Characters
Events
Literary Analysis
Flowers for Algernon
Theme: Truth and Consequences
100

He tried to escape the 11:59.

Who is Lester ?

100

The machines are going to take over.

What is they believe all men are dead?

100

Informed guess about what will happen next based on story details.

What are predictions?

100

Why Charlie wants to be smart.

So other people will like him and he'll have lots of friends.

100

What did railroad car porters use to describe death?

What is the 11:59 train?
200

Sassy girl from New York who didn't plan to let anyone else win.

Who is Squeaky?

200

The reason that Lester hides in his apartment.

What is to escape death after he hears the whistle of the 11:59?

200

The sequence of related events in a short story.

What is plot?

200

Two guys Charlie thinks are his friends.

Who are Frank and Joe?

200

This person saw Twain's conflict with Pilot Brown differently than Twain thought he would.

Who is the captain of the steamboat?

300

He defended his brother by hitting Pilot Brown.

Who is Mark Twain and/or Sam Clemens?

300

What Raymond does at the end of the race?

What is runs to catch Squeaky and climbs the fence?

300

The name for the main problem and how it is worked out.

What are conflict and resolution?

300
The reason Charlie is lonely.

He is too smart for people.

300

He was able to see the truth of the clues.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

400
These two characters solve a mystery for Helen Stoner.

Who are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson?

400

The dummy bell pull, a low clang, and a whistle are clues to the mystery in this story.

What is The Speckled Band?

400

The overall feeling a piece of writing creates for the reader.

What is mood?

400

The reason Charlie is going away.

What is he doesn't want people to fell sorry for him.

400
The machines base their beliefs about the worth of themselves on other machines on the level of their _______.

What is their brain or intelligence?

500

Why will you say he is mad (crazy)?

Who is the narrator of The Tell-tale Heart?

500
The purpose of the experiment that Charlie is part of.

What is to increase intelligence?

500

Looking for similarities and differences among the people in a story.

What is compare and contrast?

500

The name Charlie gives his research about increasing intelligence.

What is the Algernon-Gordon Effect?

500

Charlie finds out that it is not how __________ a person is that determines if he has friends.

What is intelligent or smart?