Book Report Flowers For Algernon

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

“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

“Flower for Algernon” is an outstanding story about a Man named Charlie Gordon with an I.Q. of 68, and a small white mouse named Algernon who can beat Charlie in any maze. The story begins when Charlie's Support teacher, Miss Kinnian, advise Charlie to do an experiment that Dr.Nemur and Dr.Strauss believe that a surgical operation could possibly have Charlie's I.Q. raise up triple the amount it was once before. In the beginning, it was a thank took months for success to happen in the experiment.However, the success was only temporary. Charlie with once with an I.Q. of a genius know back to his original self.

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 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 him smarter. It contains a lot of themes, but the theme that stuck out the most was both harm and good can come from technology.

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

“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 performed 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 asset. After the operation, Charlie’s intelligence increased rapidly and soon became a genius. Charlie was asked to keep progress reports of his personal experiences and as he gets smarter he improves in grammar, spelling, and wordplay. However, all actions have consequences, the first side effect are flashbacks to Charlie’s childhood, which contain emotional and depressing events, the second side effect is a lack of social skills this could be the operation or not, but it certainly increased after the surgery, this shows when Charlie tries to make new friends or keep old ones but no one understands him and when people don’t understand something they get scared and destroy it or back off. The only true friend Charlie had was Miss. K, which soon became his girlfriend. After a few weeks 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.

In this essay I am writing of intelligence and how it is in correlates to the book Flowers for Algernon. My main points of this essay are to identify the effects if knowledge. I believe that our society today we do not put enough importance on intelligence. Learning can both benefit and harm us mentally. With intelligence, we can be a genius but happy at the same time.

Would you take the chance to get a higher I.Q.? Yes you would get good grades and pass the test, but you would have trouble communicating with other people. You would have trouble having “normal” conversations. In this science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon,”by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon gets A.I. surgery to increase his I.Q. of 68. Charlie should not have the A.I. surgery. After Charlie got the A.I. surgery, he got depression, he started to give up, and he had emotional breakdowns. This is why Charlie Gordon should NOT have the A.I.

Did you know you could have a surgery to make you smarter? Charlie Gordon did, and accepted an offer to have the surgery performed on him in the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. Charlie Gordon was not accepted by many people because of his low intelligence level and inability to communicate well. He wanted A.I (artificial intelligence) so he could be considered normal or smart. Charlie’s life was greatly improved after the A.I. surgery. Charlie realized his “friends” were not really friends. Also he developed better social skills and got to experience new emotions such as love.

The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won’t ridicule him for being slow again. Daniel Keyes wrote this short story for good reasons. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an outside look on how we treat mentally challenged people. When you treat people as you always do, you don’t see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to

Flowers for Algernon is a novel written by Daniel Keyes and first published in 1966. It was originally a short story and, in the year 2000, was adapted into a film of the same name.

Society has become a shallow place. If an individual does not fit into societies form of the normal person then they are treated differently. But does society treat those who are different in a negative or positive way? In the novel Flowers for Algernon, the author Daniel Keyes shows an in depth look at the treatment of individuals in today's society. Firstly society tends to discriminate against those whose IQ does not fit into the norms of our society. The physically handicapped in today's world are not considered to be "equal" as those who fit into the normal physical appearance, Keyes portrays this through Charlie's thoughts while in the café. Although animals are not technically humans society treats them in ways which no human would

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.