Flowers

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…

Charlie’s Journey Flowers for Algernon is a novel conveying a life story and lesson of a man name Charlie Gordon. Charlie is not an average human he has special needs. A college he goes to name Beekman University is being funded to do an experiment on him to make him smart.The professor at the college professor Nemur and Doctor Strauss, conduct the surgery and tests his intelligence against a mouse named Algernon. In this novel the protagonist charlie is faced with a challenge to prove his…

The story, "Flowers for Algernon, is about a boy named Charlie Gordon, who is thirty-seven years old and has a mental disability. He had gotten a surgery, which helped him become smarter, and the surgery turned out to be a success. But he also found out that the surgery was temporary. Charlie Gordon was better off before the surgery. Charlie was more gleeful at the beginning of "Flowers for Algernon." He had friends at the beginning of the story, Frank Reilly, and Joe Carp. Charlie had…

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to be trapped inside your own body? Or to have an IQ of 68? These fantasies were realities for Leonard Lowe and Charlie Gordon. Charlie is a 37 year-old man with an IQ of 68 who dreams of being smart. He is picked for an operation to become smart and goes through with it, but who knows if it will work? Leonard Lowe was put into a catatonic state at age 11 because of a disease called encephalitis. He is discovered by Dr. Sayer who puts him on the L-Dopa…

Tung Bui Putman Hour 1, 6 15 November 2016 Argument Paper What is ethic? Ethic refers to standards of right or wrong that a person ought to do. Ethic also refers to the development of one's ethical standard( feelings, laws, social). The story "flower of Algernon" is about a man that had the IQ of 68 named Charlie. Despite of his lacking of intelligences, Charlie's doctors and his teacher, Miss.Kinnian, convinced him to take a operation to get smarter. Charlie Gordon's doctors didn't act ethical…

The Costs of the Special Operation Imagine that there was a way to take an IQ of 68 and triple it to 203. In the story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie goes through a special operation that causes his IQ to triple! He is a 37 year old man who has trouble spelling, reading, and more. His IQ used to be 68, that is, until he went into the special operation that caused it to triple to 203. Along the way, he goes through tests and one test is a maze against a mouse named…

In the story “Flowers for Algernon” a man named Charlie undergoes an operation that will make him smarter. It starts out fine but things suddenly start going down hill. It seemed like the smarter Charlie got, the unhappier he became. Charlie thought that him being smart would make him happier, but as the story goes on he realizes he was very wrong. As soon as the operation started to take affect, Charlie started to see the world for what it really was. He noticed things about people that he…

him the day before. “You will understand that being the smartest person you know won’t work out well emotionally.” I ended up hooked, in tears, and a completely changed person after reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The movie adaption, Charly, directed by Ralph Nelson, was far less moving. Flowers for Algernon is on a higher caliber than Charly, for being more personal, allowing you to get to know the characters better and excluding all of the scientific points that the movie brings…

“All my life I wanted to be smart.” When Charlie Gordon was offered a chance to get smarter, he took it—without realizing that there were any dangers or side effects of that operation. In the fictional story Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes creates the theme that if one tampers with natural humanity, especially for petty approval, consequences will occur. Algernon demonstrates the theme, showing how his change affected others in the story. Unnatural changes don’t always forge positive impacts.…

Everyone wants to be smart, but for Charlie Gordon it meant so much more. In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie Gordon was a mentally challenged man who had the chance of a lifetime. Charlie was lucky enough to have an Artificial Intelligence surgery that later tripled his I.Q. of only 68, making him a genius. He was able to do great things with his intelligence. It was a great idea for Charlie to have the surgery because he got to experience what it felt like to be…