Similarities And Differences In Flowers For Algernon

"Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional" Charlie Gordon of Flowers for Algernon refers to his intellectual ability in this quote, which is the focal point of the novel. More specifically, Flowers for Algernon is about a severely mentally challenged man who undergoes medical treatments that makes him intellectually brilliant but lacking in emotional intelligence. Eventually, the treatments fail and he reverts back to his original mental state. This book also contains sexual themes, language, and the dehumanization of the mentally challenged. Despite these things, this book should not be banned in middle and high schools because it teaches that we should love and respect everyone despite differences in intellectual or emotional differences, as well as insight into the mind of a mentally challenged person and the honest insight into the strain his condition puts on his family.

The idea of changing someone's IQ is an interesting thing but Charlie a thirty seven year old man who struggles with learning and wants to be smart will become smart as a doctor gives him this chance by having a brain operation, Charlie should not have had the operation performed on him. “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is a great sci fi short story that you can learn a lot from. Although I think Charlie should not have had the operation, some might say that he should have had it because he wanted to be smart so it gave him a taste of what being intelligent is all about. The operation done on Charlie had a negative impact on him in the end, poor doctor choses, weak animal testing and bad knowledge of the situation could leave many other

Flowers for Algernon is about a man named Charlie who is mentally slow and not smart. Charlie had an operation to make him smart. What the doctors did was unethical.

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”, -Henry Miller. When one reads this quote, it may have a different meaning to them than to others. To Charlie Gordon, it practically defines his life journey. In the shorty story “Flowers for Algernon”, Charlie Gordon is a main who obtains an IQ of 68, and desires to be smart. Charlie finally gets his dream one day by partaking in an intelligence enhancing operation. His perspective of life is much different before and after the surgery. Although Charlie seems happy before the surgery, Charlie is able to apprehend reality through a “pair of new eyes”, regarding the operation. Three arguments why Charlie’s emotions are happier following the surgery are: He learns about lies he had in life, Charlie had a positive learning experience, and Charlie discerns his full potential.

Author Daniel Keyes published “Flowers for Algernon” in 1959. Of course this was the short story version, later the novel was published in 1966. Daniel considered “It would be wonderful if it were possible to help the mentally retarded using artificial intelligence”. He thought, “What would happen if you were able to increase intelligence artificially?” He deeply considered all the pros and cons about testing his ideas on a human subject. There were very many pros, but also very many cons, just like the atomic bomb built by Robert Oppenheimer. For example a pro is that the atomic bomb ended the war on Japan. A con would be the loss of lives and buildings in Japan. Another pro would be that it showed how strong the U.S. military is. A con would

How would you feel if you were developmentally delayed do you think it would be ok for your parents to sign off for you to have a possibly life threatening surgery? In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes a thirty-seven year old man named Charlie Gordon has to face this challenge. He wanted nothing more than to be smart and fit in. He had the opportunity to have an Artificial Intelligence surgery to triple his I.Q. Charlie Gordon should have had the A.I. surgery because it made him feel he had a purpose in life. After Charlie had the A.I. surgery he saw the bad things his friends did to him he felt he had a purpose and he became smart even if it wasn't permanent.

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes is not your average book. It is written in a progress report format, and from the point of view of a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon. During the book, you follow Charlie's life before, during, and after he has an operation to make him smarter. It contains a lot of themes, but the theme that stuck out the most was both harm and good can come from technology.

Throughout reading the text and watching the film Flowers for Algernon, I’ve noticed an amount of similarities and differences. For instance, they both took place in a lab as well as a workplace for Charlie’s tests and experiments. In addition, another resemblance between the two is how Charlie Gordon started as a slow learner, became intelligent, then went back to his old habits while still having motivation in himself. Nevertheless, a similarity would also be how Charlie’s co-workers would make fun of him as well. However, it brought my attention when Charlie began falling in love with Ms. Kinnian and the movie includes Ms. Kinnian having a fiance, a husband who passed away, and being together with Charlie which I thought was surprising.

The movie flowers for Algernon and awakenings are both medical breakthroughs, but are yet both the same in some areas and then different in other areas. The movie awakenings is about a doctor named Oliver sacks who is helping out a patient who has Parkinson's disease and is in a frozen state that allows him not to be able to understand people how we do. Dr. Sacks ended up finding out about a drug called L-Dopa that then allows the patient with parkinson's to come out of his frozen state. He then gives the drug to the patient with orange juice, but it doesn’t work on him so then he gave the patient a very high dose of the drug with milk. After he did that it allowed the patient to come out of the frozen state. After it started to work he gave

The story “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie Charly have both similarities and differences in the way Charlie reacts to his changing intelligence and the way he feels about the situation. To begin, both works similarly show how Charlie feels about his scientifically increased intelligence. In the story, Charlie is overjoyed when he beats the lab mouse, Algernon, in a mouse. “I beat Algernon!” he exclaimed on April 6.

, changes the point of view, characterization, and foreshadowing of the story, “Flowers for Algernon,” which makes the story more effective.

In both novels, The Color Purple and Flowers For Algernon, the protagonist of each story starts out with little understanding of the world they live in, causing them to have very little knowledge of themselves and their identity. Both Alice Walker and Daniel Keyes use low diction, and a letter writing format to convey the intellectual and emotional change both characters undergo throughout each novel. Alice Walker and Daniel Keyes unveil these stories differently in the way that they characterize their protagonist. All in all Alice Walker and Daniel Keyes’s use of these literary devices evokes an emotional mood within the reader, allowing a clear view of these characters growth.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a classic science fiction set in southeastern New York, New York City. The fictitious prose traces a man's inner psychological journey within from a world of retardation to a world of great intelligence. Narrated through a series of empirical "Progress Reports", Flowers for Algernon follows the intellectual and emotional rise and fall of Charlie Gordon, a young man born with an unusually low Intelligence Quotient (IQ), as he becomes the first human pilot-study for an ambitious brain experiment. Charlie Gordon lives a life of comical, despondent and derisive experiences as he surfaces from mental darkness, through various phases of perceiving and understanding levels of knowledge into the light of

The first main character in Flowers for Algernon is the protagonist, Charlie Gordon. Charlie narrates the entire novel by writing progress reports. He is a 32-year-old man who is mentally disabled with an IQ of 68, but has an extreme motivation to become intelligent. Charlie states in his eighth progress report, “I wish it woud [sic] reely [sic] work alredy [sic] so I coud [sic] get smart like evrybody [sic] else” (24). Charlie is a very dynamic character; he is initially very kind, sweet, and naïve, but develops into an arrogant genius. Charlie’s teacher at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults, Alice Kinnian, is the second main character. She is a young, intelligent woman with soft brown eyes and medium-length brown hair. Charlie describes her in his eleventh progress report by saying, “When she smiles, her full lips look as if she’s pouting” (76). Alice is very kind and honest, and deeply cares about Charlie, as well as his well-being. She recommends him for an experimental surgery to artificially increase his intelligence, and represents emotional stability for Charlie. The scientist in charge of Charlie’s operation, Professor Nemur, is the third major character. He is an egotistical, selfish older man who treats Charlie as a test subject rather than a person. He is very insecure, and resents Charlie for his intelligence surpassing his own. Dr. Strauss, who works with Nemur, tells Charlie, “‘You’re making him feel inferior and he can’t take it’” (149). This shows that even the man who works with Nemur can tell he feels insecure and inferior to Charlie. Nemur is also quite intelligent, but very cold and lacks empathy and compassion for others.

In Daniel Keyes’ compelling novel, Flowers for Algernon, the main character undergoes both important emotional and physical changes. The book has an interesting twist, as it is described in the characters “progress reports”. This book has a science fiction undertone, and takes place in exciting New York City. As the novel begins, the main character, Charlie Jordan is thirty-two years old, but cannot remember anything from his childhood.