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Flowers For Algernon Compare And Contrast

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The short story, “Flowers for Algernon,” and the movie adaptation, “Charly,” were both based off of the same book by Daniel Keyes, but they have some similarities and differences that greatly affected the plot. One of the similarities between the the two adaptations was that Charlie was a janitor at his job. In the movie, he was the janitor of the bakery, and in the short story, he was the janitor of Mr. Donnegan’s Plastic Box factory. This was important to the plot because it was a reminder to Charlie and his coworkers that he was mentally disabled, which, in turn, led to Charlie being made fun of at his workplace. One of the differences between the movie and the short story, however, was that the short story hadn’t expanded on Charlie’s relationship
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