Does Charlie Love Algernon

Charlie knows that this operation can be temporary, “They don’t know if it will be perminint but theirs a chance.” After the procedure Charlie has his ups and downs, but in the end deteriorate to the point where he cannot read and write and remember anything he has learned with his increased IQ. In the end Charlie looks back at his journey and sees everything he has done for science and is happy it lasted, “...Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel

As a matter of fact, Charlie slowly started to gain intellect; results from the surgery. His language and his daily progress reports in his journal decreased in spelling errors. Charlie was finally starting to feel like he was normal. People were starting to except him, or so it seemed. His “friends” were actually

Others may say that charlie shouldn’t have had the A.I. surgery because he recognized the dishwasher boy getting bullied “Shut up! Leave him alone! It's not his fault he can’t understand. He can’t help what he is! But for God’s sake he’s still a human being.” (Keyes,237) This showed how cruel society could be to people with disabilities. However, Charlie was being bullied too. Charlie could relate to the dishwasher boy. Charlie taught his bullies how wrong it is to bully people with disabilities. This is showing how brutal people are to people who are not like

Charlie was lucky because Algernon got the surgery a long time before so they could tell Charlie if something was going to happen to him. "He was unusually disturbed and vicious."(216). In this sentence, it shows how they found out that Algernon was acting weird, so they researched on him and they found out what was happening. This way they could tell Charlie what will happen to him and if they had any way they could stop it from happening. "Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a cerebral convolutions as well as the deepening and broadening of brain fissures."(219). This sentence is describing what happened to Algernon and how he died. This shows that this will soon happen to Charlie. And just like Algernon, Charlie will die. This is why Charlie shouldn't have taken the surgery to become

Charlie may have had some disadvantages to his tripled IQ, such as the struggle of talking to regular people, but he was better off with the surgery; everything was easier for Charlie. If the surgery’s effects lasted forever, he would have had everything easy. He’d have a good life, a better job, and he would be with Ms. Kinnian rather than see her as just a teacher, like his former self did. He would notice whenever someone made fun of him, or bullied him. Charlie was much more aware of various things after the surgery, so in general, Charlie was better off with the effects after the

When Charlie was intelligent he often got irritated at the doctors because they weren’t as smart as him. He had also dealt with a lot of emotion with Miss Kinnian, Charlie was in love with Miss Kinnian. When he regressed, he was embarrassed to see her because he thought she would think he was dumb. When Charlie was at a diner, he saw a kid with disabilities, and everyone was laughing at him and so was Charlie. He was upset with himself that he laughed at him because that kid was him before he had the surgery to make him smart.

In the book "Flowers for Algernon" a man named Charlie, who's intellectually disabled, wants to become smart. Since that's the only thing he wants, and he'll do anything to do it, two men choose Charlie to have the operation done on, which will "open up the gates" to him learning. Before they did it on a human, they did it on a mouse named Algernon, who became very smart. After Charlie had his operation, he was frustrated because he wasn't smart. The two men, Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur, had Charlie do many things such as read and write down progress reports. Charlie was learning at a very fast rate. He read

Imagine you were given the opportunity to have a surgery that would make you the smartest person in the world, having the largest I.Q. out of anyone, and being able to fulfill your life dreams! That was the situation Charlie Gordon was in. Charlie Gordon was a thirty-seven year old man who lived in New York, in the story ¨Flowers for Algernon¨ by Daniel Keyes. Charlie was a mentally disabled man with only an I.Q. of 68. One day he was interviewed and was chosen to receive a surgery to, at the least, triple his I.Q., making him the smartest man in the world. Charlies biggest dream was to be smart and with the artificial intelligence (A.I.) operation, he could finally fulfill his biggest dream. The life that Charlie Gordon lived improved significantly after the artificial intelligence surgery. Charlie had been given the opportunity to feel new emotions, have an increase I.Q., and

Charlie Gordon should not have had this operation because the operation did not benefit him in anyway. The surgery was going to leave Charlie isolated once again. The operation gave Charlie what he wanted which was to be smart but it did not last forever. The operation made his life harder for him to live. The doctors got benefit from the operation because they got to see if the experiment worked or not. They used Charlie for the operation

For the first few weeks after the surgery, Charlie is getting smarter exponentially every day. He is reaching his life goal of being intelligent. Then, around late May, Charlie visits the lab to greet Algernon, the mouse who had been the first subject for the operation. Charlie has visited him many times because they have bonded over their experiments together. The lab warns him that something has changed. After seeing the mouse, he informs the doctors, “It happened today. Algernon bit me. I visited the lab as I do occasionally, and when I took him out of his cage, he snapped at my hand. I put him back and watched him for a while. He was unusually disturbed and vicious” (Keyes 20). Algernon is a very intelligent mouse. Though this vicious behaviour may be normal for an average mouse, it is obvious to Charlie that Algernon would never do something like this unless there was something wrong. When Charlie says, “I put him back and watched him for a while,” he is connecting the dots. If something happened to Algernon, could something happen to him too? Consequently, he begins to do research on his own, trying to figure out what happened to Algernon. He writes a scientific essay about his observations, which he dubs the “Algernon - Gordon Effect,” and submits it to the researchers. His most important discovery is that “Artificially increased

Another reason why he should’ve had the surgery is if he didn’t then he would’ve made the scientific discovery. But sadly his research leads to his demise. When Charlie says, “Artificially increase intelligence deteriorates at the rate it directly proportional to the quantity of the increase”. So after he found out the truth about the surgery he didn’t trust the doctors he worked with. The doctors told Charlie the truth about their backgrounds.

Another reason Charlie should have had the A.I. Surgery is that he achieved his goal of becoming smart. Also, Charlie was able to begin reading and writing better. An example of this is “we are reading a very hard book. I never read such a hard book before. It's called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert Iland” (Keyes 229). This specifically shows that Charlie is now able to comprehend and read harder books like he wasn't able to before. Charlie was better off having the surgery because he achieved his lifelong goal of becoming intelligent and being able to read, write, and

Does surgery always solve the problem? According to Charlie Gordon, it worsened his quality of life. He lost most of his friends that he thought he had. It made it seem like Charlie didn’t deserve to be intelligent because he used surgery to make himself more intelligent than ever before. Eventually, Charlie returned back into being dumbfounded and to his normal self.

After the surgery, it was clear that nothing happened immediately. But after a while, you could tell that something has changed about him. He was spelling words correctly, able to comprehend, and became very creative. Before the operation, Charlie is able to learn but slow. However, he is able to take care of himself and do his job well even with his condition. He would sometimes race a mouse named Algernon. Algernon is a mouse that got his intelligence level raised by brain surgery. Slowly but surely, he became super smart. "I beat Algernon!" said Charlie. Charlie even made and researched the "'The Algernon-Gordon Effect: A study of structure and Function of

Charlie Gordon is checked into a hospital and is going to get his intelligence boosted by surgical means. Some evidence to support that is because Charlie played a game with a white mouse named Algernon. The white mouse Algernon beat Charlie through the maze several times. Charlie also overheard Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss talking about his I.Q. Evidence to support this statement is that Charlie wrote down some of the words they were saying like intellect, mentality, and some other words. Charlie also heard that Dr. Nemur said that Charlie will be the first ever human being to have his I.Q tripled over surgical means. “I say we use Charlie”, Dr. Strauss said. So Charlie is checked into a hospital and will get his intelligence boosted by surgical