Saturday, August 21, 2010

What does it mean "to pull a Charlie Gordon"?

   In the story "Flowers for Algernon" Charlie Gordon, has a mental problem. He is not able to be creative, and  learn like other students at his night school for adults. He thinks that being creative is to lie about people he does not know. Charlie's I.Q. is 68, is pretty dumb for an average adult. Charlie has been chosen to have a surgical operation, which will make him smart.

    Some of Charlie's friends are Joe Carp and Frank Reilly. Before the operation, Joe and Frank would say " to pull a Charlie Gordon", and laugh afterwards. But Charlie would also laugh, because he did not know what it meant.

   Tonight when Charlie went drinking with Frank, Joe, and some other girls at work. Joe told Charlie to dance with Ellen, and she'll show you some dance steps. But Charlie kept tripping and falling when he was dancing. Charlie started to blush. He's friends thought, he was interested in Ellen. I think he was blushing because he was falling a lot. So At that point he understood when he's friends meant they said " to pull a Charlie Gordon "

   I think "to pull a Charlie Gordon" is when Charlie's friends do something stupid. He's Friends only like him for his stupidity, which is mean. But after the operation, Charlie was not an idiot any more, so he's friends did not like him anymore, because he understood them when why were making fun of him.

4 comments:

  1. Great Job Kristine! You answered the question with thought and support.

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  2. It's a great answer it answered the question correctly without getting out of the subject and it's show in structure <3 great job Kris..BFFL

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  3. awesomeee krissy! :) i like your answer!

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  4. Thumb upppppppp :-bd.

    Your answer has a lot of details and what's the background of the story. :))

    At first I chose this question but I didn't have much to explain so i switch to #8.

    :-bd Thumb upppp. :))

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