Flowers For Algernon: Book And Movie

Don't you hate it when you read an awesome book but, the movie is just not up to par? And isn’t it the worst when the film doesn’t have the same key details that are in the book? This is the case in the short story and film of “Flowers for Algernon”. Portrayal of characters, setting, and characters, all of which are missing in the film but are found in the short story. These are all crucial parts to the plot and storyline of the short story.

Have you ever wanted to have your I.Q. tripled? Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a 37 year old mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon. He goes through some tests including the Rorschach test, a maze with a mouse who is named Algernon, and the thematic apperception test to be accepted for an experiment to triple his IQ. At the end, his IQ starts to drop down and he moves away. I know this story shows suspense and sadness because I have read it.

When a book gets adapted into a film, the filmmakers will most likely change many things from the book so it doesn’t seem like they ripped the film completely off. This is obvious with Flowers For Algernon and the movie, Charly, this book and movie have many differences as well as similarities. One similarity with this book and film is that they both follow the same story which is about Charlie, a 37 year old man that desperatly wants to become smart. In the book, Charlie finds two doctors, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss and choose him for the operation, In the film, Charlie is also chosen for the operation. Another similarity is that Charlie becomes friends with Algernon after he beats him. In the book, after Charlie beats Algernon many times,

The book that I have read is Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. This book was published in 1966 and 1959.

* Students should work through the idea that different levels of intelligence, emotional and intellectual, lead to different types of interactions with people and society.

Science is everywhere around us. It is all the little things from your alarm in the morning to big things like cures for diseases. In the story “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur have a patient named Charlie Gordon to see if a brain operation could increase your IQ level. I don’t think Charlie should not have gotten the operation done because he was told the results would be temporary, the operation put his life in danger, and the operation caused him to become depressed.

In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys, Charlie Gordon is 32 years old but he acts like a kid, mentally retarted adult that eventually gets smarter. Although Charlie is an adult he does things kids will do and he acts like a kid. Charlie a mentally”Retarted” Adult. As his intelligence increases he gets smarter and starts to understand things better. As he regresses, he faces loss with dignity and determination.

Charlie and Algernon are best friends. Even though they can’t understand each other, they still can relate to each other. They are the only ones who had the operation. In the book, Algernon stays in the lab where the scientists can keep their eye on him. In the movie, Charlie takes Algernon with him several times.

A central theme in “Flowers For Algernon” is that you don’t have to change who you are to fit in with others. You can be yourself and still fit in with the crowd. In the text, Charlie wrote “Maybe if I ask him he will tell me how I can think now that Im suppose to get smart. What do smart people think about. Fancy things I suppose. I wish I knew some fancy things alredy” (Keyes 225-226). From the text, I can infer that he wishes he was intelligent already so that he could think about fancy things, such as smart people do. Also, in the text Charlie stated “I said I asked pepul and sumbody told me where I shud go to lern to read and spell good. They said why did you want to. I told them becaus all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb”(pg.

The story, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, and the film version of the story, Charly, have both similarities and differences. The biggest difference from the story and the film is the ending. In the ending of Flowers For Algernon, Charlie decides that enough is enough, and runs away from New York to start a new life elsewhere. However, in the film version, it ends with Charlie playing on the swings of the playground, with Miss Kinnian watching him. It infers that Charlie lost his intelligence after only a short while, and became “dumb” again. Another difference between the story and the film is what happens after Charlie gets his operation, and becomes smart. In the story, Charlie does not get recognized for being the only person to have

Flowers for Algernon/The Awakening I am doing the compare contrast of ¨The Awakening¨ and ¨Flowers for Algernon¨. Both of the story are of a medical administration or procedure that allows the recipient to become more aware of themselves and others. They both have the same idea but they are distinctly different from each other in the way that one is a mental incapability and the other is of disease related and many other things. In ¨Flowers for Algernon¨ the procedure is of surgical means but in ¨The Awakening¨ is works by chemical stimulation of the brain. I believe they both have the same idea and a couple of the stories end alike

In the movie “Charly” that based on the novel “Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes” that was made in 1968. In the movie Charly the main characters are “Charly, Algernon, Dr. Strauss, Dr. Nemur, Mrs. Apples, Bert, Gimpy, Hank, and Paddy. The movie wasn’t that good as in the book, I think the book was better than the movie.

Flowers for Algernon is a touching novel written by Daniel Keyes and was published in April of 1959. Since then it has gotten loads of critical acclaim and has sold countless amounts of copies. This incredible novel is a story about a Thirty Two year old man named Charlie Gordon, who is mentally handicapped. Throughout the course of the novel Charlie is given a second chance at life, a chance to be smart. After a successful test on mice, Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur are looking for a human volunteer to test their artificial intelligence procedure on.

In Daniel Keyes’ compelling novel, Flowers for Algernon, the main character undergoes both important emotional and physical changes. The book has an interesting twist, as it is described in the characters “progress reports”. This book has a science fiction undertone, and takes place in exciting New York City. As the novel begins, the main character, Charlie Jordan is thirty-two years old, but cannot remember anything from his childhood.

"That's the thing about human life" said author of Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, "there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed" (Keyes). In two societies where science is used to change the order of the world, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, show the impact of science on society. As one book shows the consequences of altering intelligence, the other deals with the brainwashing used to create a stable community. Flowers for Algernon and Brave New World share the common themes of science being used to perfect society, the incompatibility of truth and happiness, and science's impact on one's identity.