Research Paper On Flowers For Algernon

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Flowers for Algernon
What would you do if you had the chance to triple your intelligence would you take it ? In a short story named flowers for algernon by Daniel keys, a boy named charlie Gordon is not intelligent and wants to become intelligent, and there is a surgery that can make you smarter. Charlie decides to do the surgery and becomes very smart and after his friend thats a test mouse named algernon dies, because he got the surgery to but he could not handle it after some time charlie Gordon loses his intelligence. This show that charlie Gordon is better of after the surgery because he is grateful that he had the chance to be smart and he got to see things differently.

One reason why Charlie was better off after was because he had the chance to be very smart in his lifetime. One evidence is when the author says “Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel bit.” This shows that he is grateful to be one of the smartest person alive and knew a lot of science, where he shows that he Knows a lot of science is the part where he says “I realize that Dr. Nemur is not at all a genius. He has a very good mind, but it struggles under the spectre of Also the story shows that he is grateful because Charlie does not get mad at Dr. Nemer or Dr. Strauss …show more content…

Charlie was better after the surgery because he saw everyone he knew differently like his friends in the book charlie says “ because you remember their not so smart as you once thot they were.”(21) this clearly states that he doesn't think the same way he did about his friends then before the surgery. But this quote also shows that he now sees them as just normal people, not super smart, and he also realizes that they were making fun of him. And he gets to see who his "friends' actually

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