Charlie Gordon The Value Of Compassion

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Charlie’s statement translates into that people who value intelligence will not be given the same satisfaction they desire if they don’t contain a heart. To inaugurate, in the novel, Charlie Gordon states, “What you value is intelligence, but the mind without the heart isn’t worth a damn…”(Film). I agree with him in virtue of people without love aren’t living. There are those who are smart, but don’t have lovers. Gordon was facing trouble with loving Ms. Kinnian because he knew he would leave her intellectually. Charlie still knew himself. He couldn’t step away from his former being because that Gordon was equipped with soul, unlike the other. He shifted from a human into an android and he hated it. In his statement Charlie states how his older

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