Comparing Algernon And Charlie's Journey

“I said Miss Kinnian never gave me tests like that one only spelling and reading. They said Miss Kinnian told that I was her bestist pupil in the adult nite scool becaus I tryed the hardist and I reely wantid to lern” -Charlie. Concluding that if you could feel smarter than you are now, would you. That's what Charlie feels like until he has an operation that makes him smart. The theme of this story I think is that people change over time. Like charlie changes throughout the story. In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes Charlie patarys the theme that people changed overtime.

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.

The Union Army was about twice the size of the Confederate Army. Charlie and Henry are two boys who went to war, and went through similar events, but had two different mindsets. Henry was afraid and ran, and was filled with fright. But Charlie was quite the opposite, he wanted to go the war, and he was a strong character. They both came out of the war a changed person. The two soldiers are very similar, but also different characters with different personalities.

Next, the characters between the two stories have many differences. In "Flowers for Algernon" one of the main doctors, Dr. Strauss, is a man while in Charly they are a woman. The characters actions and emotions also differ greatly between the two stories. In Charly Mrs. Kinnian and Charlie both like each other and want to be together while in "Flowers for Algernon" Charlie likes Mrs. Kinnian, but she does not like him back. The characters in the stories have different aspects to their personality.

Sometimes surgery can be necessary to save a life, while other times it is unecessary, and inhumane. Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an extremely low IQ of 68. He is introduced to a lab where they decide that they should test a surgery on Charlie that triples his IQ. This surgery was a mistake. Charlie Gordon shouldn’t have had the surgery to increase his IQ because the surgery is dangerous, the surgery could’ve, and did ware off, and Charlie would be overall happier without the surgery.

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.

“Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today” (Malcom X). In 1965, Charlie Gordon of New York, a 37 year old with an IQ of 68, who is continuously humiliated and judged by people due to his disability, becomes a candidate for an experimental operation performed by Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss after his teacher, Mrs. Kinnian, recommends him. While Charlie’s intelligence increases at a rapid rate, surpassing an IQ of 200, Algernon, a mouse who is previously operated on, begins to exhibit signs of violence and mental deterioration; it is at this point where he realizes his fate. Working day and night, Charlie writes a report titled

It is possible to live without intelligence. Intelligence is important but if you don't have it, then it is fine. You can try to become intelligent by being yourself, but there is no need for getting surgery to get smarter. Charlie shouldn’t have gotten the surgery. He was living happily. He wasn't sad about anything, so he wouldn't need to go through any stress.

The protagonist and author of the progress reports that form the text of Flowers for Algernon. Charlie is a thirty-two-year-old mentally retarded man who lives in New York City. At the start of the novel, he works at Donner’s Bakery as a janitor and delivery boy. Charlie’s friendliness and eagerness to please, along with his childhood feelings of inadequacy, make him the hardest-working student in Alice Kinnian’s literacy class for retarded adults. When Charlie undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence, his IQ skyrockets to the level of a genius. His obsession with untangling his own emotional life and his longing to reach an emotional maturity and inner peace to match his intellectual authority inform many of the novel’s

2. How does Charlie change through the course of the novel? How different is he from the person he is at the beginning of the novel to how he is at the end? Do you consider the novel’s ending to be tragic or inspiring? How so?

In the novel, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Charlie’s newfound intelligence shapes his emotions so that they alter his perspective on his personal relations with people in his life. Charlie’s recognition of his feelings allow him to vaguely express his “love” for Alice. Found on page 76 of the book, Charlie pronounced, “Why haven't I ever noticed how beautiful Alice Kinnian is?” Shortly after he recognized Alice’s appeal, Charlie shares his attraction towards Alice with her on page 80. This indicates Charlie’s confusion between his intellect and emotion because it shows how fast Charlie was to rush into a relationship he was not ready for.

     Algernon the mouse’s condition worsens as a whole, and he finally dies. Charlie sees this as a sigh of doom, and knows that his own time is approaching. He seeks his parents out, and meets his father, but cannot bear to introduce himself. He then meets his sister and his mother, and brags about his accomplishments, makes peace, and continues on.

The Gothic literature’s development is very colorful and the influence is great, because the Gothic has devoted itself to many popular genres and influenced many important writers such as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, as one of the most important writers in American Southern literature, makes very important contribution to the development of the Gothic literature. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most unique writers in America. He stands alone with his aesthetic taste and writing principle, engaged in the morbid theme of nightmare, death, crime and evil. Consequently, he adopts Gothic technique in a composition, taking a full advantage of Gothic subject matter, plot and elements and lingering on violence, murder, insanity and collapse.

This paper will examine the Great Pyramid of Giza during the Fourth Dynasty, the period in which it was built. My purpose for this topic is to not only educate myself further in the humanities of Ancient Egypt but to also get a better understanding of how the art relates to the people and their lives, I will do so by examining how and when The Great Pyramid of Giza and the surrounding pyramids were built, then how the culture of the people at the time influenced the making of the pyramid, and finally I will discuss how my research of the pyramid has influenced my understanding of the culture.

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