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Flowers for Algernon What would you go through to gain more intelligence? In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon was a man who had a mental disability. All he wanted was to be smart, so he had an operation done that would triple his IQ. It made him very smart but then it wore off so he became mentally challenged again. Charlie Gordon should have never done the surgery because he got so smart it affected him socially to where he couldn't talk to people and after the…

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Character: Charlie Gordon Charlie Gordon is a 32 year old man with Down syndrome and a low IQ of 68. Charlie works as a janitor and is generally a happy person. He is extremely nice and he doesn’t realise how poorly he is being treated. Charlie is accepted to undergo an experiment which is meant to increase his IQ and make him as smart as or smarter than the average person. This type of experiment was first done on a mouse named “Algernon”. The results were…

Charlie's whole life he felt left out. The theme I choose for this text was accepted. I included this because it shows how his life choices were based on not being accepted. This was the reason Charlie desired the surgery. Charlie really wanted many thing but it all comes down to acceptance. Charlie found it necessary for world to finally to accept him, so he requested to get intelligent. The factories workers didn’t accept him because he was dumb, but then even after the surgery he still was…

This way for the gas ladies and gentlemen is a collection of short stories following the experiences of narrator and author, Tadeusz Borowski, during his time in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Although the book was first published more than 50 years ago, Borowski's brutally honest, and personal accounts from one of the most traumatizing moments in human history help us gain an insight into modern events. The work of art provides us with a personal account for a moment in history that seems…

Would you ever get an operation to make you smarter. Well in the book “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes, The main character Charlie Gordon has a mental disability but goes threw an operation to make him intelligent. Later on he losses that intelligence and goes back to being nothing.Should Charlie have had the operation done, NO!! It was a bad idea from the start. There are many reasons why I think he shouldn't have had this operation done 1st He lost many friends and his job. 2nd…

The past plays a vital role in one’s development by forming a person’s identity in society. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes shows how the protagonist, Charlie Gordon, tries to change the way he is viewed in society. Through a surgery, Charlie Gordon had been transformed from being mentally incapacitated to an individual that has a highly developed, profound mind. His intelligence gives Charlie the ability to be aware of the world by seeing concepts in new ways. When Charlie first starts to…

The Devil In The White City Essay #1 The majority of people will realize this book is different after just reading the first two chapters of The Devil in The White City. Rather you find out the book is being told from two stories being jumped back in forth between two totally different men in chicago during the world fair, or the interruptions of flashbacks, and little details you come across from Erik Larson's own research. This sounding like chaos Larson still has his book set up with a…

He was playing to the evangelicals in the crowd. The insincerity was dripping from every pore of this man’s body language. Of course, the main writer of “The Art of the Deal”, Brian Schwartz, said that if he were to write the book all over again, he’d title it, “The Sociopath”. What? You thought Trump wrote the book? I would never “personally” say Trump didn’t write it but I hear some are sayin’… (Trump tactic in play). Verse 26 has the Antichrist “coming to his end” as the kingdom is handed…

The short video provided in the prompt is of a man falling onto train tracks in a relatively crowded subway station as a train approaches quickly. To the surprise of many viewers, only one onlooker has the gumption to jump onto the tracks and attempt to save this man from his seemingly certain death. Luckily, the lone responder is able to pull the man off the tracks just in time to help him get out of harms way. If this bystander had not acted in the way that he did, I highly doubt we would be…

Biblical Literary Analysis: Daniel The book of Daniel has been interpreted to have many different themes throughout history. Themes such as power, pride, principles, and convictions have been drawn from the text. However, two themes accurately portray Daniel’s life and his circumstances: God’s faithfulness to His followers through their captivity, and the revelation of His glory. It also has a vision of future redemption and hope. Chapters one through six are characterized by an autobiography…