Flowers For Algernon Comparison Essay

Flowers for Algernon is a book and a movie and they are both about a man named Charlie Gordon. He lives in New York City and he is cognitively impaired. The book was written by Daniel Keyes. The movie about Flowers for Algernon and the book are both similar and different. One of the main differences, is Charlie’s interactions with the doctors. The doctors are named Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur in the book, however they are named Dr. Strauss and Dr. Stinson during the movie. In the movie, the doctors and Charlie argue a lot more than they do in the book. Even though most of the scenes with the doctors are similar in both the book and the movie, there is one scene in the movie that never happened in the book. While at the conference in Chicago, Charlie confronts the doctors and showed their experiments are failing, humiliating them in front of everyone. On the contrary, there was a scene in the book that didn’t happen in the movie. In the book, before the operation, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss get in an argument about whether to use Charlie or not and Charlie overhears them. During the movie, there was never a scene like this.

Even though in both the book and the movie, Miss Kinnian was Charlie’s teacher, there are still a few differences regarding Charlie’s relationship with Miss Kinnian in the book and the movie. In both the movie and the book, Charlie starts out thinking of Miss Kinnian as his teacher, yet towards the end of the book, Charlie starts to think of her as more that. However, Miss Kinnian does not share these feelings. This is sad for Charlie. On the contrary, both Charlie and Miss Kinnian share these feelings towards each other. Throughout the book, Charlie has trouble talking to Miss Kinnian and voicing his feelings, yet in the movie he talks to her easily. There are similarities and differences regarding Charlie’s relationship with Miss