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IQ Of 68 In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

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Do you know anyone who has an IQ of 68. In “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68. He was given the option to have an operation to make him smart and he took it thinking that his life would be better but it made his life unsatisfactory. I believe that Charlie should never have had the operation. Here’s why. My first reason why is because Charlie had lost all of his friend after the operation. The guys from work he thought was his friends didn’t like him anymore, “They’ve driven me out of the factory. Now I’m more alone than ever before… ”(Keyes, 72) He had pushed Dr. Strauss away when he had come to check on him, “Dr. Strauss came to see me again. I wouldn’t open the door and I told him to go away.”(Keyes,
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