Who Is Charlie Gordon In Flowers For Algernon

The storyline of Charlie Brown is focused on a very small social circle of young children. One of the main animated character is Charlie Brown who has various insecurities. The author made a common connection between himself and the character. He was a child who others preyed on and made a mockery out of. The comical was used as an example of a great American un-success story, where the character failed at everything he attempted to do. Charlie Brown was always prone to bad luck.

“I said Miss Kinnian never gave me tests like that one only spelling and reading. They said Miss Kinnian told that I was her bestist pupil in the adult nite scool becaus I tryed the hardist and I reely wantid to lern” -Charlie. Concluding that if you could feel smarter than you are now, would you. That's what Charlie feels like until he has an operation that makes him smart. The theme of this story I think is that people change over time. Like charlie changes throughout the story. In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes Charlie patarys the theme that people changed overtime.

When Charlie was intelligent he often got irritated at the doctors because they weren’t as smart as him. He had also dealt with a lot of emotion with Miss Kinnian, Charlie was in love with Miss Kinnian. When he regressed, he was embarrassed to see her because he thought she would think he was dumb. When Charlie was at a diner, he saw a kid with disabilities, and everyone was laughing at him and so was Charlie. He was upset with himself that he laughed at him because that kid was him before he had the surgery to make him smart.

He wears glasses but only for watching T.V. and movies. Charlie has a great motive because all he wants is to be smart for example, "After the operashun I'm gonna try to be smart. I'm gonna try awful hard. (p.11)". Charlie, being intellectually disabled, doesn't understand things, making him constantly happy. This is because he doesn't think about life. Charlie gets bullied but thinks they're being nice to him when they do things like "He really pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. I don't know why they say it but they always laff and I laff too. (p.23)". After the operation, he had a different outlook on life. He wanted to become smart so that he could talk with his coworkers about intelligent things like politics. Although, the operation made him too smart. His way of thinking was based on facts and intelligence, rather than emotion, feelings and instinct. Charlie was a genius and they weren't. He didn't know how to control his emotion because he never knew he had them, often making him go into depression and be

Estimated 26% of people 18 or older are diagnosable with a mental disability. Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man, has a mental disability and undergoes an operation to make him smart, but the result is that he becomes too smart and then hostile and eventually dies. Daniel Keyes portrays a theme in Flowers for Algernon that since some situation can come back and bite a person, be careful what you wish for.

In the short story “Flowers for Algernon,” Daniel Keyes leaves the reader saddened, stunned and ultimately forming questions. Keyes also highlights several characters, a particular character is a mentally disabled janitor named Charlie Gordon. He has a sixty-eight IQ, works at a paper factory in New York, and is oblivious to his surroundings. Gordon’s deepest desire is to increase his intelligence by doing an operation that has only been done on a mouse, whose name is Algernon. Soon after the operation is done, Gordon starts becoming a super-genius with more knowledge than most doctors. He understands elaborate mathematical equations and can read and write at an age beyond his years. However, his increased intelligence starts to “ware off,” Gordon starts losing huge chunks of intelligence, he is unmotivated and is overall ashamed. His three stages which include his wanting to be the one for the operation, his super genius self, and his deteriorating self-are important in Charlie Gordon’s character development.

The only problem Charlie has is that he wants to be smart. He is fortunate enough to cross an opportunity that would allow him to achieve his dream of being smart. Charlie would have to undergo an operation on his brain, and the results that he hopes for are not completely guaranteed. When Charlie does show signs of intellectual growth it opens up a whole new world for him. He is eager to learn more, read more, and he even wishes to speak with intellect.

Strauss and Dr. Nemur read Charlie’s progress reports and saw how he did on the test, he took they decided to due the same surgery for Charlie as they did Algernon. After having the surgery, Charlie went through a series of a test with Mrs. Kinnian, Charlie’s night teacher, and he began to realize he was getting smarter and he re-read his old [progris riport] and realize he was spelling [progris riport] wrong and noticed that he had poor grammar punctuations, and wants to go back and change things, but Dr. Nemur says no. On April 20 Charlie starts to figure out what “pulling a Charlie Gordon” means and he doesn’t take it very well also, the people that Charlie calls his friends at work Charlie is figuring out that they are not his true friends and they just laugh at

While Daniel Keyes in “Flowers for Algernon” portrayed hope for a mentally impaired man, Charlie Gordon, the operation failed with devastating consequences! Charlie was not fit for the world around him. The societal conflicts became a harsh reality for Charlie. He was ultimately a human experiment to fix mentally impaired people. Charlie was seen not as a human but as a test.

After Charlie noticed that the people he actually thought were his friends were not, he started to look at everyone else in a different perspective as if they did not care for him. He started to analyze how society really treated mentally disabled individuals. With having the surgery Charlie has become a different man, he actually is starting to raise his IQ, and visualize things for what they are. While Charlie was beginning to see reality, he loses his job and friends. Everyone began to see Charlie as a whole different person, and knew something different had happened.

Emily was not the smartest pencil in the drawer, and she always made other people laugh by her stupidity. However, later she realized that they took the laughter and made it into jokes about her and were actually always making fun of her. Charlie Gordon wanted to become smart like other people so he had a risky surgery on his brain, but the surgery worked for period of time and after a while he started to lose progress and fall back to where he started, so Charlie became a recluse for the rest of his minimal days. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, Daniel Keyes, the author, portrays the theme, Because of compassion, positive and/or negative consequences can occur.

2. The novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is told from a first person narrator point of view which means this story is told and narrated by the main character Charlie Gordon. This is a first person point of view since Charlie narrates the story through his progress reports, and those are journal writings which he is writing. You can also tell he is writing them because Charlie misspells words throughout the entries.

Introduction “Flowers for Algernon” was first published as a short story in 1958, and then in 1966 it appeared as a full-length novel. The novel is expressed as a series of “Progress Reports” written by Charlie Gordon, who is a thirty two year old man, who has got his IQ (Intelligence Quotient) of 68 was tripled by an experimental surgical operation prepared by Dr Strauss who is a neurologist and psychiatrist who performs the experimental operations. But unfortunately, after several months he becomes like he was before, and his intelligence Quotient was decreased to what he had before the operation. At the end of this novel Charlie was like he was used to be in the beginning of the novel. He had an enemy when his IQ was on at 68, a white

Throughout the novel Charlie’s personality and intelligence level changes a lot. In the beginning Charlie is happy, has friends, he’s retarded, and can’t remember a lot of things. “I fergot his last name because I dont remebir so good.” (Keyes 2),

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.