What if the story “flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes was written in a way that most people understood what empathy when it would appear? Charlie Gordon is the main character and he wanted to get smarter however too to do that he had to get experimental surgery. after the surgery charlie has better spelling and grammar. then starts to read complex books example Dictrony, Grammer, and Robison Crusoe. His friends start to bully him, starts to fall in love, Algernon bites charlie of his peak intelligence, then the Algernon Gordon effect starts to appear and charlie moves away from Ny and dies eventually. Ultimately this story raises the question should charlie have had the surgery. In the story charlie should have had the surgery …show more content…
“Charlie expresses, April 18 I read the grammar book last night, and it explains the whole thing… and I learned how to use punctuation and my spelling got better as well, I got up in the middle of the night, and the whole thing …show more content…
Second, charlie should have had the surgery because he had further expanded science how well, For instance, we can see this event happens when “charlie proclaims on April 28 I found out what a Rorshach is. It’s the test I took before the operation, the one with the inkblots on the pieces of cardboard… we went through the cards slowly, One of them looked like a pair of bats tugging at something. Another one looked like a pair of two men fencing with swords, I had imagined all sorts of things, but I guess I got carried away”. Pg.5 (Keyes) By looking at the evidence we can see that before the operation that charlie was having a mental problem within himself and that was one of the reasons before the operation he didn't see anything before just saw ink, now after the operation, he can see that there is a hidden picture Ex. two men fencing each other, if charlie didn't get the surgery he wouldn't have gotten the chance again and