You could see Charlie's improvements in the progress reports while the movie had no way of showing them. ... When reading the book, Flowers for Algernon, you become Charlie Gordon. ... The book's use of the progress reports helped this idea. ... Charlie began by writing the reports, but soon his thoughts were too fast so he had to type. this soon also became too slow for his mind. ... Charlie was able to talk about his feelings in the progress reports. ...

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