Uhh, isn't this about 20 pages long? I remember reading it in like 9th grade, I think it's a short story.Originally Posted by coqauvin
Uhh, isn't this about 20 pages long? I remember reading it in like 9th grade, I think it's a short story.
No, it's a 150-200 page (don't quote me i don't remember) novel written in the format of journal entries from a mentally retarded person who undergoes an operation that brings him up to Mr. E levels of intelligence. It chronicles his life paralleled by a mouse named Algernon, who was the test rat of the procedure, his coming of age and going back through all the events in his life before regressing back to what he was before the operation.
Yep, that's the plot I remember... except I swear it took up no more than about 15-20 pages in my 9th grade lit compilation.
EDIT: Okay apparently it started out as a short story and he later expanded it into a novel. Mystery solved.
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