Flowers for Algernon 201-300

Charlie starts working on his own project for the Weller Foundation, the foundation that was responsible for his surgery. He calls Alice again just because he wanted to visit her. Algernon starts acting very different than normal. Sometimes he refuses to run the maze. He’ll get very grouchy and hostile, and he even bit Fay. Charlie came across his father and recognized him, but he didn’t say anything because he didn’t know what to say. Charlie discovers what he calls the Algernon-Gordon Effect. It states that when someone is artificially made more intelligent, they will decline in intelligence as quickly as they inclined. He knows this will happen to him, and he visits the Warren Home for mentally challenged adults because he knows this is where he’ll live some day. Algernon died, and Charlie’s afraid that the same will happen to him. He goes to visit his mom to receive closure. His mom has become old and senile. It takes her a while to realize and comprehend who he is, but once she does, she is so excited. Charlie’s sister, Norma, happened to come visit her mother while Charlie was there. Charlie was talking to Norma, and he gave her a hug, and then his mom went crazy. She thought that Charlie was trying to put moves on his sister, so she tried to stab him. Things went back to the way they were when he was a child. Charlie’s starting to decline rapidly. He’s beginning to have suicidal thoughts. He’s having trouble remembering things, and he’s starting to get very temperamental like Algernon was at the end of his life. Alice moves in with him for a while, but she knows she’ll have to leave before he goes completely crazy. He gets really mad at her and kicks her out because he doesn’t want her to see him make his transformation back to a mentally challenged man.