Similarities Between Charlie And Flowers For Algernon

The movie Charly and the book Flowers for Algernon have similarities such as the tests that Charlie takes and differences like Miss Kinnian helping perform the test and Dr. Strauss being a female. All the tests shown in the film and the text were all the same. In both Charlie had to race against Algernon, imagine a story for a picture and do an inkblot test. One major difference however was Miss Kinnian performing these test. In the book all she did was recommend Charlie while the doctors did them, but in the movie she is doing them herself. Dr. Strauss in the movie is also a female rather than male. In the book Dr. Strauss was male and this is why he had some reason for what he did. His wife pushed him to become famous and rich from his medical