Factors In Daniel KeyesFlowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

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.

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.

“Eagar, Determined, and Motivated:” these three words describe Charlie Gordon in Daniel Keyes’s story “Flowers for Algernon”. Daniel Keyes writes about a thirty two year old man with a low IQ (Charlie Gordon) who strives to become “normal”. Charlie will do anything to become smarter even letting two doctors preform brain surgery to enhance his learning capability. Charlie evolves throughout the novel and by the end of his journey although his IQ is low he is a more complete person. He learns the true meaning of friendship and demonstrates intellectual growth as a person by overcoming obstacles and understanding various lessons.

They had tested it on a mouse named Algernon before but they have not yet conducted the experiment on a human being. Charlie does not understand why the experiment must be kept a secret but as the novel progresses Charlie realizes the experiment was not conducted properly and ends up failing. “I don’t reely understand why I got to keep it a seecrit. Burt says its in case theirs a faleure Prof neumur don’t want everybody to laff espeshully the pepul from the Welberg foundashun who gave him the money for the project”(Keys 20). Charlie believes the only thing Nemur is worried about is that people will mock him but he does not think that is accurate because he believes that the scientists know what they are doing and that they are smart individuals. However, as the novel progresses and Algernon begins to deteriorate Charlie realizes that the experiment was a sham.

At the beginning of the presentation, he says, “When Charlie came to us he was outside of society, alone in a great city without friends or relatives to care about him, without the mental equipment to live a normal life. No past, no contact with the present, no hope for the future. It might be said that Charlie Gordon did not really exist before this experiment” (Keyes 161). Here, Professor Nemur implies that Charlie wasn’t even a human before the experiment because of his low IQ. This shows that he thinks of Charlie as an inferior because of his mental retardation, which demonstrates how humans seek to be superior to others.

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.

People believed that Charlie was artificial, man-made, a lab rat. Professor Nemur thought that he had created Charlie, and that he was nothing before the operation “It might be said that Charlie Gordon did not really exist before this experiment…”. Charlie was a human before and after the operation “I’m a human being, a person with parents and memories and a history and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!”. (p.161) As Charlie began to grow mentally and become intelligent, his understanding of the world became clearer than before. Although he could understand reality, he couldn't understand his feelings. Charlie thought he could understand his feelings but he really didn't, especially love “Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you.”. Later, as he continues to grow, he decides that he could let his feelings rule him only during his relationship with Alice but not during anything else. He realized that he really loves Alice because his feelings and emotions go wild when he's with her. Also because he sees the old Charlie when he's with her helping him realize he loves her. Charlie loved her enough to let her go because he didn't want her to see him deteriorate. Charlie decided to go to the Warren Home because he

A neurosurgeon asks you to agree with getting an Artificial Intelligence(A.I.) procedure, to increase your I.Q. by three times. Would you do it? Charlie Gordon, a thirty seven year old man with a mental disability, faces this exact question in the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. He goes through with it, but afterwards, he discovers good and not-so-good things about life ,that he never knew. Carlie was better off before he had the A.I. surgery, because he lost friends, he regressed lower than before the surgery,and he developed new emotions, negatively affecting himself and the people around him.

As a consequence, having the operation created the chance for unpredictable and unwanted outcomes. Charlie was the first human patient for the experiment. Since the doctors have never tried the operation on a human being before, the chances for making mistakes are higher. This was proven as Algernon soon experiences side effects as his intelligence regresses and he eventually passes away. Soon, Charlie also regresses back to his original intelligence state. In conclusion, having the operation created unpredictable and unwanted outcomes. I inferred that Charlie wouldn’t die like Algernon did because the last line in the book in which he asks that someone puts flowers on Algernon's grave shows that he hasn't lost 100% of his memory of what happened. The fact that he remembers Algernon and his meticulous ritual of placing flowers on his grave shows that with repetition and reminders, he does have the capacity to recall details about the time he spent with intelligence. It's there somewhere in his subconscious, just like his childhood memories were before. While Charlie maintains most of his intelligence, 16 days after Algernon bit Charlie, Algernon died. And even after 13 days realizing his intelligence is regressing, he isn't showing signs of sickness, just showing that he is absentminded. Having all these different factors influenced all these different outcomes. In

Strauss said that Dr. Nemur was more interested in the Chair of Psychology at Princeton than he was in the experiment. Dr. Nemur said that Dr. Strauss was nothing but an opportunist who was trying to ride to glory on his coattails” (295). This argument between the two doctors proves that Dr. Nemur especially was only invested in the surgery for his own personal gain-- and not for the benefit of Charlie. Because he was so eager to get his results out to the world and so paranoid that someone may discover a way to complete the surgery before him, he decided to rush into the surgery and didn’t take the guidance given to him by Dr. Strauss who said that they should wait. Instead, he goes ahead with the surgery and ruins Charlie’s life. REASONING? Additionally, we witness Algernon’s strange behavior which is concluded as a side-effect of the surgery. “May 23 It happened today. Algernon bit me. I visited the lab to see him 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. May 24 [Algernon] is less co-operative; he refuses to run the maze any more; general motivation has decreased. Everyone is upset about what this may mean. May 25 They 're all pretending that Algernon 's behavior is not necessarily significant for me. But it 's hard to hide the fact that some of the other animals who were used in this experiment are showing strange behavior. I 've got to find the

It is often debated whether ignorance is bliss. Is not being conscious of one's surroundings truly happiness? In the novel entitled Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, ignorance is Charlie’s peace. Not realizing that, he undergoes a procedure to make him knowledgeable. As his intelligence progresses, relationships begin to deteriorate with the ones he cares for most. Furthermore, his brain began to process memories, leading to anxiety in sexual situations. Finally, because his blindfold disappeared, he sees the truth behind all of his encounters, which ends up being too much for Charlie to withstand. He did not have the capacity to understand the sorrow that would come with knowledge; therefore, Charlie was better off before the surgery.

Although it is often not thought of, the experiences from the past greatly influence the future. The tragic story; Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is an excellent example of this as it exemlplifies a mentally retarded man's journey from being mentally disabled to becoming a genius. Charlie, the protagonist and narrator of the story, gradually gains intelligence from a rather unethical surgery and writes progress reports as a way forProfessor Nemur and Dr. Strauss to overlook his progress in the experiment. These reports are important, as they show Charlie's growth from a middle-aged retarded man, to a genius who constantly craves knowledge, and as he narrates his life, he provides the reader with his past experiences and how they have made him the person he is in his every day life.

In the story, Flowers For Algernon there was an 37 year old man who was named Charlie.He wrote in his journal about everyday.In his journal there are lost of mispelled words.Meaning that Charlie is not very smart.He was still in school his teacher tryed to make him smart but that seemed not to work.Untill there was 2 doctor who wanted to do an operation so he could become smart.They both had agrued about trying to make charlie smart, but they think that the opertaion would’nt help.

Flowers for Algernon is a powerful dramatization of Daniel Keyes perceptive and emotional novel that tells a story of a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie has an I.Q of 68 and undergoes an operation that is supposed to boost his intellect. However, yet such an operation asks many questions- can Charlie's emotional expansion keep pace with the intellectual? As the story progresses the operation's effects soon wear off and Charlie ends up in a worse place than he was in the beginning. Ultimately he discovers that being smart is not as good as he thought it would be.

Decisions, decisions, decisions. People make decisions every single day of their lives, every single minute, every single second. Whether it is a very important decision, as in buying a house, or a small decision as in deciding where to go eat for lunch. No matter what the decision may be, we all have to make choices every single day. For Charlie Gordon he had a big decision coming his way. To get a surgical procedure to increase his intelligence and mental capabilities. Charlie wanted to get the procedure done straight away so he could be a so called “genius” due to the fact that he was developmentally disabled. On the other hand, the doctors had to make the final decision on whether or not Charlie