Charlie Gordon
By: Amber Pozzi
Charlie Before the Operation
One character trait he has is Hard- Working. “They said Mrs. Kinnian told that I was her bestest people in the adult nite school becuz I tried the hardst and I relly wanted to lern.” (Keyes 35.) This quote supports the character trait because it shows that he is very hard-working because he tried the hardest.
Charlie After The Operation
Charlie changed after the operation by becoming really smart and realizing more things. “ I was shocked to learn that the only ancient languages he could read were Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and that he knows almost nothing of mathematics beyond the elementary levels of the calculus of variations.” (Keyes 53). It supports the character trait above by showing that he was surprised about how Dr. Strauss only knew 3 other languages so it shows that he’s really smart.
Charlie is a dynamic.
Charlie became dumb and then he became smart and then he became dumb again, so he changed throughout the story. He changed by getting an operation to make him from being dumb to being smart. He also changed because he was tired of being dumb and he wanted to be smart. Charlie is trying to show people to not change if it’s what other people want you to do and only change if you want to.