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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…

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…

was for the good of science, but many others can argue otherwise. The argument has arisen because of the side effects of the operation, the fact that the Ethics of Fieldwork were not followed, and the unfortunate death of Charlie. The short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Scientists performed an operation to possibly triple the IQ of the test subject: Charlie. The doctors had good reason for the operation, but when they chose Charlie as the test subject, it was a not a good…

Daniel Keyes science fiction story, “Flowers For Algernon, ” takes place in New York and is about Charlie Gordon. He is a 37-year-old but is not very intelligent. His dream is to become smarter. It is all he can wish for. Charlie is tired of not understanding others and is sick of not fitting in with them. He only has a few real friends who respect and care about him. When Charlie gets asked by scientists to have an operation on his brain, he jumps at the idea. He is relieved and overly excited.…

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…

Chuck Close is a famous artist. He takes pictures people, then paints them. He has been drawing from a long time. He has a different technique for doing his paintings. He has trouble remembering faces of people, but that doesn’t stop him from doing what he loves. Chuck was born July 5, 1940. When Chuck was younger, he had dyslexia, which is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret, words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general…

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be 37 and have an IQ of 68? In the story “Flowers For Algernon,” this was Charlie Gordon life and he wanted it to change. He made a decision to have an operation done to his brain that changed his life. Charlie’s decision to have this surgery was a bad idea because he found out who his really friends were, died faster, and also didn’t want to become dumb again. After the operation took place, Charlie started to realize lots of things that the old Charlie…

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…