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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” - Ernest Hemingway. In the book, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, the protagonist, has low mental ability. This story takes place in the 1960s, and during this time period, people used different ways to measure intelligence. Charlie faces the decision to artificially increase his intelligence by having a surgery performed on him. Intelligence is not worth it when your happiness is at risk. Charlie Gordon should…

Flowers for Algernon “Ignorance is bliss.” ~ Thomas Gray Realization happens in only two ways; all at once, or slowly; there is but one feeling that you feel. Regret. If one were given the choice of eating the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge or of living in blissful ignorance, what would they choose? A very curious question in its origin and idea. Thinking too much will delve into the realm of “what if”, rather than pushing that thought away and indulging in the simple pleasures…

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…

Charlie Gordon is the main character in the story “Flowers for Algernon”. He’s a 37 year-old adult with an IQ of 68. He is mentally challenged but he desperately wants to be smart. Charlie is asked to have a surgery that the doctors think will make him smarter but the results are not guaranteed. Charlie will do anything to gain more intelligence and therefore agrees to have the surgery and take part in the scientists’ experimentation on him and his advances. Charlie’s surgery does in fact…

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…

‘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…

“We live in a painful world, no doubt about it. But let me tell you this: The ONLY disability in life... is a bad attitude. A positive attitude is the most combatant to life’s misfortune” (Matthew Jeffers). Charlie Gordon lives in New York and has an I.Q. of 68 at the age of 37 and two doctors, Professor Harold Nemur and Dr. Strauss, are conducting an experiment, in 1965, to boost Charlie’s intelligence. Charlie is operated on after Algernon, a white lab mouse, begins to show signs of…

Intelligence versus Happiness The ability to apply and acquire knowledge and skills versus a feeling of pleasure or showing contentment. Charlie Gordon is a 32- year- old science fiction character by Daniel Keyes in his novel Flowers for Algernon. Charlie was born with a brain disability where he can’t comprehend things. He had lots of life troubles when he was a kid. When he grew up and became an adult, his dream was to become “smart”. So, he volunteered to be a…

Having intelligence can change you- sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, a 37 year-old mentally challenged man, undergoes an operation to make him more intelligent. Charlie was unknowingly chosen to be the lab rat in an experiment to see if a certain operation could help mentally disabled beings become smarter. After he underwent this operation, Charlie was brilliant, but as time went on his brilliance started…

The movie Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings are both the same in some areas and then different in other areas The movie Awakenings is about a doctor named Oliver Sacks and a patient named Leonard. Leonard who survived the encephalitis epidemic now has a brain Syndrome which allows him to be in a catatonic state. After Dr. Sacks many hours of research he came across the totally new drug at the time L- Dopa. L- Dopa would allow the patients using it to come out of the catatonic state they were…