Mental Disabilities In Daniel Keyes 'Flowers For Algernon'

Daniel Keyes 's science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” is about a mentally retarded man named Charlie Gordon. Throughout life he hasn 't always been the smart one. He wants to change that, and by doing this he wants to do an operation that will expand his learning and his IQ will triple. Charlie met a mouse named Algernon, Algernon is going through this experiment as well. Charlie 's relationship with Algernon isn 't the best, Charlie 's hated him so much because Algernon kept winning in the test the doctors did with them.

His teacher, Miss Kinnian recommend him for the surgery out of anyone in the class due to his egre and positive outlook on intelligence. However, after the surgery, Charlie finds intelligence was a nice treat but was far from an importance in life and only took him away from what truly mattered. One could believe Charlie was wrong to undergo the surgery because of the side effects that came with the surgery such as physical and emotional instability, and amnesia, the depresion it came with, and how he lost all of his friends and loved ones with his extreme intelligence. First off, one reason Charlie should not have gotten the surgery is the depression and suicidal thoughts it came with for

For the patient, Charlie, it is going to take a great effort to get back to a normal life, in fact it may be impossible because he is going to move away now from where he is used to and this will greatly effect his quality of life. However ,others may argue that the doctors in Flowers for Algernon were ethical. The doctors did tell Charlie some of what they were doing yet not all. For example, at first he did not know why he was racing Algernon, the mouse. Others may also say, at least he got what he wanted, to be smart for a little while, therefore his quality of life was not affected greatly.

Before the operation, he was not that smart, as he states: “Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart” (Keyes, 285). However, he could still learn more through Miss Kinnian’s Adult School. Like Algernon the mouse, Charlie could die of the side effects of increasing human intelligence. It did make him smart for a short period of time, but it eventually wore off and led to problems that Charlie did not have before.

The conflict in the short story is that Charlie Gordon wants to be smart, he will soon get a operation done and be like everyone else but better. Once he was smart his brain started to deteriorate. The author showed the conflict by Charlie's progress reports. Throughout the progress reports you can see he starts to have a better IQ than starts going back to his normal IQ. In the script it only say that Charlie believes that everyone thinks he is killing himself at his pace [par.9

Destiny of the Republic is one the first novel I have read by Candice Millard, but based on Candice Millard work it kept me very hooked throughout the reading and it was an eye-opener in how technology took place in this novel in how it wasn 't effective in the surgery of James Garfield in trying to heal his infections from the bullet wound. When technology is such a great factor in today 's society how we ca n’t live without it today and how Americans today will go beyond crazy if we didn 't have the resources that we have today. So it makes me realize how everyone struggled tremendously during the 1800s, specifically with

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People should always take a risk to improve themselves especially if there is nothing to lose. “Flowers for Algernon” is a unique short story about ethics and self-improvement written by Daniel Keyes. The main character, Charles Gordon has a low IQ, but goes through some surgery to have his IQ increase three times. Readers experience his mental change through his many progress reports and can read about how his intelligence rapidly spikes at an alarming rate. After his IQ level reached the peak, it decreased as quickly as it increased.

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Who is Charlie Gordon? Charlie Gordon is a mentally regressed that has a surgery to make himself as smart or smarter than an average man. After His surgery has many good and bad experiences, he also starts having moral questions about the surgery while he experiences the side effects. The question is was he better off before or after the surgery. Charlie Gordon was better off after the surgery.

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