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Charlie Gordon (Indirect Characterization (Charlie is persistent, he…
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The story revolves around Charlie's failures and successes. This causes the reader to express emotions for him, making him the protagonist.
"I told him thanks doc you wont be sorry for giving me my 2nd chance like Miss Kinnian says. And I meen it like I tolld them. After the operashun Im gonna try to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard" (Keyes, 7).
Charlie's dreams of being like everyone else and being smart has driven him to due the necessary things to be like that
"If the operashun werks good I'll show that mouse I can be as smart as he is even smarter. Then I'll be abel to reed better and spell the werds good and know lots of things and be like other pepul" (Keyes, 8).
Miss Kinnian causes Charlie to change and question himself, his feelings for her change his ideals and himself
"The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy" (Keyes, 51).
Charlie is gullible, he takes in a lot of things at face value and believes it's true without any other consideration
"The lie takes it to Hymie Roth the next day during lunch period in school and asks Hymie to write on the paper for him... Hymie prints very carefully in large letters on the paper, laughing all the time, and he tells Charlie, 'Boy, this will knock her eyes out" (Keyes, 32).
The influence of the narrator has caused Charlie to be the person that the reader sympathizes and most likely agrees with. His thoughts are portrayed as something to sympathize with.
"His clothes are torn and his nose is bleeding and one of his teeth is broken, and after Gus and Oscar go away he sits on the sidewalk and cries. The blood tastes sour. The other kids just laugh and shout" (Keyes, 33).
"He said you know Charlie we are not shure how this experamint will werk on pepul because we onley tried it up to now on animils. I said thats what Miss Kinnian tolld me but I dont even care if it herts or anything because Im strong and I will werk hard" (Keyes, 3)"
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"I found out what a Rorschach is.It's the test with the inkblots, the one I took before the operation. As soon as I saw what it was, I got frightened. I knew Burt was going to ask me to find the pictures, and I knew I wouldn't be able to. I was thinking, if only there was some way of knowing what kind of pictures were hidden there. Maybe there weren't any pictures at all. Maybe it was just a trick to see if I was dumb enough to look for something that wasn't there" (Keyes, 34).