But he said if I want to get smart I got to do what he says. I told him I dint think I was going to get smart and he puts his hand on my sholder and said Charlie you dont know it yet but your getting smarter all the time. You wont notice for a while. I think he was just being nice to make me feel good because I dont look any smarter.
Charlie felt discouraged in this passage. Hence the correct answer is C. The excerpt is taken from the Flowers for Algernon. It is a short story based on science fiction and the novel was written by Daniel Keyes. The short story was written in the year of 1958 and was first published in April, 1959. He won Hugo Award for best Short Story in the year of 1960.
