie Gordon) to write down what he remembers from now on
-Works in Donner’s bakery, 32 years old
-Learns 3 times a week at the Beekmin College for retarded adults
-Charlie talks about being tested by Dr Strauss to see if they can make him smart
Progress report 2
-Charlie has a test in the psych department that includes looking at cards with ink blots on them and is told to say what he sees on the cards with Burt -Burt gets frustrated when Charlie doesn’t respond well to the test and can’t picture any images on the cards and his only response is that he sees an ink blot
Progress report 3
-Miss Kinnian tells Dr Strauss that Charlie is the best pupil in her school and that he wants to be smart more than anyone there
-Prof Nemur and Dr Strauss explain to Charlie that they don’t know how good the experiment is going to work because he is the first human recipient
-Charlie says he hasn’t seen his family in a long time and doesn’t even know if they’re still alive
-Writing the progress reports is hard and tiring for him and he loses sleep over it
Progress report 4
-Charlie undergoes a thematic apperception test where he has to make up stories about the people he sees in the pictures
-When the lady explains to Charlie that the two tests he underwent are for building personality. When he doesn’t get the concept the lady takes the pictures away and is angry towards him
-Burt Selden takes Charlie to the psychology laboratory on the 4th floor in the Beekman University where he starts by playing puzzles and games
-When faced with a paper maze, Charlie can’t figure out how to trace a line with his pencil from start to finish without crossing the lines that are there already
-On the 5th floor Burt tries to clarify the maze by bringing Charlie to an animal experimental laboratory
-He brings out a mouse named Alergnon and makes him go through a box maze like the one on
Progress report 1
-Dr Strauss tells him (Charlie Gordon) to write down what he remembers from now on
-Works in Donner’s bakery, 32 years old
-Learns 3 times a week at the Beekmin College for retarded adults
-Charlie talks about being tested by Dr Strauss to see if they can make him smart
Progress report 2
-Charlie has a test in the psych department that includes looking at cards with ink blots on them and is told to say what he sees on the cards with Burt -Burt gets frustrated when Charlie doesn’t respond well to the test and can’t picture any images on the cards and his only response is that he sees an ink blot
Progress report 3
-Miss Kinnian tells Dr Strauss that Charlie is the best pupil in her school and that he wants to be smart more than anyone there
-Prof Nemur and Dr Strauss explain to Charlie that they don’t know how good the experiment is going to work because he is the first human recipient
-Charlie says he hasn’t seen his family in a long time and doesn’t even know if they’re still alive
-Writing the progress reports is hard and tiring for him and he loses sleep over it
Progress report 4
-Charlie undergoes a thematic apperception test where he has to make up stories about the people he sees in the pictures
-When the lady explains to Charlie that the two tests he underwent are for building personality. When he doesn’t get the concept the lady takes the pictures away and is angry towards him
-Burt Selden takes Charlie to the psychology laboratory on the 4th floor in the Beekman University where he starts by playing puzzles and games
-When faced with a paper maze, Charlie can’t figure out how to trace a line with his pencil from start to finish without crossing the lines that are there already
-On the 5th floor Burt tries to clarify the maze by bringing Charlie to an animal experimental laboratory
-He brings out a mouse named Alergnon and makes him go through a box maze like the one on