Compare And Contrast Charlie And Algernon

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Should Charlie have partaken in the operation? Some would say yes, because he learns a lot for himself and for science. After the operation, Charlie slowly learns more and more until he is smarter than his teacher and possibly even his doctors. A few weeks later Algernon died, when Charlie found him, he started to research and tried to find out why the operation is only temporary and wrote a paper on it finding out even more for science, “I am going ahead with my plans to carry their research forward. With all due respect to both these fine scientists, I am well aware there limitations. If there is an answer, I’ll to find it out for myself.” (186) Yes, he went back to his original mind capacity, but he helped the development and research of

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