Charlie Character Analysis

Charlie was better off after the surgery because realized he was in love with Miss Kinnian. On page 128, Charlie says “The thought of leaving her behind made me sad. I’m in love with Miss Kinnian.” In the story, it also shows Charlie realizing how beautiful and how young Miss Kinnian really

Since Charlie had the intelligence operation, his personality changed and he lost some of his likeability factors such as, innocence, warmth, and openness. Before, Charlie was respectful to others, and he never intimidated anyone, but the effects of the operation turned him into a completely different man compared to what he was before he had the operation. When Charlie went to meet Miss Kinnian at the Beekman College, she got mad at him because he changed. She said she felt inferior to Charlie, and admitted that she was pretending to understand his conversation about cultural variants, neo-Boulean mathematics, and post-symbolic logic. (Keyes 86). Also, as Charlie became more and more of a genius, his personality underwent many changes and he felt he was

Charlie is taking part in an experiment to increase his intelligence and was recommended for the operation by his teacher Mrs.Kinnian. he will be the first human being to ever have the operation done, before him is has been tested on mice and the most successful mouse being Algernon, who Charlie grows very fond of.  As his intelligence increases he becomes more aware of his feelings and falls in love with his former teacher Alice Kinnian. Charlie grows resentful of  Professor Nemur because of the way he treats Charlie as if he weren't a person before the operation. Charlie slowly starts remembering

He is functional, but moderately mentally disabled. Charlies main goal is to learn so he can be smart like everyone else. When he was suggested by his teacher for an operation that could make him smarter, he got excited because he actually had a chance. Before the surgery Charlie is completely innocent. Being innocent is defined as simple and naive. He has no experience because he has been under circumstances that did not allow him. He is a generally happy person that values companionship. Charlie sees the good in everybody and is nice to all, even when some are not particularly nice to him. Before the surgery Charlie is very ignorant to the jokes and slurs his “friends” express to him. He always enjoys going to work to see his friends because he likes how they joke around and laugh with him.

Additionally, Charlie now has a chance to be smart. This operation allows Charlie's IQ to triple. Since Mrs.Kinnian suggested Charlie he got a chance to experience true intelligence, and love. After the operation, he was able to comprehend more than the doctors, who were before smarter than him.

After Charlie goes through the surgery to improve his intelligence, he begins to see the world as it truly is. Charlie is not very intelligent. He is aware of his mental deficit and wants to become smart. When asked about the reason he wants the surgery, Charlie states, “I told them becaus all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb (Keyes 286). Charlie, “Cant wait to be smart like my best frends Joe Carp and Frank Reilly (Keyes 290).” Therefore, he was not satisfied with his life before the surgery. Furthermore, Charlie’s mental deficit makes him not very smart about his relationships with his coworkers. He is unaware that his coworkers make fun of him. At first, Charlie believes, “Their really my friends and they like me” (Keyes 289). Others, however, realize that the coworkers aren’t treating Charlie well. Referring to his kind teacher, Charlie says, “I said all my frends are smart people but there good. They like me and they never did anything that wasnt nice. Then she got something in her eye and she had to run out to the ladys room” (Keyes 291). After the surgery, Charlie comes to understand people more and to understand what is a true friend. Charlie later learns, “Now I know what it means when they say ‘to pull a Charlie Gordon.’ I'm ashamed” (Keyes 293). Charlie also sees his doctors in a new light when he says, “It was as if I'd

When Charlie was intelligent he often got irritated at the doctors because they weren’t as smart as him. He had also dealt with a lot of emotion with Miss Kinnian, Charlie was in love with Miss Kinnian. When he regressed, he was embarrassed to see her because he thought she would think he was dumb. When Charlie was at a diner, he saw a kid with disabilities, and everyone was laughing at him and so was Charlie. He was upset with himself that he laughed at him because that kid was him before he had the surgery to make him smart.

Owen Roberts Putman Hour 4 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Charlie Gordon's doctor did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. Ethics is not really what is correct but what is write to do or not. Being ethical is staying in the law requires, it also has to do

When Charlie Gordon had an IQ of 68 he had people who he had relationships with. Although his friends took advantage of his IQ he believed that they were laughing with him which made him very happy. When Charlie Gordon thought his friends were laughing with him he enjoyed going to work and being with his co-workers. Before surgery Charlie Gordon says at a bar that Mr. Donnegan says he is the best janitor he has ever had because he is never late and he has never missed a day (Keyes, progress report 9 April 3rd). After surgery Charlie later does not go to work for 2 months. This really shows how much Charlie’s operation changed his actions. When Charlie was losing his very high IQ he still understood that his co-workers were not his friends which really changed many of his relationships. On top of that Charlie Gordon started to feel feelings for Ms. Kinnian after surgery, before surgery he just saw her as a mentor but after surgery he saw something else. He had felt feelings for her which really made it awkward between them when Charlie lost his high IQ. Charlie Gordon’s relationships with different people change dramatically throughout the book because of his surgery.

When Charlie Gordon took the operation he started to feel and show emotions. First came anger when he saw people treated the boy working in the dinner with no respect. Next came love and happiness when he fell in love with Miss Kinnian and felt full of joy. Finally came sadness when Algernon died he felt sad because Algernon was a friend to him. In the story it said “P.P.S please if you get a chance put some flowers in Algernon’s grave in the backyard” (p.341). Charlie still feels sad that his friend Algernon is dead so he wants to show that he will always remember Algernon as a friend. If it wasn’t for the surgery Charlie would have never felt these

Doctors save many people's lives, they can make their lives even better than they are now. In the short story "Flowers for Algernon," by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon performs an operation to make him a genius. Charlie Gordon is a mentally challenged 37 year old man,

Kinnan because she is the one who signed him up for the operation and when it fails, she feels like it’s her fault he is depressed. She goes to his house and he tells her to go away and that he doesn’t want to see her anymore. It’s hard on him because he started to develop feelings for her, and if it wasn’t for her he would have never had to go through this. “I got up the nerve to ask Miss. Kinnian to have dinner with me tomorrow night to celebrate my bonus.” When he says this he is showing he was brave enough to ask the girl he liked out to dinner. But after Algernon died, he didn’t want to see her

Before he got the surgery, he couldn’t conversate. After it, when his intelligence tripled, he could no longer hold a regular conversation with Ms. Kinnian. That affected the quality of

People treat charly disrespectfully because of his disability and they get away with it because charly does not understand what they mean by you pulled a charly gordon. When charlie gets smarter he begins to understand what's going on and what it means. Charlie got mad at them and himself because of this. He understands why he is like this and he rebels against it

In the beginning, he wasn’t very smart, but he was happy. He didn’t understand things, he didn’t know how to spell, he was childish, but he was happy. The story explains, “ She told me this test and the other one the raw-shok was for getting personalty. I laffed so hard. I said how can you get that thing from inkblots and fotos.” (Keyes, 55) The text explains that he was happy, he can’t spell, and that he is childish. Then when he had the operation, he became so knowledgeable that he lost his friends and wasn’t very happy. Being happy is more important than being intelligent, and Charlie lost his happiness because he wanted to be