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Identity In Mirror Image And Flowers For Algernon

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George R.R. Martin once said, “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” In both stories of Mirror Image by Lena Coakley and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes they have a common theme of identity and about how you find yourself. For both the characters in the story they find themselves finally by first losing themselves. For example in the short story of Mirror Image, Alice is a character who struggles to find herself and tries to understand if this is truly who she is. The situation of Alice is that she is the first to successfully have her brain transplanted in a new body, and due to this she is struggling to find her own identity. …show more content…

The relationships that she has with others are affected due to her change, however through this struggles and meeting the parent of the body she inhabits she finally discover that she is not Gail Jarred, but she is actually who’s she been all her life, Alice. Alice finds peace with herself and her identity when she has a talk with Mr. Jarred when she hears him say to her, “I’ll tell her I looked into your eyes and that I didn’t see my daughter” (Coakley, 18). Alice’s journey to find herself and her identity was a long where see was lost, but she shares a similar journey to others. It also seems like this story can be considered an allusion and share a common theme to Flowers for Algernon where Charlie Gordon is struggling to find

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