God created everyone to be unique and different. God knew what he was doing when he created mankind. He made someone look slimmer than another, but he did that for a reason. Despite that, everyone in this world counts and one cannot be better than another. However, it would not be a wise idea to change who you are, mentally or physically, through surgery. In this case, Charlie Gordon decided to change who he was by taking an operation to increase his Intelligence Quotient (IQ). His original IQ was sixty-eight and he did the operation to become perspicacious. However, he did not know what was going to happen to him after. Charlie Gordon from the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes should not have had the surgery because he was
