In “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, the main character Charlie is an individual with mental disabilities who has been given the opportunity to undergo an operation that would improve his learning capacity. Charlie decides to have the surgery, but as he gets smarter, he realizes he will lose all of his progress, and he must learn how to cope with that difficult process. Throughout the story, the reader clearly knows that Charlie is a round character as when the workers at the factory made fun of him he “[didn’t] understand why he said that” (39). Because the reader knows what Charlie is thinking, it is clear that he is a round character through the way he expresses himself in his writing. While Charlie was beginning to get smarter he …show more content…
The change in Charlie is undeniable when Charlie starts beating the mouse Algernon, and he knows that he “must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon” (41). In addition to the reader’s ability to see Charlie’s progression, Charlie himself can see that he is getting smarter. This detail proves that Charlie has changed since the beginning of the story because just nine days after he complained that he was not getting smarter, he can see his own improvement. Later on, in Charlie’s arduous journey, he finds through his own research that his brain is going to regress to the point where he will no longer be able to function. Previously, he had pushed himself to learn as much as he could in a very short time period, causing his brain to retrograde at a rapid speed. In the resolution of the story, Charlie decides that he cannot take the pity from the people around him, and he must leave New York to escape the offers of philanthropy that surrounded him (62). Charlie’s decision to leave reflects the major effect of his stark regression, and explains his feelings on what was going to happen to him. Charlie is a round, dynamic character whose personality and views speak deeply to the
Flowers For Algernon: Charlie´s Operation If you had the chance to have an operation for artificial intelligence, would you take it? I think that most people would, especially if they have a lower than average IQ. After reading an excerpt from the book Flowers for Algernon and watching Flowers For Algernon the movie, I believe that Charlie Gordon did the right thing when he got the operation to increase his intelligence.
Should people have a second chance to get smart, well in the story “Flower for Algernon” by Daniel Keys, a man name Charlie Gordon was kinda mentally challenged, before two doctors was doing some experiments to make people smart witch work but they only tested it on a white rat name Algernon, but I think charlie should have a chance to get smart. One piece of evidence that points to this is that it was charlie lifetime dream to get smart. Charlie had an I.Q of 68 so he is really wanting to be smart. Charlie never had any friends too so if he gets smart he will get some friend. Charlie needs some friends so he can be happy and not lonely.
Sam Duong Mrs. Veitch Period 6 Date 2/15/18 Intelligence as a Car Many things in this world are like cars. Cars may seem better at first yet, they actually cause more harm than help. This was the case in the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes.
In the Story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes A thirty year old man named Charlie Gordon is faced with a decision to get an experiment to make him three times smarter. I think that he should not have the test done on him because there could be some risks to it and have a negative impact on him. Therefore I think that Charlie should not have the test done on him. If Charlie Gordon did not have the test done on him then he would not know people were making fun of him.
this quote clearly shows that Charlie develop A New scroll perspective on the world proving once again he was better off before artificial intelligence. it is often supposed that Charlie was better off after the artificial intelligence surgery. for the following two reasons, first off Charlie contributed to science. secondly he realizes the truth about his friend. yes, he may have contributed to science but he is a human not a lab rat.
An experience that changes Charlie is when Charlie’s father dies. This experience changes him when he says, “When the undertakers came to wheel my father’s lifeless body out to the hearse, it was as if they took my childhood with them. Like other boys, I still wore ‘Knickerbockers’ in the schoolyard. I played ‘queenies’ and marbles too. But once the lessons were over, I returned home and stepped into the long pants of adulthood.
Was Charlie Better Off Before or After the Surgery? In “Flowers for Algernon,” Daniel Keyes wrote that Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68, and is in Mrs. Kinnian’s night class for slow adults. Charlie may be dumb, but he was so happy before the surgery and he had a job and “friends.” The reason that Charlie Gordon was better off before the surgery is because he had the motivation to become smart, and after the surgery he becomes depressed and realizes that the world plus the people in it are cruel.
However, after surgery he still had to work hard at certain things. In other words, the surgery was not a guaranty towards complete intelligence, rather it was a relative increase in knowledge like with motivation. Charlie had been working with Miss Kinnian to become smarter and a better learner. Charlie told her when they were reading “I said please let me try agin. Ill get it in a few minits becus Im not so fast sometimes.
Also in paragraph 5 it says”Leo was slow in reading, slow in numbers,slow in understanding nearly everything that passed before him in class. He had no friends. This shows that Charlie changed Leo because in the beginning, Leo was unhappy. But Charlie makes him happy now when he saw no way to be happy after being put in a different classroom away from his classmates. Another way Charlie changed Leo was in the middle, Leo brought Charlie in for a presentation for forest fire week and he connected and understood it better.
Curiousity is “a strong desire to know or learn something,” Charlie Gordon, the main character in the story “Flowers for Algernon,” has this desire, but he has learning disabilities, Dr Struass, a neurosurgeon, and Dr Numan, a psychoexperimentalist, want to find a way to triple a persons I.Q. by artificial/surgical means. But when they operate on Charlie it makes a huge difference in his life. In the story, the author portrays the theme, “tampering with the way nature works can make many differences.” Charlie supports the theme because there are several things that happen because of the exper that make a difference in his life.
There is this stigma set in his mind that, “If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time(page 11). " Before his operation, Charlie had the fantasy that society would accept him if he was smarter and that he would not be ostracized. Although, it is not explicitly
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination,”(Einstein). Most people do not realize grades do not measure intelligence and age does not define maturity. The short story, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, is about a thirty-seven year old man named Charlie Gordon. He is a mentally disabled man who has an IQ of 68. As the subject of an experiment in human engineering, Charlie earns artificial intelligence that triples his IQ to 200; but this action came with more costs than benefits.