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Science is continuing its growth to impact the human civilization in such ways that could never be thought of before. Such growth is demonstrated in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes when two doctors, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss, perform a surgical operation on their “test subject” Charlie Gordon to attempt to triple his IQ. As astounding as that sounds, they didn’t realize that operating on Charlie could have many consequences. Charlie’s happiness decreased, the doctors did not follow proper ethical

Flowers for Algernon was a beautiful story that really spoke to me on many levels. Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man with a learning disability, struggles to read and write. He works at a factory as a janitor, and is verbally abused by his colleagues, though he is too dumb to understand that and assumes they are his friends. He normally attends an adult center to learn how to better his reading and writing skills. One day, he gets accepted to be experimented on by doctors at a local lab; as a result

Flowers for Algernon Imagine the possibility of a surgery that could dramatically increase your intelligence. Imagine what a change of life that could mean if you were a mentally handicapped person. This is exactly what happens in the story, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. Charlie Gordon, is a mentally handicapped man living alone in New York City. He who undergoes an operation that increases his intelligence he realizes how poorly he was treated by people including his family and friends

“Flowers for Algernon” is a story about 37-year-old Charlie Gordon, who has to write [progris riport] for Dr. Strauss concerning his everyday life to keep up with how he is progressing. Charlie has a disorder where he spells things the way they sound. For example, instead of important Charlie world spell it [importint] . Charlie is a hardworking man, in [progris riport] 3 Charlie states “ I [tyed] the [hardist] and I [reely wantid] to [lern]” this shows the reader more about Charlie’s personality and

get smart. When he got the operation he was getting frustrated because he felt that he had made no progress, we saw that he was making progress but he didn’t. He got really smart that other people thought that he changed. Then one day he went to a science convention and he found out that Algernon and him could die because they

Flowers for Algernon Essay Usually we don’t forget what we learn. But in the book “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, things are different.It is about how a mentally challenged man named Charlie Gordon has an operation to gain an extremely large amount of intelligence. The operation succeeds, and Charlie is a genius, but he then starts to lose his friends, and later on his intelligence as well. In the end of this book, Charlie decides to leave New York and everyone he was friends with. So there

“Flowers for Algernon” Persuasive Essay “Why would man mock the naive and the dumb yet cradle the weak, the crippled, and the blind”-Charlie Gordon. In the science fiction novel “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie Gordon, a 37 year old man with mental disabilities, so two scientists (Dr.Strauss and Dr. Nemur) decide he is the perfect candidate for a surgery that has the potential to triple a man’s intelligence. Charlie teaches us all never to use our ability to lern for granted.Charlie is much more

The Test that Changed Charlie Gordon Would you go through surgery to improve your intelligence? In the story Flower for Algernon, Charlie Gordon did just this. Now, this really didn’t work out for him. This test emotionally effected him. It worsened his life in many ways, such as these ones. First, It made him realize what others found obvious. His “friends” didn’t treat him so fairly. The lack of respect these so called friends had for him was rather outrageous. He soon began to realize this

In the story, Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon makes a decision to allow doctors to do an operation on his brain to ¨make him smarter¨. Because of Charlie being mentally handicapped, I think that most of the decision making for Charlie was based on hopes and dreams, and not medical arguments, therefore nobody made the right decision. The decision for Charlie to have the operation done is made by Miss. Kinnian, Dr. Nemur, and Dr. Strauss. Charlie’s disability causes limitation in intellectual

Flowers for Algernon “all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb.” In the book Flowers for Algernon a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man named Charlie Gordon has the opportunity to undergo a surgical procedure that will dramatically increase his mental capabilities. After the operation, he had difficulty making new friendships and establishing new relationships due to a lack of social intelligence that the surgery could neither correct nor anticipate. And in the end, Charlie went back to