How Does Algernon Function As An Alter Ego For Charlie?

I believe that Charlie is happier when he is less intelligent before the operation. You know the saying ignorance is bliss? That's what I think this is. Sometimes when I get bored I think about things. This is one of them. Would you rather be happy and not know something bad is happening? Or would you rather be unhappy and know that something bad is happening. Charlie was happiest before the operation. He didn't know that his "friends" weren't really his friends. He didn't know that his whole work place was making fun of him. He was happy though. Then he was intelligent, and knew what everyone was doing, he wasn't happy. He knew his "friends" weren't his friends. He knew everyone makes fun of him. He wasn't happy. In fact, he was so upset that

In the first place, as a result of the surgery Charlie is no longer seen as a human being. The doctors and world view Charlie as an experiment, dehumanizing him constantly throughout the story. “Since Algernon and I are the prime exhibits.” (113) Charlie begins to slowly notice the way the doctors treat him as an experiment, talking about him in his presence and not acknowledging that he has the capacity to understand and

Earlier in the novel, Charlie was friendly and didn’t know what was going around him. He had friends in the bakery, who made fun of him because of his condition. Charlie is also afraid of interacting or sharing intimacy with a woman because of his mother, and old self. Over the course of the novel, Charlie begins to change. Memories flashed back, he becomes so intelligent that he exceeded the doctors who operated on him. Towards the end, he got over his woman issues by sharing intimacy with Fay for the first time. He discovers the problem in Professor Nemur experiment, and called it the “Algernon-Gordan effect.” Charlie knew he was going to eventually go back to his old self or even worse, so he forgives his family for what they did to him. Charlie changed a lot through the course of the novel, especially towards the end. From being an innocent adult working at a bakery, to the most intelligent man in the world. When he ran away from the convention and got an apartment was when he became an independent person for the first time. The novel’s ending was very sad. Seeing how much Charlie improved since the surgery, and in the end he was even in a worse state than when he started. When charlie finally got a hold on his life, he discovered that he doesn’t have a lot of time until he transforms back to being mentally disabled again. The end was very

Charlie shouldn’t have had the operation done because it had the chance of risking his life during it. “OW! Algernon bit me on the finger” this shows that Algernon is going back to his original state of being a mouse. So later on they wouldn’t let Charlie in to see him because of what had happened. “Later on Algernon had died and so I put him in a cheese box and buried him about in the back yard.” This shows that what happened to Algernon could happen to Charlie if he didn’t had the operation done. Charlie could have the same thing happen

At the beginning of ¨Flowers for Algernon¨, Charlie values intelligence. To prove this let's look at his first progress report¨I hope they use me Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.¨. This clearly shows he values intelligence. Other evidence shows that he wants to be smart and normal in progress report four,¨Their going to use me! Im so excited I can hardly write. Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss had a argament about it first. Dr Nemur was in the office when Dr. Strauss brot me in...¨. This clearly states that Charlie wants to be used and wants to be smart. Now let's look at how Charlie's values begin to alter.

The twist where Charlie turns back to 70 IQ was unexpected. But the way Charlie was treated in the beginning makes a connection between him and the reader. We can also see that his attitude changes as he gets smarter. He pushes aside everything else just for his

You may view being intelligent as an amazing thing, but it was not a good thing for Charlie. Charlie lost all of his friends and the only friend he did have has a mouse named Algernon. Once Charlie died, he became depressed and could not get the thoughts of suicide out of his head. After so long Charlie lost his intelligence which is around the time Algernon died, he was at the lowest of his lows at that point.

Charlie wanted to be smart like everyone else but that ended up making him unlikable and far away from everyone, he found out the meaning of love and got into a relationship, but also ended a relationship, and Charlie got a normal life and a knowledgeable brain given and taken away from him. Charlie had many hardships and negatives through this experiment and it hurt more than just himself. People try to change who they are but a person is a person and they are themselves for a reason and other people need them the way they are like other people loved charlie even when he was not smart. People should not have to change who they

Charlie was better off before the operation because he laughed with his “friends”. He never understood that they were laughing at him, which made him happy. “...that made me laff. Their really my friends and they like me(118)…I showed them and everyone laffed when I told them that Mr Donnegan said I was the best janiter he ever had because I like my job and do it good and never

The tone of the story changes after the operation because Charlie starts processing more information. He is first ecstatic and optimistic but then is negative. This makes me feel bad/sad for Charlie because he's a good person. First and foremost, "I tryed hard but I still couldnt find the picturs I only saw the ink. I told him maybe I need new glases." This shows how determined he was to just understand something, he was very optimistic and that is really nice. Furthermore, “I want to be smart like other people. If it works perminint they will make everybody smart all over the wurld.” This proves that he was still very optimistic and ecstatic for becoming smart. Lastly, “I hate that mouse. He always beats me...Those inkblots are stupid. And

Throughout the novel, we can also notice a lot of changes happening to the people around him when he was turning out to be a smart person. Charlie thought when he becomes a smart person, he can get friends and can be happy, but on progress report 10 in the novel, Charlie feels alone and also gets fired from Mr.Donner’s bakery because of his friend do not like him because of his change, they cannot understand what has really happened to Charlie and do not know why Charlie is not like he was used to be. One of the other most important reason that no one was talked to him or care him at the bakery was probably for they think that Charlie remembers every evil thing that they did to him when he was not smart, and they thinks that he will point those out on one day and he will question them for what they done to him. Before the surgery, Charlie thought Gimpy, Frank and Joe are his best friends, but when he had his operation done and when he became smart he was able to view their relationship and realise that those people were not his friends. They often pick on Charlie and gimpy often used to steal money from his boss secretly (on progress report 11).

Character- The main character Charlie is developed in many ways throughout the story. His whole demeanor changed from page one. He actually started smoking in the middle of the book. “When I light it, I didn’t cough. It actually felt soothing. I know that’s bad in a health class kind of way, but it was true.”-pg 102 His personality was different after that. He always tried to be friendly to anyone he met but if you weren’t nice to his friends he didn’t really respect them after that. His dialogue is very similar throughout the whole book. He is very friendly when he talks and tries to be polite. Charlie is trying to make friends and keep them. He succeeds with some coaching from his english teacher who Charlie calls Bill. Bill

Charlie’s emotion and feeling toward Algernon changed throughout Algernon’s decline because Algernon and Charlie experienced the same operation, and underwent the same tests. Algernon was a good way to find out Charlie’s future in the experiment. Before the experiment, Algernon would always find the way through the maze faster than Charlie. However, after the operation, Charlie is successful for the first time in beating Algernon in the maze. When Algernon begins to show signs of decreasing intelligence, Charlie soon realizes that the intellect will soon diminish. Charlie's attitude towards Algernon changes, however, once Charlie discerns that the experiment will ultimately fail, as the experiment failed on Algernon. Charlie then begins to

After having his I.Q. tripled, people around him grew suspicious and fearful of his newly acquired intellect, “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I loved.” Moreover, he was fired from his previous workplace - Donnegan's Plastic Box Factory - (due to his co-workers starting a petition to repel him) thus, making him dependent on the experiment financially. Meanwhile, his previous teacher, Miss Kinnian, whom he is secretly in love with, finds difficulty relating to Charlie as he surpasses her intellectually. Hence isolating Charlie from society, “Now I’m more alone than ever before.” Although Charlie is no longer mentally challenged, he is just as helpless and dependent as

Charlie changed. I noticed as he got smarter he also got more negative. We also do this. As a child we're happy and free, yet as we develop we set boundaries for ourselves and become more negative. Charlie found the identity that he had always wanted, a smart man. What he thought he wanted made him happy for a time, yet it wasn't Charlie. He was no longer funny and happy. Charlie became smart, but that is all he was. The book became less enjoyable and more serious as he got smarter.