"I want to be smart."(Keyes 1).
-Main part of the story charlie feels like his life would be better if he
was smart like everyone else.
"And she said mabey they got no rite to make me smart because if god wantid me to be smart he would have made me born that way."(Keyes 16).
-This is Charlie’s first memory after the surgery. The nurse tells him this.
“The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie."(Keyes 47).
-Dr. Strauss says this to Charlie warning about all the changes he is about to encounter
“You're fooling yourself, Rose It's not fair to us or to him Pretending he's normal Driving him as if he were an animal that could learn to do tricks.'"(Keyes 73).
-Charlie remembers this conversation between his mother and father. Realizing his mother despised him for not being like other children.
"I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up."(Keyes 82).
-Charlie makes this statement because the first half of his life when he was mentally retarded he could not remember anything.
"How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the
same mistake as others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh
because they don't understand there are human feelings involved He doesn't
realize that I was a person before I came here."(Keyes 145).
-Charlie says this because professor Nemur is always says he “created” Charlie and wasn’t a human being before he had the surgery and this would always set Charlie off.
“We who have worked on this project at Beekman University have the
satisfaction of knowing we have taken one of nature's mistakes and by our new
techniques created a superior human being.”(Keyes 161).
-Professor Nemur delivers this remark during his presentation at the international psychology conference.
"Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."(keyes 199).
-Charlie says this after seeing people taunt a young mentally challenged boy in a diner
“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”(Keyes 249).
-Charlie argues this during a heated argument with Professor Nemur.
"Why am I always looking at life through a window?"(Keyes 298).
-Charlie ponders this question as his mental abilities are beginning to regress
"...all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I fergetb alot."(Keyes 3).
-This is said to show Charlie mental compactly at the beginning of the book.
"I dint know mice were so smart." (Keyes 6).
-Charlie says this when he first see’s Algernon running the maze.
"If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and youever get lonley by yourself all the time."(Keyes 11).
-I feel like this is foreshadowing later in the book when Charlie realizes he had more friends when he was mentally retarded.
"ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE."(Keyes 177).
-This is showing how much Charlie’s intelligence has progressed
-Main part of the story charlie feels like his life would be better if he
was smart like everyone else.
"And she said mabey they got no rite to make me smart because if god wantid me to be smart he would have made me born that way."(Keyes 16).
-This is Charlie’s first memory after the surgery. The nurse tells him this.
“The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie."(Keyes 47).
-Dr. Strauss says this to Charlie warning about all the changes he is about to encounter
“You're fooling yourself, Rose It's not fair to us or to him Pretending he's normal Driving him as if he were an animal that could learn to do tricks.'"(Keyes 73).
-Charlie remembers this conversation between his mother and father. Realizing his mother despised him for not being like other children.
"I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up."(Keyes 82).
-Charlie makes this statement because the first half of his life when he was mentally retarded he could not remember anything.
"How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the
same mistake as others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh
because they don't understand there are human feelings involved He doesn't
realize that I was a person before I came here."(Keyes 145).
-Charlie says this because professor Nemur is always says he “created” Charlie and wasn’t a human being before he had the surgery and this would always set Charlie off.
“We who have worked on this project at Beekman University have the
satisfaction of knowing we have taken one of nature's mistakes and by our new
techniques created a superior human being.”(Keyes 161).
-Professor Nemur delivers this remark during his presentation at the international psychology conference.
"Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."(keyes 199).
-Charlie says this after seeing people taunt a young mentally challenged boy in a diner
“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”(Keyes 249).
-Charlie argues this during a heated argument with Professor Nemur.
"Why am I always looking at life through a window?"(Keyes 298).
-Charlie ponders this question as his mental abilities are beginning to regress
"...all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I fergetb alot."(Keyes 3).
-This is said to show Charlie mental compactly at the beginning of the book.
"I dint know mice were so smart." (Keyes 6).
-Charlie says this when he first see’s Algernon running the maze.
"If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and youever get lonley by yourself all the time."(Keyes 11).
-I feel like this is foreshadowing later in the book when Charlie realizes he had more friends when he was mentally retarded.
"ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE."(Keyes 177).
-This is showing how much Charlie’s intelligence has progressed