1. What does it mean “to pull a Charlie Gordon”?

2. Why wasn’t he smart automatically? Think of the analogy of a light bulb turned off then on.
* I need help with these

1. This is to do something stupid.

2. Charlie is a 32-year-old man with an I.Q. of 68, who has struggled his whole life toward the goal of "being smart." This goal is actually his mother's obsession.

Explanation:

do you have a copy of the poem?

can you share the passage so i can answer the question : )