In contrast, once Charlie had become intelligent
In contrast, once Charlie had become intelligent
This Story is called “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. Charlie Gordon shouldn’t have the operation. Some people are treated differently not only for how they look but, because they aren’t smart. He thinks at the beginning of the story that because he thinks he failed a test that as he said “I had a test today. I think I failed it.…
"What's in an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much." The Rorschach tests were not appropriate for determining if Charlie was suitable for the procedure to improve his intelligence. This argumentative essay is about why the Rorschach tests would not help Charlie. The Rorschach tests are not for helping intelligence, they help determine the emotional fitness of warring parents.…
Charlie went beyond the normal intelligence level making it extremely difficult to communicate…
Donnegan, Charlie’s boss, shows Charlie a petition that eight hundred and forty names have signed to demand Charlie to be fired. He talks with Fanny, the bakery's cashier, about his feeling and she tries to tell him that wanting to be more than God had intended him to be is a mistake. “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved” (199). This explains that Charlie’s intelligence is leaving a gap between him and his love ones. He is so intelligent that other people are staying away from him leaving him alone.…
All in all, this story is telling the reader not to judge a book by its cover. Although Charlie was once mentally retarded, he became very smart after his brain surgery. Even after that surgery, people still made fun of him because of the drastic change. Even when people aren't very smart, people should not judge them because they will never know what that person may have gone through, or what will happen in the future that could help them. Although people may seem like they don't know what's happening around them, they will eventually realize who their real friends are, so people should always be nice to each other no matter…
On page 285 in the short story, “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, it states “Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.” In this quote, Charlie writes that he wants to be a part of the operation to be smarter. Charlie is not being forced against his will in any way.…
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ( Einstein ) This greatly applies to the story, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes which is about a young man named Charlie Gordon who unfortunately has a low intelligence level. Just like the quote, Charlie had the ability all this time to become very smart with an IQ of over 200 after a neurosurgery. Later on the story, Charlie’s operation backfires putting his IQ back down to sixty-eight.…
For Charlie, ignorance is bliss; ignorance was his happiness. Charlie was better off before the surgery because he was not aware of the hardships his intelligence would bring. With rapidly growing intellect, Charlie’s relationships…
I dint try hard enuff” (Keyes 379). Charlie started to doubt himself when he was becoming illiterate again even though it wasn’t his fault he was returning to his original state. Charlie could have died, but the story didn’t reveal that part. It wasn’t worth Charlie dying to be smart for a couple weeks or months, because you don’t need to be smart to live. When Charlie was smart he was asked to quit his job at the factory he worked at, he wrote “They’ve driven me out of the factory.…
Every flashbacks helps him understand what is going on with the intelligent Charlie. The reader draws a first hand account of how his intelligence, get a close up of how his intelligence changes throughout the story. He didn’t remember much about his earlier life, but after the experiment he began…
Charlie's main goal is to fit in with everyone. Charlie works at a factory and little does he know, but all his coworkers make fun of him and Charlie takes it as a joke and considers them all friends. Charlie allows them to make fun of him mostly because he doesn't know that they are, that takes place in his intelligence. Whenever someone does…
Firstly, Charlie experiences many challenges with his emotions once he becomes intelligent. To begin, Charlie starts to recall throbbing things that he went through in his past, which he never knew about before he gained any knowledge. Due to the intelligent Charlie has become, he has bad memories of his life before “Seeing Charlie…
In the book Charlie says, “I re-read my paper on the Algernon Gordon Effect and I got the strange feeling that it was written by someone else.” (P.g. 59) This quote proves that Charlie cannot read his own writing, which leads to the sign of dumbness. Also, if you think about it, Charlie wrote the book and he does not know how to read it! The words were too complicated for him to understand causing him to search the words in the dictionary.…
Charlie’s lifelong dream was to be intelligent and fit in with society. From Charlie’s scientific discovery, it was revealed that Charlie might perhaps die since the lab mouse, Algernon, did. However, even if Charlie does die, he would have died achieving his dream. Although some may argue the operation was not worth the risk, Charlie did not have much of a bright and successful future with an intelligence quotient of sixty-eight in the first place. “If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me Im glad I got a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned a lot of things that I never new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel bit” (Keyes 209).…
It was his dream to be smart. He took the chance to triple his intelligence. The A.I surgery Charlie had significantly changes his life in a good way. He was able to make new friends, feel emotions, and see the world in a different perspective. Charlie was able to make new friends and able to see who his real friends were.…