Charlie's Surgery Persuasive Essay

As Alfred Lord Tennyson said, “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” And it is very true. It is better to of experienced things than to never of experienced it at all. It is better to know about things like love and happiness and many other things. Charlie’s surgery was ethical because he got to experience things he never experienced before. It also helped out with knowing if the experiment would be able to be used on other people like Charlie. It was good that he had the experiment because then he was able to see the world like he never saw it before. Yes he went back the way he was before, but it was the experience that counts. Firstly, according to Dr. Strauss, “even if this fails you are making a good contribution to science.” (Keyes 11) What Dr. Strauss has done with doing the surgery is help science evolve. It made Algernon get smart and that was tested on a mouse so it was time to try it out on a human. It was ethical because now they can get further into …show more content…
Strauss is Charlie's doctor and he did not want charlie to tell people about the surgery. Why? The experiment that was done on Charlie was never done on a human before. Dr. Strauss did not want it going public because if it failed that would be very terrible for him. As Charlie stated, “How can i make him understand that he did not create me.”(Keyes 145) Dr. Strauss thought of charlie as human after the surgery but before the surgery he thought of him as nothing. What did he think of charlie when he came in? He thought of him as a test subject. That brings me to a similarity of Charlie and Algernon. They both were test subjects that later failed. Charlie and Algernon later became best friends; that was until Algernon began to act a little strange. Algernon later died and Charlie said, “If you ever get the chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave in the bak yard.”(Keyes 311) Charlie wants people to remember Algernon and he also wants people to remember