Quotes From Charlie's '

Charlie's opportunity to undergo the operation is not comparable to an evil act, it is simply a well deserved scientific opportunity provided by scientific advancements. As Charlie becomes brighter, he experiences some of life's harsh realities as we all do when we grow up. He learns that many of his coworkers at the box company enjoy making fun of him. He never realized why everyone laughed when he was around, but now he sees through the smiling faces. The truth hurts as it always does, but realizing there are some people around us who show signs of evil is part of life's lessons. Charlie begins to feel better, although he remains a little bitter about the realization of the cruelty of many people he spent time around.

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

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

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

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

Have you ever made a decision that you thought was good, but others thought wasn’t? Charlie made the decision to have the surgery. Even though he lost all the smartness he got, it was still a good choice. Some people may not think so. Him losing his intelligence is the only reason why the surgery shouldn’t have happened. But there are more and better reasons of why he was better with the surgery.

To begin with, Before Charlie got the surgery he had many friends. After the surgery he made people feel stupid. He scared them with how different he was from everybody else. Charlie has always wanted to be smart and to fit in with every body else. When he got the chance he was over joyed. He got overwhelmed with how much and how fast he was learning. All this achieved was hurting

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.

This quote proves that his mother, Rose, thinks lowly of Charlie because he is mentally handicapped. They would not even let him hold the baby, even though he was doing it correctly! His own mother, was not affectionate towards Charlie; she treated Charlie in an abusive manner. If a mother treats her son or daughter like an oppressor, that says substantial amount about her character. Joe and Frank are oafs that have no real connection with Charlie, so it is not as horrible. If a parent acts upon their children similar or akin to this, there is something wrong with

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

At first he doesn't recognize the changes, but after a while, he begins to understand that he is becoming a smarter being and that the changes are a good thing. He becomes a totally different person than what he started with. He starts out as a retarded adult, and after he has the surgery, his intelligence starts to progress along with his memory. Charlie keeps gaining intelligence and soon becomes smarter than the doctors he interacts with.

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.

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