Flowers For Algernon Answers

Originally published in 1959 as a science fiction short story for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the novel Flowers for Algernon by an American writer Daniel Keyes is more relevant today than at that time. With more than five million copies in print, this book with its great depth of meaning is still considered to be the most acclaimed author‘s work.

The character of Charlie (being the protagonist) is who the readers are directly linked too, as we are taken on a journey with him through his actions, feeling, ideas and perspectives. His journey also includes his maturation/ coming of age as he does not escape from his issues and problems however he faces them head on. “I have no idea where we’re going. The further we move, the keener my apprehension grows. Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don’t.” The passage has shifted from the description of late-night Corrigan to the thoughts/feeling of Charlie. He has been called to a mysterious place by a peculiar figure called Jasper Jones. As they travel further and further away from Corrigan the more Charlie’s worry and doubt comes to him about where they are travelling, what they might be doing and why did Japer choose him over everyone else? The readers are unaware of why Charlie is following Jasper blindly and so is Charlie. This is a stage in the narrative where Charlie’s progression as a character starts. The mood is created here from the events that are happening and from the readers attachment to the protagonist. The thoughts of the characters are reflected as the feeling from the readers. In some ways we already understand what might happen based on different reading from

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.

“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.

One thing Charlie repeated many times before the surgery was “I want to be smart” (Keyes 225) also that he would do whatever it takes to become smart he would work really hard so he could be smart and fit in. That is why Charlie should have had the A.I. to give him what he really wanted even if it wasn’t permanent. A common argument against this position is that the surgery wasn't permanent and that it is not worth being smart for a few weeks. But i argue that Charlie was very grateful for being smart even for just a little while. While he was smart he was able to make scientific advances that most people could not od in a lifetime And he did it in a few weeks and he was grateful to give back to the people who made him

His mother had taught him to not look at girls, and after the operation when he started to develop more feelings, he had a hard time talking to Alice Kinnian because he had the thought that he liked her, and that he shouldn’t. Due to the hard nature of his mother, Charlie’s emotional life was not maturing with his new-found intelligence. Emotionally, he was still a little kid. “I knew she would give herself to me, and I wanted her, but what about Charlie?” Whenever he would get near Alice, he would start to panic because he felt that there was still a part of his old self within him, keeping him from taking his relationship further with

This quote depicts the protagonist of the story, Charlie, basically summarizing his life as illustrated in the book. Charlie is a troubled teenager who is friends with other troubled teenagers. All he really wanted was to navigate through his teenage life; yet his past as well as his present is riddled with conflicts that is seemingly created by others who are like him in a vicious cycle. This quote represents his character in the book because that is the question he seeks throughout the book. At the end of the book, he found the answer: he suffered from a traumatic sexual past with his aunt, and he suppressed

Bailey Allee Putman Hour 2,5 15 November 2016 Argument Paper Ethics are what is right to do, they are what is fair and solidly based. They do not depend on one's feeling or characteristics, such as religion or ethnicity. In the book Flowers for Algernon, Charlie is a low intelligence person who is offered to be the subject of an experiment that could make him smarter. Charlie doesn't know exactly what that means, just that it might make him smarter. Charlie's intelligence skyrocketed over the span of a few weeks, but then it started to go down just as fast.

The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won’t ridicule him for being slow again. Daniel Keyes wrote this short story for good reasons. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an outside look on how we treat mentally challenged people. When you treat people as you always do, you don’t see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to

Flowers for Algernon is about a 37-year-old man who compared to other adults, is very below average when it comes to intelligence. He later finds that scientists are in need of a test subject for an intelligence booster, which Charlie takes and later finds that the effect is temporary. This essay will be evaluating the differences in the short story compared to the play.

Dilemmas happen everyday. Some dilemmas can be good, and some can be bad. A dilemma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives.  In the story, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes wrote a story about a 37 year old man named Charlie  who has a disability, he doesn't understand thing that normal people can. He then is encouraged by his teacher to get a surgery done to become smarter. Some people think that the surgery was a good idea,or some think it was a bad idea. In my opinion, I think that Charlie made the wrong decision about the surgery. Some people think that Charlie should of have the operation to make his dream come true In my opinion, I think he shouldn't have had the surgery because, people weren't expecting him to be new, it would not be permanent, and he put his life in danger.

This was a short story that we had to read for school and I cried while reading it and while watching the movie. It was a fantastic story, and absolutely heartbreaking. The journal narration style was a nice element to the story and made me feel a close connection with Charlie. It is not a fast-paced novel, so it didn't contain a bunch of plot twists, but I always felt myself learning more about the issues regarding mental health and disabilities, which often get neglected in discussions of healthcare. It is a story

At the beginning of the book we see that Charlie didn’t have many friends. For instance, in page 8 Charlie states, “...So that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here”. A couple of pages after Charlie tells us “Nothing

After i counted up to ten over and over again on my fingers I went to look for them. I kept looking until it got cold and dark and I had to go home.” This quote shows me just how mean people really were to Charlie in his youth. He was an outcast and picked on for something he couldn’t help and not knowing that people were so brutally mean to him until years after the fact must hurt. I think this quote shows coming of age themes in the novel. I also think that it makes it very clear to the reader that mental growth at such a speed can be hard

In “Flowers for Algernon,” numerous themes appear throughout Charlie Gordon’s journey. Charlie Gordon, the story’s protagonist, is considered to be used as a test subject for an original experiment that can potentially change the face of science. After many tests, Charlie undergoes an operation, as a result, a slow progression begins in his overall intelligence levels.