Should Charlie Have The Surgery In Flowers For Algernon

What if you had the chance to increase your IQ level? In the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is the main character who wants to be smart and had experimental brain surgery. His “Friends” bully him and beat him up and he doesn’t know until after his surgery. After the surgery, Charlie is better at spelling and grammar. The climax is when Algernon bites him and stops doing the maze, he starts to realize that something is going on and he later finds out that Algernon has died from the brain surgery. I think Charlie should’ve had the surgery. First, Charlie should’ve had the surgery because he falls in love with Miss Kinnian. For example, we can see this event in the story when Charlie’s intelligence increases. He starts to realize how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is. Charlie expresses, “She’s only thirty-four! I think from the beginning I had the feeling that she was an unreachable genius–and very old. Now, everytime I see her she grows younger and more lovely.” (6) By looking at this quote we can see how before the surgery Charlie thought Miss Kinnian was old

For instance, when charlie realizes that his friends are laughing at him, Charlie got super embarrassed in front of a lot of people. Charlie explains “ Everyone was looking at me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide myself. I ran out into the street and I threw up… It’s a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me.” (5) By looking at this evidence we can see that charlie never realized that his “friends” were actually bullying him. However, some people say that it’s better that Charlie didn’t know that his friends were bullying him because then he wouldn’t have lost his friends. Nevertheless, If Charlie never found out Charlie would still be getting made fun of. He would still have bad friends and could possibly be beaten up again by