Comparison Between Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings

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Comparison Between Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings

There were many similarities between the short story “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie Awakenings. “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, is about a man named Charlie, who has a very low IQ. Charlie gets an operation to make him smarter. It is a story about what happens to him during that period of time. The movie, Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, is about how some people, including Leonard Lowe, the main character, developed a disease and are now catatonic. Dr. Malcolm Sayer finds a drug that seems like a miracle drug. The movie is about what happens during the time that the catatonic patients are on the drug.

One of the main similarities I noticed between the short story and the movie was that the movies both had something to do with experimental medicine and science, trying to make someone more like other people, without a disability. They both had something medical that doctors thought would be a miracle if the experiment worked. The short story and ...

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