Having intelligence can change you- sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, a 37 year-old mentally challenged man, undergoes an operation to make him more intelligent. Charlie was unknowingly chosen to be the lab rat in an experiment to see if a certain operation could help mentally disabled beings become smarter. After he underwent this operation, Charlie was brilliant, but as time went on his brilliance started deteriorating. Charlie should not have gone through with the operation because it was not permanent, people were even less accepting of him, and it put his life in danger.
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“He is less cooperative; he refuses to run the maze any more; general motivation has decreased.” Algernon is deteriorating; he had the same operation as Charlie, and now his life is about to end because of it. If Algernon is dying, Charlie will have those same effects, because each of them had the same procedure. “My landlady Mrs Flynn is very worried about me. She says that I lay around all day and dont do anything … I told her I think Im sick.” Charlie tells Mrs. Flynn that he is sick just to get her off his back, but he knows and we know that his health is, actually, declining and it’s all because he helped science by doing the procedure. The side effects, of the operation, are affecting him; it’s like he’s morphing- first he was unintelligent, then he was intelligent, now he’s not so bright anymore and to make matters worse his life's in danger.
Charlie should not have done the operation because the results were not permanent, he was accepted less by other people, and it put his life in danger. I don’t think Charlie should have done the operation; I think there were some exceptional aspects of him doing it, yet there were many dangers of him doing it. Do you think Charlie should have gone through with the operation? It’s not worth risking everything, just to be
The operation was not permanent, so there was no reason to get his hopes up for …show more content…
“He is less cooperative; he refuses to run the maze any more; general motivation has decreased.” Algernon is deteriorating; he had the same operation as Charlie, and now his life is about to end because of it. If Algernon is dying, Charlie will have those same effects, because each of them had the same procedure. “My landlady Mrs Flynn is very worried about me. She says that I lay around all day and dont do anything … I told her I think Im sick.” Charlie tells Mrs. Flynn that he is sick just to get her off his back, but he knows and we know that his health is, actually, declining and it’s all because he helped science by doing the procedure. The side effects, of the operation, are affecting him; it’s like he’s morphing- first he was unintelligent, then he was intelligent, now he’s not so bright anymore and to make matters worse his life's in danger.
Charlie should not have done the operation because the results were not permanent, he was accepted less by other people, and it put his life in danger. I don’t think Charlie should have done the operation; I think there were some exceptional aspects of him doing it, yet there were many dangers of him doing it. Do you think Charlie should have gone through with the operation? It’s not worth risking everything, just to be