What Is The Iq Of 68 In Flowers For Algernon

Think about having the IQ of 68? “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes is a great story. It is about a 37 year old man named Charlie Gordon that isn’t very smart, maybe not smart at all. But he does see the good in everyone and does not understand the world around him. Lots of people make fun of him and he doesn’t even know it, even his suppose to be friends that work with him. Then, Charlie gets to be apart of an experiment. He then gets super smart and his friends stop talking to him and he thinks more of himself. But he then becomes not very smart and the story doesn’t end very happy. I think that Charlie should have got the operation. A reason I believe this is because all Charlie ever wants to do is help and he helped the scientists know if the experiment worked or not. He found out that his friends were making fun of him also and he needs to know that. Lastly, he figured out that the world isn’t what he thought it was, it is more negative than he could have imagined. …show more content…
They used him as an experiment to see if they could make people smarter by using the methods they did use on Charlie. Unfortunately, it didn’t work because they found out in the middle of the experiment that he would not keep what he had learned. “I must not become emotional. The facts and the results of my experiments are clear, and the more sensational aspects of my own rapid climb cannot obscure the fact that the tripling of intelligence by the surgical technique developed by Drs. Strauss and Nemur must be viewed as having little or no practical applicability (at the present time) to the increase of human intelligence.” (Keyes,79) In the quote from the text it explains that he will not keep what he has learned. But he did help the scientist figure out that they weren’t doing it right, so they can try to make it right if there is a