Analyzing Daniel Keys Flowers For Algernon

“Flowers for Algernon” Argumentative Essay In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys, a man named Charles Gordon decides to receive brain surgery. He was hoping that the surgery would increase his intellectual ability, but he should not have chosen to receive the operation. All of the mice, including Algernon, died during the experiment. While Algernon was relapsing, Charlie was expelled from his job. After he lost his job, his intelligence started to deteriorate and had a high probability of dying. Although the surgery on the mice was successful in the beginning, Algernon later lost the intellect he gained. As Algernon degenerated intellectually, Charlie knew he would become less knowledgeable. Algernon started changing on May 24th according to Burt, who was in charge of the experimental animals. Algernon refuses to run the maze and stopped his consumption of food. Charlie then reviewed Algernon’s charts on June 5th and noticed he was regressing. The passage states that on June 5th, Algernon died two days ago on June 8th. After he died, Charlie dissected him and discovered his brain decreased in weight, just as he assumed. Charles knew that his intelligence will deteriorate similar to Algernon. As Algernon regressed and died, hatred has shown toward Charlie from his coworkers.

On April 30th, Mr. Donnegan, the manager, told Charlie that everyone would be better off without him. This implied that no one was enthusiastic about seeing the knowledgeable Charlie Gordon. Mr. Donnegan told Carlie that he insisted on Charlie leaving. Everyone in the factory, except Fanny Girden, signed a petition to have him fired. Fanny stated that Charlie was better off before he was operated on. She makes a similarity between Charlie’s surgery and to when Eve picked an apple from the tree of knowledge as well. Charlie knew the surgery was a failure after he was fired from his job as a