flowers for Algernon

chapter 14: progress report 11 april 9-16

Tonight after work Miss Kinnian was at the laboratory. She looked
like she was glad to see me but scared. I told her dont worry Miss Kinnian
1m not smart yet and she laffed. She said I have confidence in you Charlie the
way you struggled so hard to read and right better than all the others. At werst
you will have it for a littel wile and your doing somthing for sience.
We are reading a very hard book. I never read such a hard book before.
Its called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert
Iland. Hes smart and figers out all kinds of things so he can have a house and
food and hes a good swimmer. Only I feel sorry because hes all alone and has
no frends. But I think their must be somebody else on the iland because theres
a picture with his funny umbrella looking at footprints. 1 hope he gets a frend
and not be lonly.
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April 10
Miss Kinnian teaches me to spell better. She says look at a word and
close your eyes and say it over and over until you remember. 1 have lots of
truble with through that you say threw and enough and tough that you dont
say enew and tew. You got to say enuff and tuff. Thats how I use to write it
before 1 started to get smart. 1m confused but Miss Kinnian says theres no
reason in spelling.
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Apr 14
Finished Robinson Crusoe. 1 want to find out more about what
happens to him but Miss Kinnian says thats all there is. Why
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Apr 15
Miss Kinnian says 1m leming fast. She read some of the Progress
Reports and she looked at me kind of funny. She says 1m a fine person and
III show them all. 1 asked her why. She said never mind but I shoudnt feel
bad if I find out that everybody isnt nice like I think. She said for a person
who god gave so little to you done more then a lot of people with brains they
never even used. 1 said all my frends are smart people but there good. They
like me and they never did anything that wasnt nice. Then she got something
in her eye and she had to run out to the ladys room.
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Apr 16
Today, I lerned, the comma} this is a comma (,) a period, with a tail,
Miss Kinnian, says its importent, because} it makes writing, better, she said,
somebody, coud lose, a lot of money, if a comma, isnt, in the, right place, I dont
have, any money, and I dont see, how a comma, keeps you, from losing it,
But she says, everybody, uses commas, so III use, them too,