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Awakenings By Penny Marshall And Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

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The movie awakenings produced by Penny Marshall and book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes are two very similar pieces of material. To start both characters have extremely crippling disabilities that make everyday life extremely difficult. As seen On page 268 of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Charlie says "Miss. Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart." As well as in the movie Awakenings by Penny Marshall main character Leonard Lowe has been unable to speak and move properly for 30 years. This verifies that both Leonard and Charlie have disabilities that make every day life a challenge for them. Another similarity in both Awakenings and Flowers for Algernon is the fact that both Charlie Gordon and Leonard Lowe both had fluctuations …show more content…

He experiences, psychotic behavior, convulsions, paranoia, and more, Leonard eventually goes back to the catatonic state he was in towards the beginning of the film and eventually passes away. As Well as in Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon after the surgery Charlie was using big words and, his IQ was very high, but he started to rapidly decline towards the end of the story and eventually says he is "going away" which can be inferred as the after life and/or death. It can be understood that although the results of both treatments were good at first, the long term effects were not well known and neither of characters had good long term outcomes. A third connection between Algernon's Flowers and the film's awakening is the similarity of medical ethics issues.On page 270 of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Doctors Nemur and Strauss fail to tell Charlie what the operation is, nor does Charlie have any sort of ability to understand what is happening to him. In the movie Awakenings by Penny Marshall, although Leonard gives "consent" with the reference to the poem Rilkes Panther, insinuating he is trapped in a metaphorical "cage" doctor Sayer technically does not have direct or written consent from the patient

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