In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” the whole was being told from Charlie’s point to view. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” there are two types of characterization. There are direct and indirect, the short story has both of them. At some point he’ll talk about how nice Miss.Kinnian is and how nice his “friends” are. The only thing is that his “friends” are not nice and Miss.Kinnian is. In fact, Charlie thought his “friends” were nice until he got smarter. He then realized that his friends being jerks. When he went back to his old self, the thought stuck with him until his “friends” actually became nice to him. In the script “Flowers for Algernon” the script was in third person point of view. It had It had everyone’s thoughts and emotion. Their opinions were also placed as well. The script was also in indirect characterization. What they mostly talked about in the script was about how Charlie is getting so smart. …show more content…
It showed how Charlie’s “friends” were treating him. The movie was also direct characterization. The characters didn’t show the viewers who they really are. The Doctors were terrible. They didn’t tell Charlie he would go back to his original state. Mostly Charlie’s “friends.” They were just rude and disrespectful and Charlie thought they were just his friends. About the conflict, Charlie started getting a little smarter each day. People were still bullying him. Also he thought that they were his “friends.” He started getting smarter and realized that they were not his friends. After this. He found himself laughing at a kid that was just like him. That’s when he had no time left. He was getting back to his old self each day until he he got fully
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.
Character- The main character Charlie is developed in many ways throughout the story. His whole demeanor changed from page one. He actually started smoking in the middle of the book. “When I light it, I didn’t cough. It actually felt soothing. I know that’s bad in a health class kind of way, but it was true.”-pg 102 His personality was different after that. He always tried to be friendly to anyone he met but if you weren’t nice to his friends he didn’t really respect them after that. His dialogue is very similar throughout the whole book. He is very friendly when he talks and tries to be polite. Charlie is trying to make friends and keep them. He succeeds with some coaching from his english teacher who Charlie calls Bill. Bill gave him books to read and graded Charlie’s reports. “He says that I have a great skill at reading and understanding language.”- pg 9-10. A’s showed on Charlie’s report card but Bill gave Charlie different grades. The books Bill gave Charlie changed his mind about a lot of things. Bill developed Charlie through the whole book.
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.
Charlie's too smart for them now. He's even smart enough to assist with the research on intelligence enhancement. He's smart enough to suddenly perceive Miss Kinnian with new eyes...and fall in love. Everybody is Charlie Flowers for Algernon is such a beloved classic that it has remained in print since 1959 and is now in its 58th edition. It has received science fiction's highest honors, the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The plot of both the novel and film version of Flowers for Algernon share common similarities. They both feature a retarded middle-aged man, Charlie Gordon, who receives an operation to heighten his intelligence. Charlie’s IQ eventually surpasses human normalcy to reveal that the experiment did prove successful. In both the film and novel, Charlie became even more intelligent than the professors who worked with him. In the film, Dr. Strauss was embarrassed to reveal that Charlie was smarter than him. That played a milestone event in Charlie’s identification of himself. Slowly his intelligence began to decrease and he eventually returned to his original state of mind. Throughout the story, Charlie encountered many different emotions that he had never experienced before because he didn’t have the common knowledge to understand them. The episode when he was at the nightclub with his co-workers gave him the opportunity to experience betrayal and anger. “I never knew before that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around just to make fun of me” (Keyes 30). The plot for both versions also carefully depicted Charlie’s psychological traumas that he suffered after his operation. These outbursts were often caused by romantic anxiety and the painful memories he would recall. Whenever Charlie got intimate with Alice he would tend to get extremely nervous or have a hallucination, causing him to ruin the moment. “I dropped a fork, and when I tried to retrieve it, I knocked over a glass of water and spilled it on her dress” (56). One of Charlie’s most painful memories was the one about the locket incident. Both versions did a great job of emphasizing this particular moment. “His clothes are torn, his nose is bleeding and one of his teeth is broken” (38). These flashbacks occurred many times in the novel yet the f...
“Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1959, is considered a landmark work on both science fiction and disability literature,” (Werlock 2009). The American Library Association reports that this novel was banned as an obscene for its love scenes. When the main character, Charlie Gordon, increases his IQ from 68 to a level that makes him a genius (after received experimental brain surgery), his maturity leads him to fall in love with his teacher, and a sexual encounter ensues. This caused Flowers for Algernon to be banned and challenged in many places (Plant City, Florida- 1976, Emporium, Pennsylvania- 1977, Oberlin High School (Ohio) - 1983, among others). Most people consider the sexual scenes fairly mild, but there are those who consider any mention of sexual behavior inappropriate for teens or pre-teens, hence the attempts at censorship. Many of the challenges have proved unsuccessful, but the book has occasionally been banned from school libraries including some in Pennsylvania and Texas. Flowers for Algernon has won numerous awards, even for the film, and it is regularly taught in schools around the world; therefore, it should remain on shelves.
Charlie struggles with apparent mental illness throughout his letters, but he never explicitly addresses this problem. His friends make him realize that he is different and it is okay to be different from everyone else. This change in perspective gives Charlie new opportunities to experience life from a side he was unfamiliar with. Without these new friends, Charlie would have never dared to try on the things he has. His friends have helped him develop from an antisocial wallflower to an adventurous young man who is both brave and loyal. Transitioning shapes how the individual enters into the workforce, live independently and gain some control over their future
After the regression started he hur Miss. Kinnian emotionally. Charlie and Miss. Kinnian fell in deep love . But when Charlie regressed he didn’t want anyone to feel bad or laugh at him so he pushed them away.
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
At this time, Charlie is thinking to himself whether his friends are really his friends after they start to laugh and make everyone else laugh at him and that they were just using him to be popular. “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.(Keyes
Lastly, Charlie’s experience at the restaurant gives him an open mind. He writes, “There are so many doors to open.” [Keyes, p.371]. This shows that he is eager, ready, and that he has
Charlie begins noticing a difference in ability to learn and the intelligence that he begins to gain. His treatments have made a difference in Charlie’s life, but somehow, he remains pushing and pushing towards his next goal that perhaps he may never
Charlie had rose-colored glasses when it came to seeing people's personality. Rose-colored glasses are when you see stuff in a positive way and often thinking about it better than it actually is. ¨I said Miss Kinnian always said Charlie be proud of your job because you do it well. Everybody laughed, and we had a good time and they gave me lots of drinks and Joe said Charlie was a card when he's potted,¨ (228) That means he’s fun to laugh at and make fun of.
Charlie realizes that he was considered as stupid and that people are making fun of him. For instance after Charlie becomes brainy and learns the truth he quotes “I see that even in my dullness I knew that I was inferior, and that other people had something I lacked - something denied me” (Keyes 520). Charlie finally gets that even when he was lesser-minded he understood that something wasn’t right. What Charlie thought was friendship was truly just a false sense of someone showing human interaction (in this case bullying, not okay but something that occasionally happens) which in turn, his narrow mind found as friendship.
One thing that positively affects Charlie’s life is that he finds out his “ friends” aren’t his actual “friends”. (April 20 progress report 9) “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”. Charlie understood how others felt and how they treated other people. He could better connect with citizens. Now that