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Flowers For Algernon Symbolism

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The short story “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie, Charly tells the story of Charlie Gordon both tell a story of a mentally disabled man that has an operation to make him smarter so he can fit in with everyone else. The movie Charly, changes the symbolism, point of view, and characterization of the story, “Flowers for Algernon,” which makes the movie more effective. The symbolism of the story changes from flowers to parks. In the story, the symbol is the flowers that were given to Algernon. The symbol in the movie are the parks that Charly played at, with the kids, and the amusement park that he went to with Ms. Kinnian. The flowers in the story represent Charly’s intelligence throughout the story, but the parks in the movie represent
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