Strength Of Belonging In Daniel Keyes's Flowers For Algernon

Despite the amount of traumatising murders Charlie comes across, he is determined to understand people that are different from himself, providing him with a sympathetic and compassionate personality. Charlie's efforts to understand the minds of others does not go to waste as he successfully learns in-depth details about Jack Lionel "I don't know who this man is, but he didn't kill anybody. I've done everything wrong. Mad Jack Lionel isn't a criminal. He's probably not even mad. He's just old and sad and poor and lonely" (Charlie Bucktin p234). Through the sympathetic side of Charlie, a softer and more vulnerable component has been added to the novel, expressing Charlie's curiosity towards understanding Jack. A transition between Charlie regarding someone as dangerous and cruel compared to a harmless and nostalgic man is clear throughout chapter seven of the novel as Charlie begins to develop a further and deeper understanding of Jack's personality traits and motives. Instinct is a powerful aspect of the novel as it begins to delve into the innocence of the mind of Charlie when he originally assumes the worst of Jack before having a moment of realisation where Jack is no longer the criminal but instead a lonely, old man. After evaluating the multiple aesthetic features that constructed this particular novel, the innocence, understanding and sympathetic components are highlighted and contributed to the description of Charlie as a typical

Charlie’s friendship with Jasper Jones, his parents, and witnessing the intolerance of Corrigan are the three biggest factors in Charlie's development from innocence to experience. Jasper Jones exposed him to fear and forced him to be brave and face his fears, the rampant intolerance in Corrigan, both racial and otherwise, exposed him to the injustices of the real world, and his relationship with his parents taught him to be diplomatic and control his

Throughout the novel, the Character Charlie Bucktin has been constructed to highlight how innocence can shield us from the true corruption and immorality present in the world around us. In the beginning, Charlie represents innocence and obliviousness, traits that at the time came naturally to a ‘well off’ middle class white Australian. Silvey has constructed Charlie to be well read and well educated, a trait which in turn allowed him to view society in a way far beyond the era he lived in; in a way Charlie represents the change and non-discriminatory outlook to come in future years. However, because of his well-sheltered background, Charlie remains for the most part,

The author uses communication style as a method of character development, which the author utilized to build Charlie Gordon’s character. Throughout the book, Charlie’s communication changes from when his IQ is merely 68 to when the surgical procedure raises his IQ to 125. Initially, his grammar is full of errors and simple vocabulary but later improved drastically, after the procedure, by use of complex wordings (Allan 31). The communication style is different between the two phases especially through differentiated personalities and speech between two periods. Daniel Keyes also endeavors to capture the character’s history to enable the audience to understand the events that shape Charlie’s personality.

This entire book highlights both the high and low points in Charlie’s life, and how he changed and has not changed all from his constant value of friendship to his many realizations, based on the one experimental surgery that gave him insight on what life would be like if he was “normal”.

Charlie was a man that did not know how to stand up for himself. He allowed his peers to bully him, and treat him like he is worthless. Charlie thinks that if he allows people to laugh at him, and tease him, they will become his friend. He thinks “Its easy to make frends if you let

“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.

Now to illustrate Craig Silvey’s construction of Charlie, his gradual moral evolution can be metaphorically depicted in an ethological social hierarchy – a wolf pack. Yes, you heard me right. Just like how an innocent wolf cub listens to the pack, Charlie initially follows the prominent morality and beliefs of Corrigan. As a wolf matures, it challenges the members of its pack {start fake howling}, similar to how Charlie challenges the conventional morality of the town. Eventually, Charlie can be represented as an alpha

These points of interest propose that there is much more to Charlie than at first meets the eye. For example, he oftentimes specifies his uncommon want to "get shrewd," a detail that reemerges when Charlie hears the specialists say his inspiration as the reason he has been decided for the test. Charlie unmistakably represents his inspiration through his propensity for recording words he doesn't have the foggiest idea, for example, "Brain science LABORATORY" and "Topical APPERCEPTION TEST." Furthermore, Charlie's comments that his mom empowered his instruction as a kid yet would likewise hit him for lying start to allude to the perplexing idea of Charlie's association with Rose. This mother-child relationship gives a significant part of the shrouded inspiration for Charlie's activities, and the novel investigates it in incredible profundity later, as Charlie recuperates overlooked recollections of his

Imagine working to become intelligent, then having an operation to become intelligent, and then losing it all in the blink of an eye; motivation and intelligence, what matters more? Motivation matters more due to the fact that it can get one farther in life because it pushes to do amazing things. Intelligence is not always the answer but it can be effective when used with motivation or as a result of motivation. Charlie’s motivation shows he is working to become intelligent, finish his research, and stay intelligent. Without intelligence where would the world be?

Charlie saw the societal conflicts as he grew more intelligent. As Charlies IQ nearly tripled he saw how society treated people like Charlie. At the restaurant scene Charlie saw how society treats people like him; how they would take advantage of someone with a mental disability. A lot became clear

I say this because based on the situation in the story, a man who so dearly wants to be smart has to do something he may not want to because of limited opportunity. Charlie is somewhat forced to be a janitor at a plastic bottle company, which I can imagine is not something he would want to participate in if it wasn’t for his ‘friends.’ We as the audience also see that Charlie wants to be smart and normal when he states on page four,‘‘ I’m going to try my best to be smart.” This quote shows how desperate Charlie wants to be smart and how harsh it must be for him to get the explanation that he cannot be exactly what he wants to in life. This is practically unfair, yet if we adjust his mental capacity we may be able to get Charlie to reach his dreams.

In the story, Flower for Algernon I loved how the author, Daniel Keyes used language, grammar and voice to describe the feeling and development of the character. Keyes does a great job of using simple ideas and words to convey complex topics. One of the sentences that the author used, i felt, created meaning beyond the simple words. On page 10, Charlie says, “I'm in love with Miss Kinnian.” Instead of using large words, such as, “Miss Kinnian is absolutely gorgeous” or “Miss Kinnian is honey to my heart” or some other cheesy, cliche statement, Keyes simply writes, ““I'm in love with Miss Kinnian.”

Many conflicts occur all throughout the book that effect Charlie and other characters in different ways. One major internal conflict is a self to self with Charlie Gordon becoming bright and showing everyone that he could do it and that he was determined to achieve his dream of becoming intelligent one day. But, he is having this self inflicted struggle because he is being two sided with himself. One on hand, he wants to be brilliant and reach his goal and achieve it. On the other hand, so many people lower his self esteem and confidence, which brings him down.

Even from the beginning, Charlie was seen as a rebel against conformity. In Mr. Keating’s example in the courtyard of “finding your own stride”, he takes it a step further by not walking. Charlie is enthusiastic in