Comparing Flowers For Algernon And Movie Charly

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The short story “Flowers for Algernon” and movie “Charly” have many similarities and differences. For example, in the short story a mentally challenged man, known as Charlie writes progress reports to help him and Dr. Strauss keep track of his progress. On the other hand, the movie mainly focuses on his before and after the operation experiences. Also, Charlie has to face a variety of tests in the story, and one of the tests he faces is the inkblot test. Unlike the movie that makes Charlie struggle by making him race Algernon, and taking another test that helps him bring out his inner personality. Furthermore, in both the stories there is a mouse, Algernon, that has the same type of operation done on him exactly like Charlie. Sadly the mice

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