Canadian author Susan Niselen once said, “Different people are smart in different ways” (Quotefancy). Different types of intelligence manifest in different ways, such as playing a song after hearing it once or the ability to draw a whole city after seeing it for just a few minutes. According to Howard Gardner, intelligence is “intelligence is not defined by a single ability, but by different types of related abilities.” Furthermore, three stories support how different people can use their intelligence. The titles of the three stories are: “Flowers for Algernon”, “Blue Nine and Red Word,” and “Is Personal Intelligence Important.” Intelligence always changes and never stops; however much our intelligence improves is up to us. Every person has …show more content…
He couldn’t even win against Algernon, the mouse. Algernon had the same surgery as Charlie Gordon. However, after the surgery, Charlie showed a rapidly increasing knowledge of many types of intelligences such as visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, logical-mathematical, and naturalistic. Charlie shows his interpersonal intelligence improving when he notices his friends are not real friends, they are using him. A quote from Flowers for Algernon says: “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.” A way to show his linguistic intelligence is his mastery over punctuation, literally overnight. According to Charlie, “I am getting smarter every day. I know punctuation and I can spell well. I like to look up all the hard words in the dictionary and I remember them.” We can choose which way we are intelligent by working hard and struggling. The “Blue Nine and Red Word” shows cases of how some conditions improve a certain intelligence. Daniel Tammet is the main character of an article; he has a rare condition known as savant …show more content…
The number 11 is friendly and 5 is loud.” Daniel Tammet has a different way of thinking about the numbers. Daniel Tammet has a special routine that affects virtually every aspect of his life: “I eat exactly 45 grams of porridge for breakfast each morning; I weigh the bowl with an electronic scale to make sure.” He feels mad if we can not do this routine. Some people are very intelligent in one way or another. Daniel Tammet is less intelligent than other people, however in mathematics he is one of the best people in the world. People can be intelligent with only one intelligence. This one intelligence can change daily life. In the “Is Personal Intelligence Important?”, John Mayer, a psychologist, talks about the relationship between personality and intelligence, and how it affects our lives. According to John Mayer, personal intelligence is the capacity to reason about personality as a whole—including our motives, emotions, thoughts, values, and self-control. Mayer highlights the significance of self-awareness and self-management in personal and professional success through the
In the short story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, a thirty-seven-year-old man named Charlie Gordon has a low intelligence level. Charlie is chosen for an operation(after taking many tests) that could increase his intelligence level. Algernon(a white mouse) had the same operation done on him. The first test Algernon has to run through a maze while Charlie does one on paper. When Charlie loses to Algernon, he begs for the operation. After Charlie has his operation, he becomes insanely smart and can beat Algernon without even trying. Months after the operation things start to go downhill for Charlie and Algernon. They both experience a decrease in their intelligence level and show aggressive actions. Weeks later Algernon dies because of a brain shrinkage. Charlie is now worried about his fate so he publishes the experiment(The Algernon-Gordon effect) which shows how the operation fails. After the publication, Charlie moves to
Algernon is a mouse. He's a special mouse, Charlie Gordon is told, and it must be true, because whenever Charlie and Algernon run a race (Algernon is in a real maze; Charlie has a pencil-and-paper version), Algernon wins. How did that mouse get to be so special, Charlie wonders? The answer is that Algernon's IQ has been tripled by an experimental surgical procedure.
Howard Gardner used to define intelligence as “the ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings” (Gardner 33). The modern day human being would most likely include the words “smart” and “dumb” in their definition of intelligence. Gardner questioned the belief of only one intelligence so he created his own theory that involved seven different discoveries. He didn’t want to call these discoveries “skills” or “talents” or gifts” because those all suggested a drawback so he decided on the word “intelligence,” creating his theory of multiple intelligences (Gardner 33). Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences including, linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, intrapersonal and interpersonal, has many implications for modern education and culture.
Charlie soon becomes aware that his smartness may not stay forever, that he might lose his genius. He starts to research the experiment himself. He studies a little mouse named Algernon who they did the experiment on first. Charlie starts to become attached to the little white mouse. Together they are the smartest of their species. When Charlie and Algernon have to go Chicago for an interview, Charlie gets so frustrated at how all the scientists are talking as if before the operation Charlie wasn’t a real person. In his frustration he accidentally on purpose let Algernon go.
In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, A 32 year old mentally disabled man, Charlie, gets offered to do a study in which he may get smarter. Charlie is excited to do it but permission was needed so they asked his Mother and she agreed. “I had more crazy tests today in case they use me”(Keyes 4). He starts doing progress reports to keep track of any changes that may happen during the project. He works at a bakery with his co workers which he calls them his “friends” and his boss who cares for him. His co workers take advantage of him and make fun of him but Charlie does not know and understand that yet because he’s mentally disabled. “Joe Carp
Firstly, Charlie's operation turns him into an extremely intelligent person. Charlie becomes much smarter as the novel unfolds. A little after his operation Charlie's IQ slowly starts to increase. He finally beats Algernon after losing to him in a race repeatedly. After the victory Charlie says, " I beet Algernon. I dint even know I beet him until Burt Selden told me…But after I beet him 8 more times. I must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon."(Keyes 30). Algernon is a smart mouse, who has undergone the same operation as Charlie. Charlie victory shows his increase of knowledgeable. This also shows that his brain is developing. Charlie then gains more knowledge. After writing a few more progress reports one can see a huge change in Charlie's writing, especially in his grammar. While having a conversation with Joe, Charlie says, "Everybody on the floor came around and they were laff laughing…you been here long enuff enough."(Keyes 34). By correcting his own mistakes, Charlie shows that he is progressing towards a more educate...
”And she said, Charlie, you’re going to have a second chance. If you volunteer for this experiment you might get smart. They don’t know if it will be permanent but there’s a chance.” This story is about Charlie, who has an IQ of 68 and is extremely unintelligent, becoming smart through an operation, along with a mouse named Algernon. It shows how he changes and what eventually happens in the end.
I dint even know I beet him until Bert Selden told me.” In the second quote, Charlie’s spelling, as well as what he accomplishes, shows he is becoming smarter. Charlie also acknowledges capitalization in proper nouns, as well as punctuation. He hasn’t reached the peak of his intelligence as of yet, but the complete results of the operation have not set in yet. This quote also explains a turning point in Charlie’s life and the story. He beat Algernon in the maze test. Algernon has also had operation performed on him, but Algernon still beat Charlie prior to the operation. This shows Charlie’s low intellect and Algernon’s advanced intellect due to the
The novelette, “Flowers for Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes and the film Charly, written by Jeff Bleckner, both tell the story of a man named Charlie Gordon, who struggles with a mental disability. This young man experiences an experimental procedure intended to increase his knowledge in order for him to be able to read and write like others. He later discovers the procedure’s effects are only temporary, and he returns to his original state of disability. Although “Flowers for Algernon” and Charly are similar in conflict, they greatly differ in their characters and setting.
“Flowers Of Algernon” Blended Essay “Flowers Of Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes, is a story that had me thinking about my intelligence. I told myself that I need to get smart and when I do get smart I will find something good I can use it for and maybe even make a career out of it. So, I had to have a very important conversation with my mom about getting smarter and my “mom said that I should work harder to get smarter” I agreed. So I decided to take my moms advice and start to work harder to get smarter, this discussion really reminded me of a story that I read in english called “Flowers Of Algernon” by David Keyes. the story is about a guy named Charlie that is mentally handicapped and Charlie really wants to be smart and normal like everyone
Charlie did not spell well, and his use of syntax was as bad, but he took night classes for slow adults to help him out, which is instructed by Miss Kinnian, whom he is really fond of. Miss Kinnian thought Charlie was her best student, and so she suggested him for an experiment conducted by Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss that triples his intelligence. For the experimentation, Charlie takes a series of tests: the Rorschach test, the Thematic Apperception Test, and a race in which he had to race a mouse named Algernon. The race made Charlie feel “worser than all the others because they' did it over 10 times with different amazeds and Algernon won every time” (pg. 2). Charlie thinks he lost because “Algernon is a white mouse. Maybe white mice are smarter than other mice.” (pg.
In the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the central thesis that he tries to point out is that emotional intelligence may be more important than I.Q. in determining a person’s well being and success in life. At first I didn’t know what Goleman was talking about when he said emotional intelligence, but after reading the book I have to say that I agree completely with Goleman. One reason for my acceptance of Goleman's theory is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. To me, emotions can be just as intelligent as your I.Q. In this essay I hope to provide sufficient evidence to show why I agree with Goleman’s thesis on emotional intelligence.
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence focuses more on how numerical expressions of human intelligence are not a full and accurate depiction of people’s abilities (McFarlane, 2011). He includes and describes eight intelligences that are based on skills and abilities that are valued within different cultures. The eight intelligences include visual-spatial (e.g. sailor navigating with no navigational systems), verbal-linguistic (e.g. poets, writers, orators, and communicators), bodily-kinesthetic (e.g. dancers, athletes, surgeons, craftspeople), logical-mathematical (e.g. mathematicians and logicians), interpersonal(e.g. salespeople, teachers, clinicians, politicians, and religious leaders), musical (e.g. musicians and
Gardner believes that all people excel in at least one category of intelligence. However, he cautions teachers using the multiple intelligence approach in the classroom: “Do not label kids as ‘spatial, but not linguistic’ or, for that...
Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard, introduced his theory of multiple intelligences in 1983. Multiple intelligence’s is a theory about the brain that says human beings are born with single intelligence that cannot be changed, and is measurable by a psychologist. Gardner believes that there are eight different intelligences in humans. The eight are verbal linguistic, visual spatial, bodily kinesthetic, mathematical logic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist. Understanding these intelligence’s will help us to design our classroom and curriculum in a way that will appeal to all of our students. We might also be able to curve discipline problems by reaching a student in a different way. One that will make more sense to them and more enjoyable. We can include all of the intelligences in lessons to accommodate all of the students’ different learning styles at once. By reaching each students intelligence we can assume that a student will perform better which, could mean students retaining more important information. A students learning style can also help lead them into a more appropriate career direction. As a teacher you can also learn your own personal learning style or intelligence to help improve the way you learn and teach.