“Flowers for Algernon” is a short story about an adult with a mental disability. In the story we get to see viewpoints through his eyes (first person). The main character (Charlie Gordon) is an adult 37 years of age with blonde hair has a mental disability that holds him back.
Introduction to the broad topic (“Flowers for Algernon”) “Flowers for Algernon” is a short story about Charlie Gordon and his life. It talks about his life struggles and the test and experiments the scientist do to him to make him smarter. But in the end those experiments do not pay off. He lives a life were he is able to understand what is going on with his life but it is only temporary .
The movie and the short story are both different from each other. In the movie Charlie and his teacher Miss. Kinnean have sexual relations but in the short story they do not. In the book there is a Doctor named Dr. Nemur. But in the movie they do not have a Dr. Nemur he doesn’t exist in the movie. There are so many of the little things that are
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They have the same point that they are trying to get acrossed there are just small things that are different. In the book Charlie was instructed to take progress reports which he had done through the whole story. In the film Charlie was taking progress reports on a chalk board.
In the text “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie takes a test were he races Algernon in a maze. He lost the race and kept losing and had become angry. In the movie Charlie races algernon and becomes very upset due to him losing constantly. In the text Charlie takes classes in Mrs. Kinnean’s class. In the movie Charlie takes the same class with the same people everyday and his teacher is Mrs. Kinnean. In the text Charlie becomes smart at a fast rate and started losing friends because of it. In the movie Charlie became increasingly smart and he started to understand everything and he later lost a lot of