Flowers For Algernon: Comparing The Book And The Movie

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The story Flowers for Algernon has both similarities and differences with the film version Charly, such as talked about Charly going through a inkblot test, but in the film it didn’t talk anything about it. One similar thing between the story and the film is that Charly was doing races with Algernon, but in the film he didn’t want to race with Algernon anymore and flipped out. The two showed that his friend were mean to him, but when he did the sergury and became smart his friends made a patision to fire Charly. The film it explained Miss Kinnian and Charly were together, in the story they were not seeing each other. One and the other assume that Charly was going to night school. Algernon died in the text and story, that meant to Chary that

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