CHARACTERISM

Characterism is the characterization of people or describing people in story like Charlie Gordon, Algernon, Dr. Strauss, Dr. Nemur, and Mrs. Kinnian. Charlie Gordon is the narrator and main character of the book and change of IQ sets the theme and issues Charlie faces.Charlie works in a bakery cleaning until he gets a job writing in his diary/journal at the bakery Charlie is made fun and thinks people are his friend and laugh at him but after the operation realizes why people really are around him for. Alice Kinnian is Charlie's night school teacher who respects Charlie and recomends Charlie for the operation, Mrs. Kinnian teaches Charlie to read and write because she enjoys teaching her students especially Charlie. Dr. Nemur is an angry doctor who is friendly and never really cares about anyone especially Charlie until he experiments on him he thinks of charlie the same as algernon lab rat or experiment subject. Dr. Strauss is Dr. Nemur's partner in Charlie's experiment Dr. Strauss actually cares and is concerned for Charlie unlike Dr. Nemur who thinks of charlie lower than himself.
David Villagra