Benefits Of Human Engineering In Flowers For Algernon

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“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have,”( Lombardi ). The story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about Charlie Gordon a man with low intelligence that has the motivation to do anything. Charlie Gordon was subject to an operation that artificially increases intelligence. Charlie with his low intelligence triples his I.Q of 68 to a 204 then just as he reaches a plateau they find out that while his mind has been increasing he well decrease at that rate. So, In the experiment of human engineering there are more costs than benefits to human engineering.
First, when you have hope for something a person dreams of it and they relish over that hope for something better. Charlie had hope his only dream was to be smart. When

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