Thesis For Flowers For Algernon

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Ever wonder what it would feel like to be three times smarter than you are right now? Would you ever take the chance to do that? Charlie Gordon did. In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes Charlie had a learning disability. Everyday Charlie wanted to be smart. It was his dream to be smart. He took the chance to triple his intelligence. The A.I surgery Charlie had significantly changes his life in a good way. He was able to make new friends, feel emotions, and see the world in a different perspective.
Charlie was able to make new friends and able to see who his real friends were. Before the A.I surgery Charlie had he thought everyone was his friend. Even though the actually weren't his real friends because they would
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But i argue that it was actually a really great thing that Charlie saw the past. Charlie really wanted to know what happened with his mom and why things went the way they did. He never wanted to be left hanging and not knowing what happened. It actually turns out that it was Charlie's fault that his mom didn't love him and didn't want him his mom actually could never love anybody. That made Charlie feel a lot better about things because he finally realized it wasn't his fault his mom gave him up. Also it is often thought that that it was bad that Charlie realized he was being bullied. But I don't agree with that. It was actually a great thing that Charlie realized people were bullying him. When he realized that he was able to stand up for himself and see who his real friends were. He was able to separate himself from the people who bullied him and he was able to avoid it.
Charlie life was dramatically better after making the decision to have the A.I surgery. If charlie didn't have the A.I surgery he wouldn't be able to make the new friends that he did, feel the emotions that he felt and see the world of how the world really was. After the A.I surgery Charlie had no regrets doing it what so ever. So if you had the chance to have the A.I surgery wouldn't

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