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In the story Flowers for Algernon a man named Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and his friends were bullying him and he eventually found out and he gets angry and he feels like he is dumb. Charlie was happier when he did not know that his friends were bullying him but when he does find out he is wary of who real friends are like people that are trying to help him and bullies people that he is trying to avoid that want to hurt him. Charlie is better off knowing the truth about… For example, he states that even he thinks it is better for him to know because he never knew his friends wanted him around so much to make fun of him

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