The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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…

In the story flowers for Algernon by Dannell key, Charlie is the main character and has a low IQ then gets an operation witch triples his IQ. He found a flaw in the operation had his IQ drops again. In the story you read his journal so you can see how he became smarter and in the order he became smarter and how. Charlie is determined to get smart and never gives up he always went to class, his teacher could tell he was trying hard, and he always did what the doctors told him to do. Charlie is a…

not recognize? Was it worth it? Charlie Gordon is a 32 years old and has the mind of a four year old. He works at a local bakery. He has worked there for 17 years. Charlie has been selected to be part of a science experiment and this is where the real change happens. The head of the science experiment is Prof. Nemur and Burt. They are going to try to get his IQ higher. He is starting to change through the operation that has happened but it happens over a short time period. He is getting…

“Life is like a difficult puzzle, you can try to solve it all, but there’s always gonna be missing pieces” - Anonymous. In the novel, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes shows how being smart can be difficult. Charlie has trouble with his emotions after the operation. Charlie also faces problems in his social life due to his brilliant mind. Therefore, Charlie’s life is more difficult now that he is intelligent. Firstly, Charlie experiences many challenges with his emotions once he becomes…

Progressing, feeling, learning, regressing are what Charlie has been through after the artificial intelligence surgery. In the science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon a 37 year old man with an I.Q. of 68. Charlie was given an opportunity to have the opportunity of a lifetime. Charlie took the opportunity to have the A.I surgery so people would accept him for who he is. He thought that if he had the surgery people will start to like him more. Charlie Gordon's…

Imagine that you were given a decision, a decision that could Chang your life forever, it could take you from your IQ of 68 and triple it. Would you do it ? In "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, a cognitively impaired man named Charlie Gordon with an IQ of 68 undergoes operation that could Change his life forever by tripling his IQ. Charlie has to make this decision with his unitellgentce mind. He was not told all the side effects of the experiment, he was told that it might be temporary.…

Flowers for Algernon is a book by Daniel Keyes. This is about a mentally retarded guy named Charlie Gordon. He is given surgery to try and become smarter. He takes a bunch of different tests before they actually do the surgery. His teacher Ms. Kinnian, from his school for retarded adults recommended him for this testing. After the surgery he started to get smarter and then had some complications. The quote from the novel “The mind in absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end…

With 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…

Jules Verne. In 1818, Mary Shelley decided to take a big step in the development of science fiction by publishing a book called Frankenstein. It is about a scientist who tries to create a human being by using electricity, but he ends up creating a monster. Another well-known science fiction writer is Edgar Allan Poe. He published a story called The Balloon Hoax in 1844. An additional example of a science fiction writer is Jules Verne. One of Jules Verne’s influences was Edgar Allan Poe. Jules…

Russ is a science fiction writer whose greatest work is “The Female Man,” published in 1975. She unfortunately perished April 29th, 2011 after suffering health problems such as back pain and chronic fatigue since the late 80’s (Joanna Russ (1937 - 2011)). Joanna Russ has produced many stories and won many awards for them, and we will…