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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…

Flowers for Algernon Frederick Douglas believed,“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave”. Knowledge is often something which everyone want to attain in any possible way. In the short story Flowers for Algernon,human engineering is a concept that is spoken about throughout the novel. When the main character , Charlie goes through human engineering he began to experience life in a very different way. Although Charlie’s experience with human engineering seemed very negative at times but,…

knowledge comes power, yet with ignorance comes bliss. Generation after generation, our drive to become well rounded intellectuals and functioning people of society has allowed us to become knowledge hungry. Through this perceptual lens, the author of ‘Flowers for Algernon’, Daniel Keyes, shows the pitfalls of intellectual drive and the power of ignorance through the book’s main character, Charlie Gordon. Charlie, a mentally handicapped man, wants to become intelligent and accepted and is placed…

Have you ever thought about increasing your intelligence? “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is about a 37 year old man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie Gordon has a low IQ of 68 and was involved in an experimental brain surgery to raise his IQ by three times. The experiment was successful in a test subject mouse named Algernon. The experiment proved successful when Charlie slowly started getting smarter and beating Algernon in tests after the operation was performed. Charlie experimented…

I’m finally smart now! The topic I am writing about is about about a man who is not a smart. The story is called “Flowers for Algernon”. The author of the story is Daniel Keyes. The man's name is Charlie Gordon and since he is not very smart two doctors are gonna do an experiment and an operation on him to make him smarter. They are using a mouse named Algernon to compare him to in the experiment. My opinion is that he should not have got the operation because it kinda backfires. One reason I…

Flowers for Algernon, a superhuman science fiction novel published in the late 1950s, is a work of literature that is rich in multiple themes related to the topic of the mentally disabled: their treatment, their purpose in society, their inner feelings… Daniel Keyes, a man with experience in the company of mentally disabled individuals through his prior position as a teacher, writes this novel where, Charlie Gordon, the main character, is a mentally deficient adult who undergoes an experiment,…

In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes the main character Charlie Gordon’s intelligence and personality were affected dramatically by an operation. Before the operation, Charlie was extremely sociable and had many friends but, now he Doesn't have any friends due to the fact that he is Extremely intelligent his vocabulary is way above the average. Charlie’s intelligence also increased due to the fact that he can now do so many things he couldn’t do before and, he can now understand…

Flowers for Algernon is by Daniel Keyes. It examines the life of a young man named Charlie Gordon, who had a surgery to expand his intelligence. The book discusses Charlie’s emotional life and physical life before and after the surgery. For Charlie, ignorance is bliss because he would never know how poorly people were treating him. In the book, Charlie has different friendships that mean different things to him. If Charlie were ignorant, he wouldn’t have to try to discover how to handle…

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…

‘Flowers for Algernon,' written in 1958 by Daniel Keyes, is a short science fiction story about a mentally disabled protagonist called Charlie Gordon. Charlie, who is a 37-year-old man, due to his eagerness to learn, receives the opportunity to increase his intelligence through an experimental surgery. Following the experimental process, Daniel Keyes uses the techniques of the juxtaposition of events such as the thematic apperception test, as well as changes his writing style’s literacy skills…