Charlie Gordon's Surgery

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, who is trying to become smart. Being mentally challenged has been hard for Charlie, but this is his chance to forever change his life. The experiment was an incredible thing for Charlie because he realized he is in love with Miss Kinnian, figured out the flaw in the experiment, and got the experience of what it is like to be smart.

Charlie Gordon, a mentally compromised man, should not have received the surgery to increase his numerical intelligence-as judged by an IQ-and to become a normal man. While Daniel Keyes in “Flowers for Algernon” conveyed hope for psychologically impaired individuals, the surgery failed with countless devastating consequences. In all actuality, the complications that Charlie faced were genuine. As far as society was concerned, Charlie-having a lesser IQ than the average person-was regarded as unacceptable. The surgery was seen as a cure for this; nevertheless, it did not amount to any change in the way he was treated. Harnessing the insights from Algernon’s case and his own cognitive abilities, Charlie deciphered the effects and predicted the

Charlie Gordon was an eager, hardworking man. He had a job and, a place to live. There was one thing "wrong" with him- he had a very low IQ score . He wanted nothing more then to be smart. What could be wrong with that? Charlie Gordon's doctors did not act ethically when they preformed the surgery to make him smarter. Ethics are rights, obligations and fairness. The are also based on ideas and what is right or wrong.

Charlie Gordon had a surgery that changed his life but many thought he was better before his surgery or after his surgery but I will be telling you my perspective on his surgery. Although Charlie was not as smart as others many people liked him before his surgery and others liked him after his surgery. Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man who is not as smart as others but his life is about to change after he has a surgery that will make him smart but it only lasts for a few months and then it goes away and he ends up going to home for special needs. My essay will be about if Charlie was better before his surgery or after.

Sometimes one decides upon something that is not the best decision. One is blinded by the positive aspects but does not keep in mind the consequences that he/she might have to face. These decisions result in a horrible outcome or product. This relates to a thirty-seven-year-old man named Charles Gordon who is mentally challenged. He wants to become intelligent like his friends at the factory. Therefore, Charles decides to get a surgery done which will triple his Intelligence Quotient. This surgery has already been tried on a mouse named Algernon, making him the most intelligent mouse in history. Without seeing any complications in the surgery, the doctors carry out the experiment surgery on Charles Gordon. In the end, Charles Gordon was happiest before the surgery.

What if you had an IQ lower than the average person? Well, Charlie Gordon only had an IQ of 68. Charlie was a little bit slower than everyone else and he wanted to be smarter. He was made fun of being slow, but he didn’t realize it. So he went to a school that had doctors who were going to experiment on Charlie to make him smarter; which made Charlie happy. After the experiment, Charlie had an IQ of over 200. Charlie was better after the experiment.

Charlie Gordon, a once naive but curious boy grew up with the obsession of becoming smart. As a child, Charlie’s mother gave him the mindset that he would never be as smart as all the other kids because he was considered different. This obsession and negative mindset is what motivates Charlie to push himself and makes sure that one day he can become as smart as everyone else. In addition, the key past event that ultimately changes Charlie’s mind set is when he underwent surgery that promised him a higher IQ. From this moment on, Charlie was a completely different person. Due to Charlie becoming smarter, he would soon find out that intelligence comes with a price. Charlie Gordon’s conflict with an experiment that makes him smarter teaches the reader that intelligence does not always bring positive outcomes in life through Charlie losing his job/coworkers, losing those close to him, and being depressed due to being smarter than everyone else.

Gordon doesn’t feel any smarter. He carries out his daily activities. He had to go to the “hospital” everyday after work. As he is writing his progress reports, he has his spelling improved by a lot. He is now realizing some things. When he was on his way to see Dr. Strauss, he realized that the so called hospital was a laboratory. They had been experimenting on animals and all these things going

Emily was not the smartest pencil in the drawer, and she always made other people laugh by her stupidity. However, later she realized that they took the laughter and made it into jokes about her and were actually always making fun of her. Charlie Gordon wanted to become smart like other people so he had a risky surgery on his brain, but the surgery worked for period of time and after a while he started to lose progress and fall back to where he started, so Charlie became a recluse for the rest of his minimal days. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, Daniel Keyes, the author, portrays the theme, Because of compassion, positive and/or negative consequences can occur.

Charlie Gordon, experienced an improvement after the surgery. In the beginning, Charlie carried a sense of emptiness, and wanted to expand his growth of knowledge. Luckily, Gordon was favored by a teacher named Miss Kinnian who vouched for Gordon to do the surgery. Through vigorous testing, Charlie was finally able to go through with the experimental surgery. After the surgery, Charlie experienced a great awakening towards his life. Gordon was finally able to see through the eyes like others around him. All things considered, Gordon relished in the moment of being intelligent, though he didn’t realize that it wasn’t going to last.

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

Charlie like Miss D were not helpless and Charlie had his own job and went to night school, but he was never able to do overly complicated things and was made fun of may times by what he thought were his friends. Like Miss D charlie was given the chance to undergo a experimental surgery to increase his intelligence to be like his peers he went through with it and just like Miss D he stared with no noticeable effects though a couple of weeks of learning charlie slowly became more and more like his friends but instead of stopping there he went further and further were there seemed to be no bounds. He became a genius in I.Q but was still naive about some things he was fired from his old job but started working for the clinic that gave him his Intelligence. He was doing great and was expanding his reach but eventually he stopped learning so much and progress slowed to a stop, and began to fall backwards like a ball throw in the air falls back down. Charlie desperately wanted to stay smart and like Miss D

Charlie Gordon was a mentally retarded thirty-two-year-old man, who was chosen by a team of scientists to take part in an experimental surgery designed to boost his intelligence. Charlie worked at Donner’s Bakery in New York City as a janitor and delivery boy. The other employees would often taunt Charlie, but Charlie was unable to understand that he was being made fun of. He believed that his co-workers were good friends, but they were not. Charlie would go to school at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults, and that is where he met Alice Kinnian. Alice Kinnian was his teacher, and she noticed that he was different from all of her students. Charlie was eager to learn. So, Ms. Kinnian recommended Charlie to undergo the surgery.

In this novel you meet a very important man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie suffers from a mental disability and has a very low IQ. He wants to become smart so that he can fit in with others and not feel like such an outsider. In this novel you go through Charlie’s experiment to become a genius and overcome his disability. Charlie has faced a rough childhood. His mother always thought he would turn out to be normal and would punish him harshly when he would do something that was not normal. His life all changed when he was chosen to take some tests and be considered for an experiment that would change his life forever and grant his wish to be smart. He keeps track of his progress through reports and you see a dramatic change in Charlie Gordon eventually after his operation. He becomes a genius and you get to witness the changes he goes through and how his newly acquired knowledge affects him. This novel provides many lessons that will give you a new perspective on life.

Charlie Gordon is a thirty seven year old man with an IQ of sixty eight, who undergoes an operation to improve his intelligence. He becomes friends with the lab mouse, Algernon, because they both went through the same operation. Charlie races against Algernon in an intelligence maze to see if Charlie’s IQ has improved. With the help of Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, and Ms. Kinnian he learns how to use his tripled intelligence for science. Along the way, he learns that his current friendships are not what they seem. His so called “friends” constantly make fun of him due to his lack of intelligence. After he went through the operation, he realized that his “friends” were not actually his friends. On the contrary, they just like having him around to