How To Describe Algernon

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman. Charlie Gordon is a very welcoming, playful, and genuine man. He attends Beekman College for Retarded Adults and has a strong motivation to learn and to improve his intelligence. He dreams of being popular, and making friends. Throughout the novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon changed in many ways. Prior to his life changing operation, he was not able to grasp that the people at Donner’s Bakery were not his friends, they only spoke to him to make fun of him. Charlie acknowledged their harsh actions, and started retaliating. Charlie is a very open

The Importance of Being Ernest – Act 1 Task 1 How are the characters of Algernon and Jack/Ernest created for the audience? They are presented to within a high class of society, with a lack of consideration or care for the lower classes. Both are bored by their high society lives and “stiff” lunches/meetings that they must attend, so have created alter egos which they use to have fun in a different place. Algernon has invented a sick friend called Bunbury, who he sometimes must spend long lengths of time “looking after”, and when in the country, Jack becomes Ernest.

Algernon is demonstrated as a comical character. He is also shown to be a liar and this is seen when he tells Lady Bracknell that there were “no cucumbers in the market” to make the cucumber sandwiches; when he ate them all. He is also very open with women and engages is physical contact before permission from Cecily’s guardian, Jack. Algernon also meets Cecily in a wrong manner as he runs off to Jack’s country house uninvited; which isn’t reflective of an Ideal Victorian man at all.

Eulogy of Bunbury’s death in Algernon’s perspective. (extra false pretence that Bunbury wasn’t real) For anyone who doesn’t know me, I’m Algernon, actually never mind that, as I do believe that everyone here today knows me, as Bunbury kept to himself a lot and didn’t really have anyone else. So this honor is bestowed unto me to say a few words in memory and to enlighten all of you on what kind of man my dear friend Bunbury was. (lady Bracknell:) “Hurry up Algernon I have luncheon at 3 and it would be a most terrible thing to miss it” (Algernon:) Yes, rather.

In relation to the poem, Steinbeck’s character Lennie represents both mouse and man. He is the man in terms of his physical strength and characteristics but the mouse in terms of his mental capabilities, simple desires and simple understanding of the world.

Flowers for Algernon is very suspenseful in many ways. In the book, when Charlie Gordon goes in for surgery, he is dreading what will happen to him. Charlie shows this by bringing a lot of luck charms, and is scared when he sees a black cat. Another thing is when Algernon dies after

3) In this novel I feel that there are a couple of characters which have power in this book flowers for Algernon. First the main Character and protagonist Charlie has power over if he’s going to continue with the progress reports and coming to the lab once a day to do tests on him. The world is watching his steps of development and the more intelligent he becomes to more arrogant, Selfish and egotistic he becomes and he has the power to that because this experiment is based on how well he develops Nobody wants to get on his bad side.

The character of Algernon is clearly complex in nature, if one can get past all of the apparent superficialities. Despite this, Algernon's significance most notably lays in the fact that his idea of bunburying can be seen as a deeper metaphor for Wilde's own double

True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.”(Akande) Charlie Gordon, even when intellectually disabled, is a complicated person. His friendships shine through as strong, and he is willing to do anything for his friends, Joe and Frank. But what Charlie doesn’t realize, is that his “friends” are Machiavellian; cunning and duplicity and use Charlie as laughingstock. After he undergoes the operation, he apprehends that they used him as an object of ridicule. In Flowers for Algernon, his two friends are titled Joe and Frank, while in Flowers for Algernon: The Movie, they are Joe and Gimpy. The written version involves a scene in which Joe and Frank convince Charlie to dance with a girl, and being the only one dancing, is naturally the fool. The cinematic adaptation incorporates a mixer machine act, in which Charlie is mislead to believe that today is his boss’ birthday, and should use the machine to prepare a loaf of bread. In both adaptations of the book, his friends lampoon him in various ways, beguiling him into dancing and working a machine. Charlie’s relationship with “the boys”, as he calls them, differs in the movie and novella, from names to

In particular, both stories would not exist without the element of class conflict, strict rules of etiquette, and even laws that regulated the behavior of the different classes. Algernon, for instance, is an upper class gentleman who was expected to be “both serious and moral,” also it was customary “to cultivate their talents and assets for the benefit of others, not themselves” (Girouard 50). However, when Algernon’s introduction he exclaims,

Algernon Moncreiff on the other hand, lied to get to the coutnry so he could find something more genuine as opposed to the false honesty of the city. Again, one sees the same dichotomy as one would see in Jack. Alge lied to get to Cecily, his true love, which again is genuine. Cecily Cardew has a dichotomous personality as well. On the outside, Cecily appears to be innotcent and very victorian like, which represents the victorian dewfinitionof honesty. However, if one dug a little deeper, they would see that Cecily is much like a female version of a dandy. She has wicked thoughts, which represent her genuine, truly honest self.

“Pardon me, you are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself” (Wilde, 622). Lady Bracknell’s harsh criticism and stubborn ways are customary of upper-class mothers in the era. Ironically enough, Algernon later develops a kind of forbidden love. The object of his affection is young and being taught to be unimaginative and serious.

some of the more subtle ways of showing the theme of people making insignificant concepts important to themselves are characterization and setting. firstly, the characterization of algernon is the most obvious instance of using characterization to portray the theme. algernon is concerned with fruitless social rituals that re a hindrance to others'

In some ways, Algernon, not Jack, is the play’s real hero. Not only is Algernon like Wilde in his dandified, exquisite wit, tastes, and priorities, but he also resembles Wilde to the extent that his fictions and inventions resemble those of an artist.

Algernon attempts to be clever, using food to avert John’s request intended for him to leave. With plans to marry Cecily, leaving becomes an obstacle, which prevents Algernon christening later that afternoon. David Ball author of Backwards &