How Did Charlie Get Flowers For Algernon

This is how Charlie’s mental and emotional development changed through the story “Flowers to Algernon”. First when Charlie did not have surgery he had no emotion and was slow at learning. He also lost in a race to a mouse named Algernon. He was researched on before and after the surgery. After the surgery Charlie finally beats Algernon because on the paragraph titled April 6 he says, “ I finally beat Algernon.”. He starts feeling emotions after he beats Algernon because he can only have food when he has beaten a maze and on the paragraph April 6 it says, “That made me sad because if he couldn’t learn he would be hungry.”. He also understand jokes from the “Late Late Late Night Show”. So, that’s how Charlie grew emotions and intelligence over

To begin, one of the biggest reasons that Charlie would’ve been better off having never gotten the surgery is so he wouldn’t have to deal with knowing what great intelligence is like, but then having to go back to being naïve and dumb again. In the story Flowers for Algernon, Keyes says, “I learned so much so fast. Now my mind is deteriorating rapidly. I won’t let it happen. I’ll fight it. I can’t help thinking of the boy in the restaurant, the blank expression, the silly smile, the people laughing at him. No- please- not that again…” (303) This shows that Charlie realizes his mental capabilities are deteriorating and

“I reread my paper on the ‘Algernon-Gordon Effect’ and I get the strange feeling it was written by someone else. There are parts even I do not understand” (337). Charlie becomes upset, as his own piece of work he was so proud of, cannot even be understood by the man who had made it; that being himself. Charlie knew he could not read it, which made him understand more about the operation and what it had done to him. The loss in his intelligence also removed some important memories. Charlie went for a walk one night to clear his head, bur as he started to walk back, he could not remember where he lived! Because Charlie could not remember, it caused a big jump in his deterioration, from forgetting grammar skills, to forgetting where he lived. Charlie starts to have mood swings when he could not do previous things that made him happy, like read. Charlie’s mood constantly switches between Neutral, to Angry, to Sad, and repeat. Charlie cannot grasp any one of those emotions to even save his own life, since they are running wild. All other factors mentioned indicate that before the operation, Charlie’s life was amazing.

We believe that Charlie should not have undergone the surgery because of the extremely negative after-effects it imposed on his brain. To start of with, Charlie is introduced as a man with mental instability who is teased and not happy with how disabled he his. “Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon. I am 37 years old.” Charlie is a grown man who is not as smart as everyone around him. He desperately wants to be smart and to be treated like normal. Drs. Strauss and Nemur decide to use him in an experimental surgery that will hopefully make him much more intelligent than he is.

Hi I am Daniel Keyes, welcome to Writer’s Week. Today, I want to speak about how I presented the statement, ‘Intelligence is a double-edged sword’ in my novel, Flowers for Algernon. If you have not read the novel, it is about an intellectually disabled young man named Charlie Gordon, in his thirties, who is presented with the opportunity to greatly increase his intelligence through a surgical procedure. His gradual intelligence causes him to realise certain matters in his life, both in the past and present, which he was oblivious to before the surgery. What he starts to realise because of his increasing intelligence affects him for the better and worse. I will speak about some positive and negative side

In the story, Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon makes a decision to allow doctors to do an operation on his brain to ¨make him smarter¨. Because of Charlie being mentally handicapped, I think that most of the decision making for Charlie was based on hopes and dreams, and not medical arguments, therefore nobody made the right decision.

“Flowers for Algernon” is a story about 37-year-old Charlie Gordon, who has to write [progris riport] for Dr. Strauss concerning his everyday life to keep up with how he is progressing. Charlie has a disorder where he spells things the way they sound. For example, instead of important Charlie world spell it [importint] . Charlie is a hardworking man, in [progris riport] 3 Charlie states “ I [tyed] the [hardist] and I [reely wantid] to [lern]” this shows the reader more about Charlie’s personality and saying how he does not want to give up. Algernon is a mouse who had the same problems Charlie did, but he had surgery and now he is smarter than what he used to be. Charlie and Algernon compete in a maze and Charlie lost Algernon over ten times that brought Charlie’s confidence, low a lot and made him feel upset.

Flowers for Algernon is a heartfelt novel written in 1959 about a man named Charlie Gordon, and a mouse named Algernon. Charlie has the IQ of 68, which is borderline mentally disabled or “retarded”. When doctors are in search of a participant for an operation to test the capability of growth in intelligence, Charlie is the perfect candidate. Along with Charlie receiving this operation, the mouse Algernon receives it as well. Algernon not only becomes competition for Charlie, but he also becomes a loyal and trustworthy friend. The operation goes as foreseen, if not better for both Charlie and Algernon. Charlie soon becomes more intelligent than the doctors predicted, and Charlie brings to everyone’s attention that he’s smarter than the ones

Flowers for Algernon is about a man named Charlie Gordon, he 32 years old, and is a subject to an experiment for intellectual growth. Charlie is put through the test as a hope for raising intelligence for retarded adults. Eager to be intelligent, Charlie goes with the process and the operation is a success. The operation takes its time to work in Charlie, like a seed. Each new thing he learns is a growth spurt for the seed, but like all plants, they must wither eventually. From then on, Charlie starts to grow as a character. We learn about his past, his preferences, and his own view on life. The further you go, the more you realize that Charlie’s attitude is changing as his intelligence grows. Charlie then realizes that there was an error with the test. Charlie had tests with an actual lab rat named Algernon, but the more time would go on, the more the mouse's primal instincts would release. Charlie came to the conclusion that the intelligence diminishes after some point, and this is where the `all flowers must wither` comes in, as he realizes the same is happening to him. In the end, Charlie returns to his 70 IQ and is sent toward the Center for Retarded Adults. There are multiple characters in the story, like Alice Kinnian, Charlie's teacher, Charlie’s parents, Charlie’s sister, his Uncle Herman, Mr. Donners, and more. The book takes place in multiple scenarios, from the Hospital to Charlie’s Hotel Room.

Others may say that the A.I surgery was a failure but I argue that the A.I surgery helped charlie in many different ways to help him in life.Charlie lost friends and moved away from new york because of his regression. He realized that after his regression he was geins and he was grateful for what he had been given.

Intelligence greatly affects how people feel and who they truly are. The level of understanding of others' emotions and how the world works changes who a person is. Who someone is how they act, and what they think. Intelligence is as much of a factor in the formation of personality as genetic makeup. Flowers for Algernon shows this very acutely, as Charlie’s personality changes greatly throughout the book as his intelligence fluxuates.

One hears others talking behind his back, and he is offended. Wouldn’t it be better to be better not to hear anything at all? In the novel, Flowers for Algernon narrated by a man named, Charlie Gordon we learn that ignorance is sometimes bliss.

Charlie Gordon, the beloved mentally disabled protagonist from the short story Flowers for Algernon, was much better off after his surgery. He had surgery that made him smarter, and he was much better off once he got it. This is true because he wanted to be smart, he had a great experience, and was happy at the end of the story.

People are born the way they are. Is it right to change themselves if they were given the chance. Charlie in the book, Flowers for Algernon, had an I-Q of 68. He was loved and cherished by the people around him. He took part in an experiment that could bring up his intelligence. The side effects were unknown but he still did it. After the operation from the experiment he became smarter. Charlie talked and acted differently in contrast to everybody, making everyone feel second rate. People who cherished him ceased and he lost his occupation. His intelligence changed him making everything feel distinct. He suddenly discovered that being smart didn’t make you feel more love or happy. Before long, he learned his intelligence wasn’t

Have you ever heard the expression, “be careful what you wish for”? The saying applies to Charlie in “Flowers for Algernon”. Some may think he was better off after his operation, others may think before. His IQ was way lower than an average person’s, but his life was better that way. He was happier, had friends and a job, and the world was a wonderful place to him.