Book Report Flowers For Algernon

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes is not your average book. It is written in a progress report format, and from the point of view of a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon. During the book, you follow Charlie's life before, during, and after he has an operation to make

In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, the author creates a character named Charlie Gordon who has a learning disability. Charlie has a very low IQ and wants to raise it, so when the doctors gave him the opportunity he did all he could to get the surgery. He wants to triple his IQ by getting a surgery that will make him smarter. In this story, Charlie is a determined but frustrated character.

“Flowers for Algernon” contains numerous themes throughout Charlie Gordon’s journey. Charlie Gordon the story’s protagonist is a 32-year-old mentally disabled man who has the opportunity of a lifetime to undergo very special surgeries which will most likely change his life for the better, hopefully. This operation has already been preformed on a laboratory mouse named Algernon, who received astonishing and outstanding results so the doctor is convinced it can alter a human’s disability and help millions of people. The reason Charlie was chosen for this operation is his teacher Miss. Kinnian who said he was a very hard worker and valuable aspect. After the operation Charlie’s intelligence increased rapidly and soon became a genius. Charlie

Daniel Keyes science fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon, is about a man, Charlie Gordon, who is the subject for an experimental surgery to help raise his intelligence. The operation was highly successful for a lab mouse, Algernon, until his intelligence starts to rapidly decline. Unfortunately, the operation ended up being ineffective for Charlie Gordon as well. His IQ drops again and he does not understand what happened and can not remember anything he learned before. Charlie Gordon’s journey started with a surprisingly low IQ with hopes to gain intelligence, surpassing his doctor's intelligence and learning about himself, and ending with the operation failing and him being back to his old self.

“Flowers for Algernon” Essay by Matthew Duran “Flowers for Algernon” contains numerous themes throughout Charlie Gordon’s journey. Charlie Gordon the story’s protagonist is a 32-year-old mentally disabled man who has the opportunity of a lifetime to undergo very special surgeries which will most likely change his life for the better, hopefully.

In the science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon, the main character is a mentally challenged man named Charly. He is a very kind man who works as a janitor at the box factory. However, he feels as if he is held back by his low IQ. Finally he is offered an opportunity to be the first human subject to have a surgery for increased intelligence. After having the surgery, things quickly progress. Charly is suddenly flung into a world where he falls in love, can beat Algernon the mouse in the maze, and remember information quickly. Everything seems to

In the story “Flowers for Algernon” it is written in first person by Charlie Gordon. He is told by Professor Nemur to write progress reports about how he feels about his way of becoming intelligent. He explains that he is thirty-two years old and that he works as a janitor. Also he explains that he is in Ms. Kinnians class for retarded adults. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur want Charlie to have his dream of being smart come true. He is nervous but still excited about the surgery. Days go by and Charlie sees no change. But many see the increase proper vocabulary and grammar. Many of his co workers make fun of him by saying “You pulled a Charlie Gordon” when they do something dumb. He than realizes and begins to explain that he is better than them.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a classic science fiction set in southeastern New York, New York City. The fictitious prose traces a man's inner psychological journey within from a world of retardation to a world of great intelligence. Narrated through a series of empirical "Progress Reports", Flowers for Algernon follows the intellectual and emotional rise and fall of Charlie Gordon, a young man born with an unusually low Intelligence Quotient (IQ), as he becomes the first human pilot-study for an ambitious brain experiment. Charlie Gordon lives a life of comical, despondent and derisive experiences as he surfaces from mental darkness, through various phases of perceiving and understanding levels of knowledge into the light of

The novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is narrated through progress reports written by Charlie Gordon the protagonist of the novel. Novel is based on how people mock mentally challenged people and how people treat others inferior in terms of intelligence. Charlie is a kind hearted mentally challenge person who has a desire of knowledge. He was gave the opportunity to take an operation that will amp his intelligence which was first successful on a lab mouse named Algernon. He take the operation so he can fit into society, make friends, and become more knowledgable. Charlie undergo the surgery and he slowly and then tragically become an genius. The surgery soon takes an negative impact on him. He begins to become bitter and starts to isolate himself as he realizes his friends mocked him for being retarded before operation. Throughout the story Charlie gradually remember his past life such as his mother resented him for being retarded and his sister for being cruel to him. He also dealt with trying to reach emotional maturity to match his soaring intellect. As the story comes to end Algeron starts to regress to his old state and he

A central theme in “Flowers For Algernon” is that you don’t have to change who you are to fit in with others. You can be yourself and still fit in with the crowd. In the text, Charlie wrote “Maybe if I ask him he will tell me how I can think now that Im suppose to get smart. What do smart people think about. Fancy things I suppose. I wish I knew some fancy things alredy” (Keyes 225-226). From the text, I can infer that he wishes he was intelligent already so that he could think about fancy things, such as smart people do. Also, in the text Charlie stated “I said I asked pepul and sumbody told me where I shud go to lern to read and spell good. They said why did you want to. I told them becaus all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb”(pg.

Flowers for Algernon/The Awakening I am doing the compare contrast of ¨The Awakening¨ and ¨Flowers for Algernon¨. Both of the story are of a medical administration or procedure that allows the recipient to become more aware of themselves and others. They both have the same idea but they are distinctly different from each other in the way that one is a mental incapability and the other is of disease related and many other things. In ¨Flowers for Algernon¨ the procedure is of surgical means but in ¨The Awakening¨ is works by chemical stimulation of the brain.I believe they both have the same idea and a couple of the stories end alike but they are different and don’t seem to be the same in many areas.

In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon endures a few emotional obstacles because of his intellectual improvement. In this essay there will be argued that intelligence is not compatible alongside emotional maturity. This statement will be proven by referring to Charlie’s relationships, his desire to create a life he wants and also his happiness and fulfilment.

Imagine a young adult who is struggling in school and they can’t get their grades up. Their scraping the bottom of the bucket C’s and D’s all thee way. They have stopped believing that they can change that but they don't realize that if they only believe that they can

Journey is an expedition to a certain place that is embarked by an individual. As much as it is physical, it is also emotional and imaginative and in the process of embarking on a journey an individual must discover something about themselves or the society. The powerful human spirit is essential for a journey because it is crucial for individuals when overcoming obstacles and allows individuals to explore and recognise the unknown aspects of themselves or the world. This is illustrated in the radio drama ‘Flowers for Algernon’ adapted by Bert Coules and written by Daniel Keyes and in the film ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. In Flowers for Algernon, the protagonist, Charlie embarks on an intellectual journey

“To make a difference, you must be different” The short story,Flowers for Algernon,by Daniel Reyes is about a mentally retarded thirty-seven-year-old man who lives in New York City,named Charlie Gordon. He is a student at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults and his teacher,Ms.Kinnian,has recommended him for an experimental surgery designed to improve his intelligence.Ms.Kinnian has recommended Charlie for this experiment because he really wants to learn more and be as smart as everybody else. The short story “Flowers for Algernon” is composed of the progress reports that Charlie writes.