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    Does Charlie Gordon seem happy with the choices he’s made with the intelligence surgery in the story “Flowers for Algernon?” In the story “Flowers for Algernon” a 37 year old man has a low intelligence which makes him decide to have a intelligence surgery to bring up his I.Q. to make him smarter. Charlie Gordon should not have had the intelligence surgery because he scared people, he lost his job, and it was not permanent. After the surgery, Charlie changed so much and so fast it scared…

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    “How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” This quote, taken from Plato's, “The Allegory of the Cave”, poses an important rhetorical question, rooted within the short story, “Flowers for Algernon”. This short science fiction story, written by Daniel Keys, is told from the first-person daily entry logs of Charlie Gordon. A hollow man at first, Charlie is plagued with the burden of very low intelligence; he struggles with reading and writing.…

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    Flowers for Charly “It is this story, involving a personal crisis, which makes Charly a warm and rewarding film,” as said by movie critic Roger Ebert regarding Charly, the film based off of Flowers for Algernon. Flowers for Algernon is a story that explores the growth of relationships, change in mental state, and discovering one’s self and happiness. Charly, the story’s main character, is a man with a mental disability who, throughout the plot, undergoes an operation with the intentions of…

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    Charlie’s reflections: A literary analysis of structure, theme, character, and style. In this essay, I critically explore a structure, theme, character, and style of Flowers for Algernon (1959) by Daniel Keyes with an intent to prove why it is written in a form of a reflective journal. The main protagonist, Charlie Gordon, wrote about his personal experience with an experimental surgical research that attempted to increase his intelligence quotient (IQ). As a result of this…

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    Flowers for Algernon is a scientific fiction written by Daniel Keys about a man who was not smart but was happy. Mentally retarded 37 year old Charlie Gordon volunteers for an experiment tripling his intelligence quotient from 68. After being an experiment lab rat, Charlie gets smarter but his life changes for the worse. Before the experiment, Charlie was able to look forward to going to work and hanging out with his friends. Once his IQ tripled, Charlie realized his “friends” were making fun of…

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    IQ or intelligence quotient is said by some to be one of the best ways to measure a person’s intellectual capability. Similarly, in the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon undergoes a surgery to triple his IQ of 68 to 204. As the story progresses, Charlie slowly but surely starts to become smarter and gains more self-awareness for his surroundings, making him angry and often frustrated with his doctors. At the peak of his…

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    According to the website edublox, less than 2.2 percent of the population has an IQ lower than 70. The main character in the short story, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is one of that 2.2 percent. When a man named Charlie Gordon, who is eager to become smarter, gets selected to be the first human test subject for a surgery that is aimed to increase intelligence, he learns rapidly about his feelings, reading and writing, and comprehension, but then the project goes wrong and loses his…

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    "Good Will Hunting" is about a young cleaner Will easily solved a very difficult subject, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote on the bulletin board. Professor discovered this talent, hope to train him to become a genius in his mind. However, Will extremely clever, but rebellious uninhibited, even fights trouble everywhere. Because he was born poor, by the shadow of the impact of childhood abuse, the mind seems to be on the lock, a professor can not walk into his world.…

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    “Once again, now, I have the feeling of shame burning inside me. This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved”. Although Charlie had finally attained his dream of being more intelligent, it came with a price, he traded his happiness for intelligence. As the story progresses, we can see how Charlie starts to become unhappy. As he becomes more and more intelligent, Charlie discovers problems he didn’t even know he had. This begins when he starts to…

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    In the story, Flowers for Algernon, the operation that Charlie, the intellectually disabled main character gets to improve his intelligence is very isolating to him. First of all, Charlie is not allowed to tell anyone what it is for, as shown in his statement on March 23, “They said it was better I shud go back to work but I cant tell anyone what the operashun was for.” Consequently, as his coworkers notice his increasing intelligence, they become increasingly scared of him, and start avoiding…

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