The story is told from the perspective of a Mr. Charlie Gordon, a gentleman of an IQ of 68. He goes to drastic measures to try to become in a higher intelligence, including a surgery to add intelligence proteins directly in his brain. His teacher, a Mrs. Alice Kinnian, is an intelligent yet sensitive woman who cares very much for Charlie's success. As I have finished the book, I can tell you, Charlie's surgery was more than a success, and, as you can tell from his progress reports, he learns to spell, then to punctuate, and finally starts off learning 20 languages. His intelligence goes up to an IQ of 180, greatly surpassing his teacher and the snobbish doctors that made his treatment possible. As one with lower intelligence, Charlie thought that the Doctors and Mrs. Kinnian were insurpassable geniuses, but s his intelligence increases, he realises that they are only normal people with the guise of top professors that they are desperately trying to maintain. All these characters make for a dynamic and quickly evolving story that delves into Charlie's childhood, where he was beaten by a mother desperate to prove that she was capable of producing more intelligent offspring. Because she tortured him all his childhood, when Charlie becomes more normal, he cannot sit with any women because his maternal figure beat him for that too. The best character to add would have been a character to play as Charlie's consistent friend through the series. The story is incredibly sad because there is no one who likes CHarlie after he becomes smart or after he loses that intelligence again.
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