Charlie Gordon's Flowers For Algernon

As a human being, each one of us goes through birth, life, and death. Charlie and Equality both had a difficult start in their life, not only did they not know proper grammar, but through their whole life they've been bullied. They didn't understand the meaning of human being until they went through solutions. In the books of Flowers of Algernon and Anthem, the kind of human being Charlie expects to be is to increase his intelligence, desire to reach an emotional maturity, and Equality wanting to be an individual as to himself, not as collectivism.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman. Charlie Gordon is a very welcoming, playful, and genuine man. He attends Beekman College for Retarded Adults and has a strong motivation to learn and to improve his intelligence. He dreams of being popular, and making friends. Throughout the novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon changed in many ways. Prior to his life changing operation, he was not able to grasp that the people at Donner’s Bakery were not his friends, they only spoke to him to make fun of him. Charlie acknowledged their harsh actions, and started retaliating. Charlie is a very open

Before the enhancing surgery, Charlie Gordon seemed to have depend and trust others, while those people didn’t have his back. This could be a problem in the future, because people have to learn to be independent so when they lose someone important, they don’t crack under pressure. In the story, Keyes writes, “Sometimes somebody will say hey look at Joe or Frank or George he really pulled a Charlie Gordon. I dont know why they say that but they always laft” (Keyes, 289). Daniel Keyes uses dramatic irony as a way of displaying Charlies perception of his friends. Charlie assumes he has very nice friends, but the audience knows that his

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.

He wears glasses but only for watching T.V. and movies. Charlie has a great motive because all he wants is to be smart for example, "After the operashun I'm gonna try to be smart. I'm gonna try awful hard. (p.11)". Charlie, being intellectually disabled, doesn't understand things, making him constantly happy. This is because he doesn't think about life. Charlie gets bullied but thinks they're being nice to him when they do things like "He really pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. I don't know why they say it but they always laff and I laff too. (p.23)". After the operation, he had a different outlook on life. He wanted to become smart so that he could talk with his coworkers about intelligent things like politics. Although, the operation made him too smart. His way of thinking was based on facts and intelligence, rather than emotion, feelings and instinct. Charlie was a genius and they weren't. He didn't know how to control his emotion because he never knew he had them, often making him go into depression and be

I believe that Charlie is happier when he is less intelligent before the operation. You know the saying ignorance is bliss? That's what I think this is. Sometimes when I get bored I think about things. This is one of them. Would you rather be happy and not know something bad is happening? Or would you rather be unhappy and know that something bad is happening. Charlie was happiest before the operation. He didn't know that his "friends" weren't really his friends. He didn't know that his whole work place was making fun of him. He was happy though. Then he was intelligent, and knew what everyone was doing, he wasn't happy. He knew his "friends" weren't his friends. He knew everyone makes fun of him. He wasn't happy. In fact, he was so upset that

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.

* Students should work through the idea that different levels of intelligence, emotional and intellectual, lead to different types of interactions with people and society.

I think that Charlie was happier before her had the operation. I think this because when he was unintelligent he never knew what people were laughing at when he was at work. Before the operation, Charlie didn't know that Joe and the rest of the workers were making fun of him and laughing at him, not with him. He also never understood the meaning of "You pulled a Charlie Gordon", he never thought that it was insulting it, he just laughed along with it because he didn't understand. For example when he finally figured out that he was just being used by his co-workers for amusement, he became very upset. It was almost like he liked it better when he didn't know. For example, when Joe and Charlie writes in his progress report, "Now I know what they

As stated above, this humiliation that he has been experiencing has caused him to lose his confidence in himself. This is proved when Charlie writes about his conversation with Miss Kinnian. He writes: “I tried to make a conversation with Miss Kinnian but no matter how much I tried to talk at the same level as her I always brought up psychology in the process. I am having great difficulty in making friends.” This quote proves that after the surgery that Charlie took to triple his intelligence made him find it difficult to make friends after he became aware of this humiliation that he has been experiencing. It

Many people think of change, like hey, that man needs to grow up, he acts like a kid. In the story, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys, Charlie Gordon wanted change too. He was a 32 year old with an intellect of 68 (he is mentally impaired) and his parents got a divorce when he was a kid and lived with his uncle until he was seventeen. When he was in his early thirty’s, an opportunity to get brain stimulation surgery was presented to him to help make him smart. The overall theme for this story should be changed. To begin, Charlie was presented an opportunity he could not turn down. Charlie had received word that he could have a second chance of getting brain stimulators. Dr. Strauss instructed Charlie to write down everything that happened

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 was a beautiful story that really spoke to me on many levels. Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man with a learning disability, struggles to read and write. He works at a factory as a janitor, and is verbally abused by his colleagues, though he is too dumb to understand that and assumes they are his friends. He normally attends an adult center to learn how to better his reading and writing skills. One day, he gets accepted to be experimented on by doctors at a local lab; as a result, his intelligence was greatly increased.

Flowers for Algernon the two main characters a mouse named Algernon and a young man named Charlie Gordon a thirty-two year old who has a very low I.Q. of sixty-eight from any other thirty-two year old man. Charlie Gordon works at Donner’s Bakery Charlie isn’t just any oh employer Charlie has very poor Intelligence Quotient. And he knows that he is different from everybody else, that’s why he has being seeing Dr.Strauss about is condition. What can he do to make his I.Q the same as everyone else? Charlie’s intelligence is an important role of Dr.Strauss and Prof.Nemur to, be able to perform this important surgery on him. He writes seventeen progress reports. Charlie Gordon is not just a thirty-two year old man that works at Donner’s bakery.

Dilemmas happen everyday. Some dilemmas can be good, and some can be bad. A dilemma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives.  In the story, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes wrote a story about a 37 year old man named Charlie  who has a disability, he doesn't understand thing that normal people can. He then is encouraged by his teacher to get a surgery done to become smarter. Some people think that the surgery was a good idea,or some think it was a bad idea. In my opinion, I think that Charlie made the wrong decision about the surgery. Some people think that Charlie should of have the operation to make his dream come true In my opinion, I think he shouldn't have had the surgery because, people weren't expecting him to be new, it would not be permanent, and he put his life in danger.