Differences Between Flowers Of Algernon Movie And Short Story

2) In this novel flowers for Algernon Charlie’s story is being told on how the first human to be operated on to boost his intelligence is progressing and adapting to his new life. Norma Gordon’s Charlie’s sister story isn’t being told because Charlie doesn’t really know his sister and they live in different cities. And Charlie mother Rose story isn’t told either because he only has bad memories of her.

     The characters are totally different in the two versions. The short story’s main characters are a family; a husband, a wife, and two children. The film’s characters are a woman and a man, and the man’s mother and younger sister.

Flowers For Algernon and Charley have the same characters for the most part. Charlie/Charley is the main character of both works, with the exception of a petty spelling difference that in the film it is spelt as Charley rather than Charlie. Mr. Gordon’s occupation of Flowers For Algernon and Charley are quite disparate. For example, in the condensed version of Flowers For Algernon Charlie works in a plastic manufacturing factory. While in the 1968 film Charley works in a bakery. Both in the book and film Algernon portrays a very witted and agile mouse. There is no differences of Algernon within the book or film. In addition Ms.Kinnian is still the same character which is Charlie’s/Charley’s teacher. The book and film both have Dr.Strauss and

Flowers for Algernon is a story with hope, humor, defeat, sadness, and disappointment. Charlie is your average joe with a mental disability. He writes through a series of journal entries about his journey of coming out of the darkness of ignorance and into the bright light of intelligence. At the beginning of his trek, he was working hard to become smarter on his own but was chosen for a experimental surgery that makes people smarter. He underwent the operation and gradually his intelligence surpassed his teachers. Unfortunately the effects were not permanent and Charlie digressed into the person that he once was, knowing he was going to die like his mouse friend Algernon. He moved to New York and It is assumed that

One of the differences is the father. In the short story the father is not involved in Connie’s life as much as he should be. “Their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He did not t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). They changed in role in the movie. He is more involved in her life in the movie. He talks to Connie about her and her mother's relationship, he is concerned about Connie being on the side of the road, and he tried to steer Connie in the right direction.

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.

Flowers for Algernon is about a man named Charlie who is mentally slow and not smart. Charlie had an operation to make him smart. What the doctors did was unethical.

Both Flowers for Algernon and the Garden of Eden are both similar as they both thought biting from the tree of knowledge would bring them intelligence. In the beginning of the story of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was blessed with happiness, but always desired to be smart. Just like the story the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve did not necessarily wanted to be smart, but wanted to be like God and wanted to experience the knowledge like God had. Charlie knew no other life outside of his job and school and he liked his

Both stories focus on the disastrous outcome of humans tampering with mother nature. In Flowers For Algernon, Charlie and Algernon are both born with mental challenges which society sees as an impediment. In order to fix this, two scientists operate on them increasing their intelligence a great deal. Though this benefits Charlie mentally, it also comes with great costs, bringing him into realization that his friendships were nothing but illusions and shortening of his lifespan. Supposed friends, coworkers, and even a potential lover begin to slowly drift away leaving Charlie in the ice cold darkness. Similarly, the talents of Harrison in Harrison Bergeron are masked by the government in order to create a sense of equality in their society, which ends up being a disaster causing the lives of two people. Manipulated by upper authorities, the lives of Charlie and Harrison both end up in fatality.

Charlie Gurdon faced many obstacles throughout the story of Flowers for Algernon. Charlie went through a lot of emotions through the story. He also went through a lot of loss between him losing friends and losing his intelligence. Others may feel that Sam had it worse; however, evidence proves differently. Charlie Gurdon had it worse than Sam

More events happen in the film, such as the fire at the gas station and the restaurant. The film shows more details then the short story and helps you visualize the attacks more.

First, both of the stories have different main ideas. One example is, in “Harrison Bergeron” the main idea of the story is about everyone being equal, and in “Old Glory” the main idea is is about Donald and his crazy grand-Da and complaining about the SOS and the American flag, which that shows how different the main ideas of both stories are. Not to mention, all of the character in the stories are different. Another example is, in “Harrison Bergeron” the characters have to wear a mask if they are blindly beautiful, and have to use machines if they are highly intelligent, and in “Old Glory” grand-Da is very crazy, and he is just himself and that also shows how different the characters can be. Finally, the events in both stories are different. For instance, in “Harrison Bergeron” the main event is when Harrison comes up on the stage and takes off all of his machines and his mask, and in”Old Glory” the main event is when grand-Da is making a big fuss about the SOS and the American flag, and then the SOS men shoot him. These are some of the different details that both stories ue to develop the theme of their stories; there are many

“Flower for Algernon” and Charly, one is a story and the other is a movie. Both of the authors, Daniel Keyes and Stirling Silliphant had to change different parts of the story line in order for it to work. In both, Charly Gordan is the protagonist. He is 38 years old and lives in Boston at the time. At this time, Charly was not highly intelligent. After doctors performed an experimental surgery on him, he became more sophisticated and smarter. At work, his so-called “friend” bullied Charly. The only reason Charly “friends” take him out is to make fun of him for an amusement. Charly would have never found out what they laughing about if he had not gotten the surgery. Therefore, when Charly was out of a job, Silliphant perspective was that the boss fires Charly. However, Keyes perspective was that he is persuaded that he should quit his job. In both cases, he was unemployed. While Charly was unemployed, he has different feelings about people and things. When the bust boy dropped the tray with glasses in the movie and in the story, everyone in the diner laughs at the poor boy. Charly has seen himself in the boy who has dropped the dishes.

Although based on the same storyline, the novel, Flowers For Algernon and movie “Charly” have some significant similarities and differences. One similarity is that both the book and movie follow the same general plot. In Flowers for Algernon and “Charly” , the main character Charlie, is unintelligent and mentally retarded, attends school, gets an operation, becomes a genius, realizes things, and then becomes unintelligent again. However, a difference between the two is that Miss Kinnian, Charlie’s teacher has different feelings towards him. In Flowers For Algernon, Charlie liked Miss Kinnian after he became smart, but the feeling never really became mutual. On the other hand, in “Charly”, Miss Kinnian shows affection towards Charlie, and Charlie

In the short story of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie’s personality changes throughout the book. Although Charlie’s personality changes from the beginning to the end are small a lot has happened to allow those changes. Well, just like in real life, certain events can change you and things about you in many ways just like how events in Charlie’s life changed him and his Personality. In the short story of FFA there are many quotes that explains how Charlie changes from beginning to end. At the beginning of the novel Charlie had trouble spelling, using punctuation, and hearing others clearly.