Shouldn’t all people have the same rights and choices in life? Charlie was put under a huge decision, whether or not he wanted to have surgery to be smart. Charlie is mentally disabled and has lots of problems. In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Charlie is put through a series of test and exams to decide if he was the right candidate to go under a procedure to triple his intelligence. When Charlie is chosen he is given the ultimate choice to decide if he really wants to go on with the surgery. I think Charlie made the right decision in becoming smarter and undergoing the surgery. Ever since Charlie was told he could become smarter he wanted it. Charlie tried as hard as he could to be smart without the help of the surgery. He would go into each exam and try to understand what each meant and did. When he raced Algernon for the first time he thought it would be easy as he realized that is was actually hard for him. Charlie kept losing to the mouse, but he kept trying to understand why. Until his mind came to a simple solution saying that the mouse was just very smart. With the rorschach test his brain couldn’t understand what he was supposed to do. He came to another …show more content…
He was always nice to the scientist and his “friends” at the factory. What he got in return was disturbing. He was made fun of for his disability. He was made fun of for the way he talk and how oblivious he was to most situations. He couldn’t comprehend people being mean to him he thought they were laughing with him but in reality he was just a joke. Charlie didn’t deserved to be laughed at and made fun of and to understand what was really going on he needed to become smarter. If he didn’t he would’ve gone the rest of his life thinking everyone was his friend no matter how poorly he was treated because he would always think of it as a joke. Without being smart he would be forced to live his life in a narrow point of
I Dr. Strauss, chose Charlie for the surgery, it got me a lot of grief from Dr.Nemur but I knew it was the right choice. Charlie is a man of low intellect but he is very cooperate, motivated, and not hostile. These traits are exceptionally rare in a man of 68 IQ. Another reason that Dr. Nemur and I chose Charlie was that he worked extremely hard in Miss Kinnians class. Working hard got him to be the best because he picked up spelling and writing faster than others in the class. Some other reasons I chose Charlie was because he did all the tests without much complaint. We almost lost Charlie when he tested against Algernon in the maze and didn't write the progress reports for 2 weeks. When the tests were to
Before Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because they always made jokes about Charlie, but he was not smart enough to realize it. As he gets smarter he loses his friends because they think he is just trying to act smart.
Charlie lived in a paradise-like world, he though he had many "friends". The only thing he felt he was missing was brains. When he was offered the chance to become 'smart' he jumped at the chance to be like everyone else. Unprepared for the changes intelligence would bring, Charlie lost his innocence. When he realizes his 'friends' don't actually like him they just liked to make fun of him.
Charlie starts off as a grown man who was abandoned by his parents at an early age due to hid disability. Charlie maintains as job cleaning the bakery where he was basically raised by Mr. Donner, the man who owns the bakery, and all the other workers there. Considering Charlie is not conscious that everybody else makes fun of him he goes along with all the jokes and harassments they make toward him. Given Charlie was happy at this time, it raises the question would he have been content if he had known that he was being made fun of?
We can all sympathize with Charlie on the surface, we have all made mistakes that we have to live with. Charlie is attempting to move forward with his life and erase the mistakes of his past. The ghosts of his past torment him repeatedly throughout the story, his child's guardians despise him and his old friends do not understand him.
He was able to see the world through the new eyes that he had gained from the operation learning new things about the world and being able to talk and interact with the people around him as a normal person. For a moment in time Charlie was normal ,and even after he had lost everything Charlie still learns in the end that even though he may have lost everything he was still happy to be able to finally fulfill his dream of being normal. In conclusion I still think Charlie should have undergone the operation for these reasons ,because in the end if he hadn’t he would have experience these many great things and finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming smart and
For Charlie, Ignorance is bliss. He realizes that his so called ? friends? were just using him to entertain their perverse humor. Also, he was also fired from the job that he loved so much because his new intelligence made those around him feel inferior and scared.
Dr. Nemur, Dr. Strauss, and Miss Kinnian were severe opportunists. They realized that Charlie did not have any friends or close family, which made him the perfect candidate for their experiment. If an unfortunate event occurred, no one would miss Charlie; furthermore, they used this to their advantage. In addition, if Charlie’s operation succeeded, mentally impaired people would be fixed. Society rejects the “Charlie Gordons;” though after the surgery, there would not be any more people like him anymore. Society would benefit from Charlie as an experiment. Moreover, no one told Charlie the potential side-effects of the operation. To ensure Charlie’s participation in the surgery, the doctors told Charlie the optimistic results instead of the negatives. By doing this, Charlie enthusiastically agreed to become the experimental applicant. Ultimately, the opportunity that Charlie was presented surpassed everything else in Charlie’s life. With the desire to become intelligent, the doctors said that they would fulfill his fantasy. In reality, they wanted to become nationally known, with Charlie as their ticket to success. The doctors did not care about what happened to Charlie, as long as they became famous. All in all, Charlie Gordon’s ambition and determination to be intelligent unknowingly led him to be a human experiment to fix mentally challenged
Charlie was such a great person, and that operation had taken away his friends, new and old. The bad part is, it didn’t even work. It didn’t make him more intelligent, and it took away his true friends. Charlie shouldn’t have had this operation, it might have even ruined his life. He moved away from everyone he loved. This operation did ruin his life, as a matter of fact. Charlie didn’t get what he deserved at
One main reason that I believe that Charlie was better off before is that he had nothing to lose. Before he had the surgery he was already low in intelligence and he could not understand much. In Progress Report 2 he says, “ Ill get it in a few minits becaus im not so fast sometimes. im a slow reader in Miss Kinnians class for slow adults but im trying very hard.”
If Charlie didn’t have the operation he would not be able to realize that Joe and Frank were making fun of him. Joe and Frank would just keep making fun of him and he would not be able to stick up for himself. Once in the story Charlie said,“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. Now I know what it means when they say "to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I'm ashamed” (page 524). Somebody who has been made fun of before should know that anybody would want to stick up for themselves. This shows that it was a blessing for Charlie to have this operation because now he can stick up for
To begin with, Charlie wanted to be smart like everyone else around him. According to the test, it says, “ I cant wait to be smart like my best frends Joe Carp and Frank Reily.” ( Page.6) He attended a school for adults with low intelligence in order to progress and become smarter. Charlie took many tests each day to see where he was. He was very convinced that an operation would help him become smarter.
Charlie having the A.I. surgery was a bad idea. Charlie after he has A.I. surgery starts having strong negative feelings, as he started getting smarter people became more and more afraid of him, after A.I. Charlie starts pushing people away.
The human need for affiliation creates the challenges and rewards of finding acquaintances, forming close friendships, as well as intimate relationships. Through technological advances cyberspace, or the internet, has become a place of multiple opportunities for people to be able to fulfill that need for affiliation. Websites, chat rooms, and online communities are just some examples of virtual platforms for people to seek others, come together, and find that special someone. These opportunities can result in positive outcomes allowing people to achieve what or whom they were seeking, but they can also result in harm to themselves and others, resulting with damaging consequences. Cyberspace does not come with a warning label. People who use the internet as a means to seek relationships are at risk of being exposed to positive as well as negative results. Being made aware of some of those risks and dangers, and realizing that forming relationships on the internet is not all fun and games, may be ways to help promote a positive future for cyberspace as a place to form successful relationships.
He was happy to have an operation like Algernon. The operation made him smarter it really did. But, I do not think he should've had the operation.. Charlie was getting so smart after the operation. He was starting to spell correctly and it was coming easy to him he even read the grammer book and understood it.