Flowers For Algernon Compare And Contrast
Flowers For Algernon Essay
Picture this, you have just read the best book ever, and you see they have a movie of it. You watch the movie, and intently hate it. Don’t you hate it when that happens? The movie, Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, is not true to the short story, either. There are many reasons for why this is. There are similarities and differences all throughout the movie. Some differences are major, that change most of the short story, and others are small. These will be explained throughout the paper.
For starters, the major differences. The biggest difference in the short story and the movie, was the relationship between Charlie and Miss Kinnian. In the short story, they have a friendly teacher-student relationship. Charlie, as he is growing smarter, realizes that he is in love with Miss Kinnian. In the movie, Charlie thinks she is the smartest teacher in the world. After Charlie has the operation, he …show more content…
For the most part, everything else was the same throughout the short story and movie. Charlie, starting out mentally challenged, had an operation that made him intelligent for a limited period of time. He thus becomes so highly intelligent, he feels disconnected from humanity. In the end of the short story and movie, he has lost all intelligence and becomes dumb again. The rest of the characters mentioned in the short story and movie were all the same. We got more details of the students in the class with Charlie, but everything was the same as in the short story. There were no changes to the personalities. Charlie’s co-workers were still mean and teasing to him before the operation. They would knock him around, make fun of him, and get him in trouble. He never realized this until after the operation. Charlie lived in an apartment near the campus, in the short story and movie. He also got his own lab for research. He did this when he found out what was going on with Algernon and started studying to find a
Picture this, you have just read the best book ever, and you see they have a movie of it. You watch the movie, and intently hate it. Don’t you hate it when that happens? The movie, Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, is not true to the short story, either. There are many reasons for why this is. There are similarities and differences all throughout the movie. Some differences are major, that change most of the short story, and others are small. These will be explained throughout the paper.
For starters, the major differences. The biggest difference in the short story and the movie, was the relationship between Charlie and Miss Kinnian. In the short story, they have a friendly teacher-student relationship. Charlie, as he is growing smarter, realizes that he is in love with Miss Kinnian. In the movie, Charlie thinks she is the smartest teacher in the world. After Charlie has the operation, he …show more content…
For the most part, everything else was the same throughout the short story and movie. Charlie, starting out mentally challenged, had an operation that made him intelligent for a limited period of time. He thus becomes so highly intelligent, he feels disconnected from humanity. In the end of the short story and movie, he has lost all intelligence and becomes dumb again. The rest of the characters mentioned in the short story and movie were all the same. We got more details of the students in the class with Charlie, but everything was the same as in the short story. There were no changes to the personalities. Charlie’s co-workers were still mean and teasing to him before the operation. They would knock him around, make fun of him, and get him in trouble. He never realized this until after the operation. Charlie lived in an apartment near the campus, in the short story and movie. He also got his own lab for research. He did this when he found out what was going on with Algernon and started studying to find a