<P> The short story and the novel share many similar plot points, but the novel expands significantly on Charlie's developing emotional state as well as his intelligence, his memories of childhood, and the relationship with his family . </P> <P> The story is told through a series of journal entries written by the story's protagonist, Charlie Gordon, a man with a low IQ of 68 who works a menial job as a janitor in Donnegan's Plastic Box Company . He is selected to undergo an experimental surgical technique to increase his intelligence . The technique had already been successfully tested on Algernon, a laboratory mouse . The surgery on Charlie is also a success, and his IQ more than doubles . </P> <P> He realizes his co-workers at the factory, who he thought were his friends, only liked him around so they could tease him . His new intelligence scares his co-workers, and they start a petition to have him fired, but when Charlie learns about the petition, he quits . As Charlie's intelligence peaks, Algernon's suddenly declines--he loses his increased intelligence and mental age, and dies afterward, buried in the back yard of Charlie's home . Charlie realizes his intelligence increase is also temporary . He starts to experiment to find the cause of the flaw in the experiment, which he calls the "Algernon--Gordon Effect". When he finishes his experiments, his intelligence regresses to its original state . Charlie is aware of, and pained by, what is happening to him as he loses his knowledge and his ability to read and write . He tries to earn back his old job as a janitor, and tries to revert to normal, but he cannot stand the pity from his co-workers, landlady, and Ms. Kinnian . Charlie states he plans to "go away" from New York and move to a new place . His last wish is for someone to put flowers on Algernon's grave . </P> <P> The novel opens with an epigraph taken from Book VII of Plato's The Republic: </P>

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