Algernon: What Is The Cause Of Charlie's Surgery?

Charlie should not have gotten surgery. This is because the intelligence gained from the surgery was not permanent which causes Charlie a lot of pain. Once he had the surgery, he finds out he may die this affects Charlie greatly. Lastly, Charlie is being all alone with no friends or family at the end of the story. This story is based on a person named Charlie, who has a learning disability but is allowed to have a surgery to fix this and to fulfill his dream of becoming smart. After, the operation, he starts getting a lot of very bad side effects. The surgery was a bad idea Charlie also made it clear that after the surgery he was not happy with losing the knowledge and felt really awful which is another reason he should not have had the surgery.

During the story, Charlie believes intelligence is very important, so he takes the risk of having the surgery, but when he figures out that he will lose the knowledge it causes him distress. Charlie says ’Oh god, please don’t take it all away’(Keyes 23). This statement explains how Charlie must be feeling about the surgery now because he is going to lose it all in the end. As the story progresses, Charlie becomes smarter and understands more about the side effects and about the way Algernon turned and how he died. Charlie decides to research what went wrong with Algernon and whether it was the surgery or just natural causes so because Charlie was so advanced academically, he found out a lot of information which helped him to find out whether his knowledge would be permanent or not. When researching this Charlie found that the same side effects and the same result would become of him, this is said by Charlie here ’Artificially increased intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase.’(Keyes23). This shows how smart Charlie is by just looking at the words, but he also says that he is going to lose it all at the end. The fact that he chooses to do this is very upsetting because this is very painful to go through. Although he is happy to be smart for a short period of time it

There is a lot of evidence regarding Charlie’s death. This is shown because Algernon went through the same side effects and died. Charlie also understands this and he writes ’Everyone identifies me with Algernon in a way we’re both the first of our kind.’ This shows that because of the relation towards the surgery they will come out with the same result and that means that Charlie will also die. During the end of the story, Charlie understands that he will most likely die from the surgery also because he has been through the same side effects and surgery as Algernon, he died and this shows that Charlie will do the same Charlie explains that ’ guess the same thing is or will soon be happening to me’ this proves that he will die because Charlie is smart enough to know what will be happening to himself because his IQ is about 200 and he is very smart so his prediction must be correct. To conclude Charlie will die from the surgery and it was not right to risk his life like this. Also, Charlie chose to have the operation when he was not very smart which makes the situation worse because he should not have had the choice because he did not have enough knowledge to