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Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

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What if you had the chance to change your life completely? This is the question Daniel Keyes answers in the story “Flowers for Algernon.” Charlie Gordon is the main character who wants to be smart and, therefore, has brain surgery. After the surgery, Charlie can supposedly be smart. For him, this means he has now improved in his writing, spelling, and reading. Because he had the surgery, he was able to experience love. He falls in love for the first time, but his relationship ends in tragedy. He was also able to go through a once-in-a-lifetime experience that almost no one will ever go through. He has his dream come true and becomes smart. His work companion, Algernon, died because of the surgery. Charlie researches him and Algernon and finds out that his …show more content…

He could also do an insane amount of research and would bring worldwide breakthroughs that could benefit everyone. Second, Charlie is correct in having the surgery because he was able to experience what love is for the first time. For instance, we can see that Charlie is correct to undergo surgery when he goes on a date with Miss Kinnian. Charlie declares, “I'm in love with Miss Kinnian” (pg. 1). 6. The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid By looking at this evidence, we can see that he realizes that he has fallen in love with her. Miss Kinnian, or Alice, was Charlie's teacher and helped Charlie and cared for him. She has always wanted Charlie to be happy and tries to improve his life for him every day. Charlie goes out with her after the surgery and realizes how beautiful she is to him. Charlie fell in love with me. Some may say, however, that the love wasn’t worth it. In the end, the love was destroyed and Charlie forgot the love that he had for her. Nevertheless, Charlie found love. Love is powerful if it's real and hiding true love can be

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Charlie makes a discovery for science and he wants Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur to appreciate his discovery. They had been previously researching artificially increased intelligence, and Charlie wanted to research it too because he wanted to find out what had happened to Algernon. He became smart enough to research the topic of increased artificial intelligence and come up with a full report explaining artificially increased intelligence. The words “I feel” show that Charlie has emotions and feelings which make him feel strongly about the hypothesis he concluded from the report, and he feels that it is important. From this report, Charlie makes a lasting mark on the world.

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Charlie should not have had the surgery. In the story “Flowers for Algernon” Daniel Keyes portrayed hope of a mentally impaired man, Charlie Gordon,the operation failed with devastating consequences. After the surgery, the social conflicts involved in Charlie's life became more aware to him. To fix people with mental challenges, like Charlie, he was made into a human experiment. Finally, when Charlie was a genius, he understood the failure of the surgery.

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For Charlie Gordon being smart is all he wants,or so he thinks, Charlie has wanted to be smart for so long for so many reasons. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Charlie learns that if you do not know then do not worry about it. After Charlie had an operation to gain his intelligence, the most important lesson Charlie learns is that ignorance is bliss. Charlie learns the lesson of ignorance is bliss through his friendships, situations, and his conclusions he has drawn in his writings.

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But in my opinion he shouldn 't have gotten the operation. Because its isnt helping him. A reason is that on June 15, in the story right after Algernon died he says “It’s a strange sensation to pick up a book that you’ve read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover that you don 't remember it.” (Daniel Keyes, 80) Another is on June 19, Charlie writes

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i’m ashamed. ”(Keyes 11). Charlie also realized that he really liked Miss kinnian. A quote from the book says “I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is. ”(Keyes 15).

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What do you the reader think? Yes or no to the surgery? I thought no too. The reasons why is that Charlie lost his job, became forgetful, and most of all, had thoughts of suicide. So back to that first reason,lost his job thing.

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In “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, details about Charlie’s relationships with people he works with are revealed and the first person point of view helps us understand what Charlie thinks.  For instance, in “Progress Report 8-Mar 25” Charlie writes, “Joe Carp said… what did they do Charlie put some brains in you. … Frank Riley said what did you do forget your key and open the door the hard way. … Their really my friends and they really like me,” on page 188.

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Flowers for Algernon Argumentative essay Intelligence is a valued aspect to many people, but it can be achieved in options that aren’t labeled “intelligence-altering surgery”. The doctors, Dr.Nemur and Dr. Strauss do not follow the ethics of fieldwork. They chose the wrong person, Charlie Gordon, to do the surgery on, and didn’t wait to find out that the side-effects include death. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, the doctors made a bad choice by choosing Charlie Gordon for the intelligence-altering surgery.

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When Charlie becomes astute, he wants to date his teacher, Ms. Kinnian, who is a teacher for adults. But as Charlie gets smarter and smarter, he isn’t able to spend more time with her and Charlie chooses to break up with her since she wasn’t able to teach Charlie any new information that he doesn’t know. Charlie was getting so smart that he wasn’t able to have conversations with anyone else around him. Second, Charlie should not have had the operation since he lost all his friends and Ms. Kinnian. For instance, we can see this event happen when Charlie states, “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved.

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In the beginning of the story Flowers for Algernon Charlie was a retarded adult that went to the school Beekman College where he went to learn three times a week trying to get smart . He keeps saying that he wants to become smart and that he hoped that they can use him for the experiment . Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur said that they can use Charlie for the experiment . Before Charlie could have the surgery he had to do some tests like the ink blots that he said there was nothing in them . Once he had the surgery he slowly became in love with reading and anything he could learn about .

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Lastly, nobody wants to die. After Charlie experienced all of these fascinating things, it will all be taken away not only by progressive amnesia, but by death, the worst cost from his adventure. Algernon the mouse died because of the surgery, and Charlie will soon come to the same fate. Charlie states, “I’ve got to try to hold on to some of it.

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One reason that Charlie was better off before the surgery was because he had the motivation to learn. on page 268, Charlie Gordon says, “Mrs. Kinnian told that I was her bestest pupil in the adult nite scool becaus I tryed the hardest and reely wanted to lern.” This means that Charlie had the motivation to learn to be smart and he tried harder than anyone, so that was why she

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Ideas and peoples actions became more clear to Charlie. Charlie also noticed his love for

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