Friday, 20 August 2010

To pull a charlie gordon

In the story "Flowers for Algernon", Charlie Gordon was a 37-year-old-man who was not very intelligent. He had an IQ of 68, which was low for an ordinary person. He was also, not very surprising, trickable and doesn't know when people were making fun of him. Like for examble, on page 60, Amos Borg shouted at an office boy, Ernie, for losing a package. He scolded him and yelled that if he wanted to be a Charlie Gordon, which referred as Charlie, a stupid, clumsy and not aware of the things people say around him. So that's kind of like an insult if other people did stuff like Ernie. Therefore, when people say, "Do you want to be a Charlie Gordon?" meaning that you do not want to be Charlie. So generally, to pull a Charlie Gordon, like on page 66 and also in my opinion, means if you make a fool of yourself, other people would refer you to being the same person as Charlie Gordon since in the story, Charlie was a fool, not very smart.

5 comments:

  1. I like it a lot! I think it's very cool how you take examples from the story :D Love it! Biscuits and cookies!!!

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  2. I have the same idea as you Antonia. So ye.

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  3. Great job Antonia. Very good job finding examples from the text.

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  4. Lucky stole my Idea so you are exactly right. :">

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  5. thanks mr. patrick, and lucky and aeris and..david? :))

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