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Flowers For Algernon Argumentative Essay

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Casey Arscott Putman Hour 5 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics are the standards of right and wrong and weather or not you feel comfortable in a situation. Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man from the story, "Flowers for Algernon", has the I.Q of 68. He signed up test subject for a surgery. Although without him they would still had to of do it on someone else. They never did tell Charlie what type of side effect there could be. His doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. When Charlie volunteered to be the patient, the doctors or any one else did not tell him what the side effects could possibly be. Even though he did benefit from the surgery for a few months he didn’t stay intelligent. He was able …show more content…

He felt like he was letting the doctors down. As he was taking the tests he would freak out. For one of the tests he didn’t understand the first time he tried, he thought the same person giving ther test worded the directions differently the second time. When in fact he actually was just getting smarter. Although this face of rehab went by for a short amount of time, he still went through it. Although the doctors did the surgery in the name of science they, they never did tell him the effects. Also Charlie was not as smart as most men so he didn’t think that at the time anything could go wrong. As Charlie progressed through time he reached his highest point. Then after that he started to go down in intelligence. Eventually to die just as Algernon did. Charlie Gordons doctors did not act ethically when performing the surgery on him. They didn’t ever tell him the side effects. They never warned him about what could happen and Charlie, being the way that he is, could not think at the time their could be side effects. The surgery also caused Charlie to lose his job for a certain amount of time for reasons that his friends were nervous with him being smart. Causing him to lose all his friends. That is why I think his doctors did not act

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