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Examples Of Connotation In Flowers For Algernon

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Justin Morin
Ms. Castonguay
American Literature
13 January 2023
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When faced with issues like Charlie is faced with Flowers for Algernon and it leads to a story of many twists and turns.
Flowers for Algernon tells us a story to give us an experience through many different progress reports and shows us how to learn and grow.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes uses many elements such as Imagery, Metaphors and Connotation/Denotation to convey the overcoming of obstacles and love in American society & culture.
In Flowers for Algernon, Keyes uses imagery so we can visualize the lessons he learns while overcoming life’s obstacles.
"Charlie, go to the bathroom. Don't you dare do it in your pants. He wants to obey her, but his legs are …show more content…

Nemur is increasingly getting strained over time and that he is slightly hinting towards a fight or possibly that something happened between them and they are growing apart from that. This all ties back to our them of Connotation because he is saying that they are growing apart and using a word and its literal definition to define what is going on with him and Prof. Nemur and he is getting worried I think because he is scared that losing Prof. Nemur would be the downfall for everything. The rhetorical device in this quote would be Connotation because Keyes is using the actual definition of the word and he is taking it and using it in a different way that some people interpret it as.
”Shut up! Leave him alone! It's not his fault he can't understand! He can't help what he is! But for God's sake...he's still a human being!.”(pg.199) …show more content…

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes used many elements such as Imagery, Metaphors and Connotation/Denotation to convey the overcoming of obstacles and love in American society to show the readers that there is hope but if you let greed get in the way of your way it will take over and make your start over.
Charlie is someone who has room to love everyone and has room to grow but he is someone who when he got smart he forgot where he came from and what he was like before and he had to learn the hard way that he is not better than everyone else because his IQ is higher than everyone else, with his relationship straining from Prof. Nemur and what happened in the Bakery he learned very hard that he was just like that boy in the bakery and forgot that which I believe caused the way their relationship became more and more strained over

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