ELA Flowers for Algernon Study Cards Flashcards
(20 cards)
Point of View
The narrator’s position in relation to a story being told.
First person point of view
Uses the perspective of I/We
Second person point of view
Uses the perspective of you. Like y/n
Third person point of view
Uses the perspective of he/she/it/they
Charlie at the end
- Charlie’s intelligence had gone away.
- He could not read anything that he wrote of his full report about the operation
- He eventually moved to a different city
Sub-
under : beneath : below
Suspicion
a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.
Deterioration
the process of becoming progressively worse.
Introspection
the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.
Direct object
a word or phrase that receives the action of the verb.
Direct Object Example
In the sentence The students eat cake, the direct object is cake; the word eat is the verb and cake is what’s being eaten.
Indirect object
the word or phrase that receives the direct object.
Indirect Object Example
In the sentence The teacher gave the students cake, the indirect object is the students. The direct object is cake, and the students are the ones who eat it.
Inkblot tests
This test was designed to look for patterns of thought disorder in schizophrenia and has evolved to include other areas, like personality, emotional disorders, and intelligence.
Why Charlie was chosen
Charlie was chosen because he was highly desperate to learn. To make his brain function the way that he would have liked to. He was also recommended for the operation by his teacher.
Changes at Charlie’s workplace during the study phase
When Charlie had become intelligent and went back to work, he finally understood that the people he thought were his friends, were actually a bunch of bullies. Charlie noticed now that they were making fun of him when he could not notice that when he was not smart.
Charlies Return to his workshop
After Charlie had lost his intelligence, he went to work back at the factory again. Still, people were making fun of him. But, he had found two good friends that protected him.
Drawing conclusions
The information that is implied or inferred. This means that the information is never clearly stated. Writers often tell you more than they say directly.
The theme about Science: Science and Technology
“problems imagined as resulting from inventions, discoveries, or scientific hypotheses”—in this case, a surgical procedure that can turn a person of subnormal intelligence into a genius.
Adam & Eve Allusion
Both Flowers for Algernon and the Garden of Eden are similar as they both thought biting from the tree of knowledge would bring them intelligence. At the beginning of the story of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was blessed with happiness but always desired to be smart.
