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In my opinion Charlie has a joy in learning every day. Charlie has found new ways to use and fix certain materials, after getting the operation, it’s like his mind was opened up to a new world. He as even found a way to improve the mixing machine to help speed up production at the bakery, which helped him earn more pay. Charlie’s intelligence has increased every day. He is even taking college classes and is having intellectual conversations with other students. Now that Charlie is so smart some people are frightened of him. I believe that the only reason they were so scared of him because they can’t handle a man with a disability to become smarter than them. Charlie even beliefs that college professors are beneath him or anybody in that matter. I think that Charlie was getting a little too cocky just because he became smart instead of remaining

Charlie had a very bad memory span before the operation and could not remember anything from his childhood. After Charlie has the operation preformed on him, he is able to recall memories from his past. Almost all of his childhood memories are ones he would probably rather forget and not have uncovered.

I think Charlie should not have had the operation because Charlie got to be smart for a short period of time and got to feel what it was like but now he will never be smart again. He has to live knowing all about what smart people get to live life like. In “Flowers for Algernon,” on page 223, at the end of the short story Charlie said, “So I gess it's like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.” When Charlie said this he was almost regretting the operation. He was saying how it he did it for everyone out there like him that isn’t as smart. As you may be able to

surgery also allowed Charlie to see the world from a brand new perspective. Prior to raising his I.Q. Charlie only saw the simplistic parts of the world, After tripling his I.Q. though he was able to see the world from a new point of view. This change was like looking at a wall, and then seeing every molecule and atom that makes up that wall. The book shows some of his “discoveries” in the quote “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility who would not take advantage of a man born without arms, or legs, or eyes- how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.” (Keyes 237) With this surgery, Charlie was able to gain awareness of the world, and the bullying around him. Without this surgery Charlie would have lived the rest of his life as a walking joke to those around him.

One reason that he should not taken the surgery becaues it made him lose his memories because when he was walking one night to his house her forgot where he lived. “I go out for a walk, last night i couldn’t remember where i lived. A policeman took me home”(Keyes 23).The quote explains itself becaues Charlie is forgetting where he lives and let's say the policeman wasn't there for him

With his decision to undergo the operation, Charlie is able to experience love for another person who also loves and cares for him. Charlie realizes how beautiful his teacher, Miss Kinnian, is for the first time. He notices her eyes, hair and her youthful beauty. He is able to experience her warm kindness, concern and caring for him. She shows him that she is very dedicated to him too! Charlie exclaims, “I amm in love with Miss Kinnian.” Everyone deserves to experience love at least once in their lifetime and Charlie is no exception! His temporary experience with love alone was well worth his decision to have the intelligence surgery. True love is never selfish or evil. Charlie's attachment to the laboratory

His sister, Norma, was no different because she just followed what her mother did. When Norma came to know that she would not get a dog for getting a good mark on her history test because of Charlie, she had a tantrum. She said, “I’ll stop studying, and I’ll be a dummy like him. I’ll forget everything I learned and then I’ll be just like him.” (Keyes 82). By remembering a memory like this, Charlie felt that the only reason he was born was to give trouble and embarrass his family. He felt this way, because the operation caused him to believe he was the cause of trouble in his family, and have flashbacks such as, moving schools because his schoolmates took advantage of his innocence.

He also managed to change his perspective of people and the world around him. For example, previously with Miss Kinnian, he viewed her unreachable genius and very old. Although, after Charlie has become much more intelligent, he see Miss Kinnian as beautiful, unlike before. “I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian is...Now everytime I see her she grows younger and more lovely.”(Page 47) This shows how the surgery has impacted his view of people positively. Another example is how he experiences new things. For inference, when he read an in depth book that he couldn’t understand before.”We are reading a very hard book. I never read such a hard book before. Its called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert Iland.”(Page 41) Charlie, because he is now not mentally retarded anymore, is able to understand more difficult books that we read everyday on a daily basis. It is all owed to the procedure that Charlie is able to change his viewpoints and experience things that formerly was impossible to

After reading the story, “Flowers for Algernon”, having knowledge does not make Charlie happier, kinder, or generally better. Charlie had an experimental operation to see if he could become smarter. That being said, when reading the story, after the operation, Charlie did not become happier, kinder or generally better at all. The operation made him happier at some moments such as when he thought he was in love with Miss Kinnian. But then towards the end the operation was starting to not work anymore and he grew away from Miss Kinnian just when they had started to get closer. Charlie did however become less kind after the operation. He was talking to Dr. Nemur & Dr. Strauss and was basically trying to prove to them that he was smarter than them.

So Charlie and Algernon ran away and Charlie later found out that he was going to lose his intelligence slowly. At the end of the book he was spelling like he did at the beginning of the book and he didn't have complete sentences. Overall I think the operation was worth it but at the same time i think it was a bad idea. I think it was a good thing because i think every thing happens for a reason and if Charlie didn't get the operation he wouldn't have done some of the stuff he did while he was a lot of intelligence. On the other hand i think it was a bad idea because the scientists didn't know what was going to happen and they didn't treat him,like a human like Charlie said “They treat me like an experiment instead of a human”. Cahlie change was very important because he got to experience something he might not have done if he didn't get that operation. In the beginning he didn't know how to do a lot of things, for example he did not spell correctly, but he was improving throughout the story. In the middle of the book he was really, really smart that some of his friends thought he changed. In the end of the book he lost all of his intelligence and he went to the Warren State

Charlie shouldn't have had the operation because he was pleased with his life. Even though Charlie had a very low IQ, he still had a job that he appreciated. He was a janitor of a company, and he was delighted with his job. At his job, he met Joe and Frank. Joe and Frank were his friends and he enjoyed spending time with them. After the surgery, Charlie got fired. This means that he didn’t have an income, and he became extremely lonely. Charlie also used to go to night school. This was a place where slow adults can improve their reading and writing. He enjoyed going there because he was able to see Miss. Kinnian. Sadly, after the operation, Charlie wasn’t able to go to night school. This means he wasn't able to see his teacher, Miss. Kinnian.

Before the surgery, Charlie was a person that was liked by all. The people in his life knew him from his benevolent smile with a sense of humor. Now, his intelligence seems to have taken over the emotional side to him, and transform it for the worse. For example, the people at the bakery are what Charlie considered as family. As a young child, Charlie’s family life was not adequate. His parents—especially Rose (Charlie’s mother)—wanted to put him into a mental institution. Before the chaos would take place, Charlie’s uncle had taken him in and offered a job, and other necessities. Since Uncle Herman died, Mr. Donner seems to have a reason to let Charlie go, especially since he along with the other coworkers are confused at what is happening to Charlie. For example, “But something happened to you, and I don’t understand what it means. Not only me. Everyone has been talking about it” (Keyes 104). After the surgery, everything seemed to go downhill for Charlie; everything in his life was not the best because of his increase in intelligence. His emotions are taking a toll from his life at the expense of the decision he made. Furthermore, changes cannot always be beneficial. Charlie would have been fine without the procedure because his life was just right. A change in one’s life can because the biggest break in

As a matter of fact, Charlie slowly started to gain intellect; results from the surgery. His language and his daily progress reports in his journal decreased in spelling errors. Charlie was finally starting to feel like he was normal. People were starting to except him, or so it seemed. His “friends” were actually

Charlie is happier before the operation when he was less intelligent. After Charlie had the operation he said he feels more alone then ever. He never felt alone or anger towards anyone or anything. Before the operation he felt like he had real friends but after it he had no one. He realized that the people who he thought were his friends were only making fun of him. In the text it sates "I feel a lot better today, but I guess I'm still a little angry that all the time people were laughing and making fun of me because I wasn't so smart." This piece of evidence shows how Charlie felt after he realized what his "friends" were really laughing at and what "pulling a Charlie Gordon really meant." He now feels angry towards them and this is an emotion

This operation changed charlie life for the better and he is happy he did the operation. Charlie is better after the operation,because he now knows the world around him. He feels sadness for the people just like him. Even if he got unintelligent again he had learned