Ultimately, Charlie’s life is better before his operation. Keyes gives an excellent insight into someone who gets mistreated because of his disabilities. Like Charlie, everyone is born with his or her special characteristics, talents, and flaws. Before his surgery, Charlie has a job that he looks forward to every day. He finds happiness in the smallest benefits in his life. He looks forward to seeing his friends because they make his life a great deal brighter, and make him smile a little more. Although many people attempt to change various aspects of their lives, they should accept who they are and give up their longing for perfection. After all, nobody is made “perfect”, and attempting to achieve such results can lead to unexpected, even
Charlie should have chosen to have had the operation because he got to achieve his ultimate dream, he got to form new relationships, and he was able to contribute new information to others; One argument that can be made for why it was beneficial for Charlie to have the surgery is because he got to live out his dream. Prior to having the IQ increasing procedure done to him, Charlie, was an optimistic and good-hearted man. Unfortunately for Charlie though he was disabled and had a low IQ, this caused Charlie to dream of becoming smart and fit in with others. One quote that can support the claim that Charlie got to achieve his dream of becoming smart is, “Im glad I got a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned alot of things that I never new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel bit (245).
In this novel, Flowers for Algernon, written by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie Gordon has an operation done to increase his intelligence. He started as a mentally retarded man and slowly became a genius. He seemed to soak up information like a sponge and he was able to figure out the most complex scientific formulas. The only problem with the operation is that it does not last for ever and in his remaining time he tries to figure out why it is not permanent. He will eventually lose everything he learned and become worse off than when he started, so Charlie was better off before he had the operation.
Have you ever known anyone one that was slow but became smart? In or story it showed when he was not smart people like him but when he was smart no one liked him anymore. I think that Charlie was better off after the surgery.
Should Charlie have had the operation? In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie isn’t very intelligent. His teacher Mrs. Kinnian thinks he would be good to get to operation. Charlie is willing to lose his personality and everything about him already, just to get an operation that is supposed to make you intelligent. It may be temporary, but he goes for it. If he never had gotten the operation he wouldn’t have lost everything he had, such as his personality and most of all Mrs. Kinnian.
Have you ever wanted to know several languages, be able to learn everything easily, or even have an IQ of at least 200? Charlie Gordon, in the story “Flowers for Algernon,” was a man who had an IQ of 68, but he went through a surgery that made him smarter than his own teacher at a school for the mentally challenged, and his own doctors. Charlie’s IQ was tripled after the surgery once he began to practice different languages as well as the English language. Charlie soon reverted to his former self at the end of the story, and this tripled intelligence that he possessed once before was soon back to the IQ of 68 Charlie had it easier in life after the surgery.
Although he got to experience emotions, the surgery Charlie Gordon had worsened his quality of life because he realized his friends were making fun of him, he could no longer conversate, and he became depressed.
In addition, due to the surgery, Charlie was more aware of his surroundings and he was able to see how people reacted to specific things, and how they treated others. Charlie isn’t “blind” anymore. “It’s a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me (April 18).” Charlie was confused by the phrase “stop pulling a Charlie Gordon”. The surgery opened his eyes to the cruelty
First of all, why Charlie shouldn’t have gotten the surgery is because he started understanding everyone and how they felt. This stressed him out a lot. He felt like he didn't belong with others. “Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I'm ashamed.” (209). In this sentence, Charlie recognizes why his friends liked having him around so much. It was so that they could make fun of him and play tricks on him for their own fun. Also Charlie had felt bad about a kid at a restaurant. “I jumped up and shouted, “Shut up! Leave him alone! It's not his fault he can't understand! He can't help what he is! But for
Now I know what it means “to pull a Charlie Gordon.’’ I’m ashamed.” (Keyes201). He always saw everyone as being his friend and everyone seeing him as an equal. At this moment he saw how people really saw him. For the first time in his life he saw his “friends” for what they really are. Even when Charlie became smart he started to be like everyone else, “I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile, the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please. They were laughing at him because he was mentally retarded, and I had been laughing at him too.” (Keyes207). He had been just like that boy once, and now he’s just like everyone who was laughing at him. He realized that he was becoming like the people who once laughed at him. This opened his eyes to how the world will treat people. It was worth the surgery because he got to experience the other side of
He was right to have the surgery because he gained better reading skills and is still a little more emotionally intelligent even after the surgery because he understands that he had fake friends, and still doesn't want to be laughed at because of his intelligence. Although Charlie lost a lot like Miss Kinnian, who he loved but couldn’t keep because of the different worlds they were in, Charlie also lost some of his ability to read and write as well. In spite of the fact that Charlie lost these things, he can still read and write slightly better than before, and at least he got the experience of love before losing it. Still, he fulfilled his life much more than before, also he learned more than before the surgery; and he remembers some of the knowledge of how to read or write too. Lastly, Charlie should have had surgery because ignorance is not bliss.
The surgery made Charlie see the things his friends did to him. Before Charlie had the surgery people at work picked on him and he didn't understand what was happening “Sometimes somebody will say hey look Joe or Frank or George , he really pulled a Charlie Gordon. I don't know why they say that but i always laff.” (Keyes 227) if Charlie wouldn’t have had the surgery he would have been made fun of and picked an and even hurt by his so called “friends”.
surgery also allowed Charlie to see the world from a brand new perspective. Prior to raising his I.Q. Charlie only saw the simplistic parts of the world, After tripling his I.Q. though he was able to see the world from a new point of view. This change was like looking at a wall, and then seeing every molecule and atom that makes up that wall. The book shows some of his “discoveries” in the quote “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility who would not take advantage of a man born without arms, or legs, or eyes- how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.” (Keyes 237) With this surgery, Charlie was able to gain awareness of the world, and the bullying around him. Without this surgery Charlie would have lived the rest of his life as a walking joke to those around him.
Jack London writes out a great representation of the Naturalism Era. In his story, The Call of the Wild, readers are first introduced to Buck, who is the protagonist of The Call of the Wild. At first, Buck was a normal house dog, doing the occasional hunting and lounging around. His life turned around quickly as the gardener of the home sold him, and that's when the readers are quickly introduced to the tone that London has set for The Call of the Wild as Buck goes through many eye-opening events, eventually getting his call of the wild. Through Bucks portraying the encounters with the wolves, the horrible people he was given to, and the many terrible conditions of the North, London still manages to convey the perfect example of survival of
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