Flowers For Algernon
Everyone is different and people think differently, however you can usually change yourself to be like everyone else or whatever you want to be but some people struggle and have learning differences so they can't change no matter how hard they try. Charlie Gordon is a full grown man with an IQ of 68 and the only thing he wants is to be smart, but with a score like Charlie's you would be considered mentally inadequate. Charlie cannot change his intelligence because of mental restrictions until he is offered a surgery that can triple his IQ, and when he hears about the opportunity he jumps on it, he is very eager to begin his transformation into becoming smart.There for Charlie should take the surgery and get what he ultimately …show more content…
Some of Charlie's coworkers where incredibly mean to him, they made fun of him made him do embarrassing things simply for their amusement. Charlie seems to believe that they are his friends before the surgery “Their really my friends and they like me” (Daniel Keyes, 6). Charlie says this immediately after being made fun of and people are laughing because he thinks they are laughing with him not at him, which really seems mean to be making fun of or honestly using someone to make fun of them, and Charlie has no clue that they are doing that because he thinks that that's what friends do. Although later in the surgery Charlie finally begins to comprehend why they truly want him around. Charlie really grasps the fact that “Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I’m ashamed.” (Daniel Keyes, 6). This truly displays when Charlie understands what people do to him and he later explains that he thinks that it is a good thing that he understand who truly wants him around and who wants him around to take advantage of him. Also when he understands how horrible the things they do to him are it has an effect on the people doing it to him and they start to understand that what they are doing is very wrong and they should never treat people like that no matter how smart they are
Everyone is different and people think differently, however you can usually change yourself to be like everyone else or whatever you want to be but some people struggle and have learning differences so they can't change no matter how hard they try. Charlie Gordon is a full grown man with an IQ of 68 and the only thing he wants is to be smart, but with a score like Charlie's you would be considered mentally inadequate. Charlie cannot change his intelligence because of mental restrictions until he is offered a surgery that can triple his IQ, and when he hears about the opportunity he jumps on it, he is very eager to begin his transformation into becoming smart.There for Charlie should take the surgery and get what he ultimately …show more content…
Some of Charlie's coworkers where incredibly mean to him, they made fun of him made him do embarrassing things simply for their amusement. Charlie seems to believe that they are his friends before the surgery “Their really my friends and they like me” (Daniel Keyes, 6). Charlie says this immediately after being made fun of and people are laughing because he thinks they are laughing with him not at him, which really seems mean to be making fun of or honestly using someone to make fun of them, and Charlie has no clue that they are doing that because he thinks that that's what friends do. Although later in the surgery Charlie finally begins to comprehend why they truly want him around. Charlie really grasps the fact that “Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I’m ashamed.” (Daniel Keyes, 6). This truly displays when Charlie understands what people do to him and he later explains that he thinks that it is a good thing that he understand who truly wants him around and who wants him around to take advantage of him. Also when he understands how horrible the things they do to him are it has an effect on the people doing it to him and they start to understand that what they are doing is very wrong and they should never treat people like that no matter how smart they are