How Did Charlie Gordon Effect Flowers For Algernon
The Algernon-Gordon Effect
The reputation of Daniel Keyes is a result of "Flowers For Algernon.” In 1959, Keyes won the Hugo Award for best short story. The version of the novel also received The Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1966, for the best novel. As a reader of this short story, one could be overwhelmed with anticipation and emotion. Keyes enhances the story with the use of the progress reports and the first person point of view. The progress reports used in "Flowers for Algernon" make the story easier to follow and read Charlie's progress as well as his thoughts. Starting on March 5, 1965, Charlie Gordon writes these progress reports on a regular basis and continues writing them until the end of the story on July 27, 1965. Each entry is dated, this allows the reader keep track of the progression of the story. Sometimes these entries are made daily, and sometimes not so often. This gives the reader a feeling of the pace at which things are happening. On March 5, 1965 Charlie is thirty-seven years old and first hears about how they (Dr. Strauss and Nemur) can maybe make him smart, if he is chosen. A …show more content…
I have become absent minded, Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures." Charlie Gordon-Neurosurgeon. The results of the dissection were consistent with those of the report. The same thing has started with Charlie's brain. His emotions over the next few entries are very powerful. The reader can sense emotion and in fact becomes emotional him/herself. It is almost as if it were happening to the reader. A month and a half later, Charlie is bad. Keyes has taken the reader through ten journal entries, and what seems equivalent to a personal
The reputation of Daniel Keyes is a result of "Flowers For Algernon.” In 1959, Keyes won the Hugo Award for best short story. The version of the novel also received The Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1966, for the best novel. As a reader of this short story, one could be overwhelmed with anticipation and emotion. Keyes enhances the story with the use of the progress reports and the first person point of view. The progress reports used in "Flowers for Algernon" make the story easier to follow and read Charlie's progress as well as his thoughts. Starting on March 5, 1965, Charlie Gordon writes these progress reports on a regular basis and continues writing them until the end of the story on July 27, 1965. Each entry is dated, this allows the reader keep track of the progression of the story. Sometimes these entries are made daily, and sometimes not so often. This gives the reader a feeling of the pace at which things are happening. On March 5, 1965 Charlie is thirty-seven years old and first hears about how they (Dr. Strauss and Nemur) can maybe make him smart, if he is chosen. A …show more content…
I have become absent minded, Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures." Charlie Gordon-Neurosurgeon. The results of the dissection were consistent with those of the report. The same thing has started with Charlie's brain. His emotions over the next few entries are very powerful. The reader can sense emotion and in fact becomes emotional him/herself. It is almost as if it were happening to the reader. A month and a half later, Charlie is bad. Keyes has taken the reader through ten journal entries, and what seems equivalent to a personal