There are many similarities and differences between the movie, “Charly,” and the book, “Flowers For Algernon,” by Daniel Keys, including the fact that Charlie Gordon was teased by his friends in both formats, there were different founders of the Algernon-Gordon Effect, and there were drastically different endings to the story. The first similarity between the movie and the book is Charlie was laughed at by his friends in both formats. In the book, Charlie’s friends left him in the bar and constantly laughed at his mental disability. However, in the movie, Charlie’s friends laughed at him when he found raw dough in his locker and they tricked him into standing in one spot for the entire night. In both formats, Charlie Gordon’s “friends” were
