He has not been assigned, as he has been CHOSEN.
Answer:
Charlie kept on writing the progress reports because he thought that the project would still continue and nothing will be lost.Algernon dies after his motor activity slows and he loses coordination. A dissection after death shows that the mouse's brain had lost weight. At the end of the short story version of "Flowers for Algernon," Charlie is showing all the signs of decline that Algernon the mouse did.
