This book features many colorful characters, the main one being Charlie. His full name is Charles Gordon. He is 32 years old and is the subject of an experiment. Part of his job in the experiment is to write down progress reports and a good portion of the book is made up by these reports. Another one of the main characters in the story is Professor Nemur, the man who is running the experiment. Charlie has mixed feelings about the Professor because some of the tests confuse him. The title character, surprisingly, is a mouse. Algernon has already had the experiment done on him. Charlie had to race Algernon through a maze on various occasions throughout the story in order to see how he is progressing. The rest of the characters aren't in the story as often but are still important. Alice Kinnian is a teacher at

Beekman College where Charlie writes his compositions. Fay is Charlie's neighbor and an artist.

Finally, Charlie starts seeing some results and he gets to a point where he is quite intelligent. He has learned a lot thanks to the surgery, including other languages. Professor Nemur is satisfied with the outcome and decides to take Charlie along with him to New York where they plan to discuss the experiment at a convention. Around this time Algernon escapes from his cage. Eventually Charlie finds him and decides to keep him. He buys an apartment for Algernon and himself. This is where he meets Fay, his neighbor from across the hall. She is an artist and she thought that the maze with Algernon in it was quite creative because it was sculpture with a living element in it.

I would have to stay that what I learned from this book is that having smarts doesn't mean happiness. As a matter of fact it means pretty much the opposite. It isn't as much having smarts but what comes with it, being serious. Charlie seemed like a person who was content with who he was before the surgery. However after the surgery, and even to a higher degree after his intelligence wore off, Charlie seemed to be feeling worse than ever before because he saw what he could have. I think the story teaches you to just be content with who you are.

When Charlie finally gets ready to have the surgery done he is again quite nervous. He has to go into a room with a bunch of doctors in it and this makes him nervous. Once the surgery is finished Charlie is at first disappointed because he didn't see any immediate results. Professor Nemur t

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Approximate Word count = 1086
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)