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Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

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The movie, “Charly” is a 1968 movie which was made to represent the novel of “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes. The 1968 movie was directed by Ralph Nelson. The movie had its many impressive scenes as well as some that might not have been as impressive or original. The movie was about a man named Charly who may not have been the brightest a person in life itself, whether it was school related or everyday life. Charly didn’t really understand some things not even if his”friends” would pick on him. He would laugh with them and basically at himself as well. He had the dream to become more intelligent but didn’t know how to be, especially since his lessons weren’t really helping him. At one point he began to give up until the scientists did this wonderful operation that completely changed his life and his point of view on things The main theme of the movie is that although Charly had been trying to give …show more content…

Charly tried to give up, but as much as he wanted to they were not letting that happen. Basically, a lesson to learn is staying hopeful and don’t give up because if you keep trying then you will get it eventually. After the operation, they all had the thought that it may not have worked due to the fact that Charly seemed to be the same even a while after the operation was done. Little by little Charlie became more and more intelligent and even more aware of things as well. This then made him have the courage to study and learn even more instead of giving

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