Analyzing Daniel Keyes 'Flowers For Algernon'

“How strange it is that people of honest feeling 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.” (Page 370 paragraph 153) In saying that you see that people really don’t think about it so the laugh and make fun of them for no good reason. Now onto the short story. In the short story “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie has an IQ of under 70 which is exponentially low for an average man in saying that he attends adult school, in one of his class’ he is recommended by his teacher Miss Kinnian to go do an operation to enhance his IQ to above two hundred. However, he is forewarned that it is unknown that it

However, in the script “Flowers for Algernon” by David Rogers, everyone that knows about the experiment is astonished by how fast he is getting his work done and the amount that he is doing is well ahead of any other human. This goes to show that the experiment worked a little too much. Then they decided to change it up a little in the movie “Charlie” directed by Ralph Nelson, he is tricked by the scientist because they new the experiment wouldn’t be permanent yet, they still decided to keep it quiet and away from Charlie and everyone else until Charlie’s intelligence leads him to the conclusion by himself which he then publicly announces in front of a big group on a stage. Then knowing that he will deteriorate so he is afraid of his old self which makes him worse off showing that human intelligence can not be artificially

It is also about showing Charlie’s own feelings as represented in the text when he states “I’m in love with Miss Kinnian.”(page 366 paragraph 120) That shows how Charlie is expressing his feelings about Miss Kinnian along how his intelligence has advanced into where he realizes these feelings because before the operation he didn’t understand the feeling of love along with know what it was. This P.O.V is also used to show Charlie’s character along with a better understanding. That said you see that Charlie is a humble truthful man with low intelligence in the beginning but, he is also very determined and has a lot of perseverance. This also shows a little bit of Miss Kinnian’s personality by expressing how much she cares about him. It also shows you that his “friends” are not his friends and they are just using him but charly still thinks they are his friends because they hang out with him. However, after the experiment he begins to lose all of his so called “friends” because his increase in intelligence makes him seem like a monster in their eyes. Which then leads to him losing his job which makes him upset, then Charlie realises that he will deteriorate meaning all