Ari’s surgeon. He’s relatively young and looks like a former jock. Dr. Charles doesn’t buy that Ari saved Dante out of instinct, but he doesn’t press Ari especially hard to get anything more about Ari’s reasoning. He says that there’s more to Ari than Ari is letting on, though it’s unclear if he suspects that he is gay, or if he simply recognizes that Ari is kinder and more compassionate than Ari is comfortable admitting.
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Dr. Charles Character Timeline in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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Part Three, Chapter Two
...of flowers, and he decides that he doesn’t like flowers. He does like his surgeon, Dr. Charles , a young man who looks like he was once a jock. Sometimes, in Ari’s...
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Dr. Charles says that Ari did an amazing thing for Dante—he could’ve died. Ari says that it...
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Part Three, Chapter Five
...settle for the wheelchair. He names it Fidel. Before he gets out of the hospital, Dr. Charles visits Ari one more time and asks Ari if he’s thought about what they discussed....
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