Sarah McHugh Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Points: 11 Period: 2 Flowers for Algernon The story begins with the main protagonist Charlie Gordon. He is thirty two years old‚ and works at Donners Bakery and goes to the Beekmin Center for Retarded Adults three nights a week. He starts off with an I.Q. Of 68. His teacher is Alice Kinnian and a major character in the story and becomes a love interest with Charlie as he progresses and regresses throughout the story. Charlie Gordon starts off
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Rationale#1: ¨ Flowers for Algernon ¨ After I finished ¨ Flowers for Algernon ¨‚ I thought that scientists‚ teachers and all people who had witnessed the progress of Charlie had an interesting apprenticeship about mentally handicapped adults. For that reason I thought that one of those persons could share his/her experience with Charlie during the months before and after the operation. One of the people who knew Charlie very well was his teacher-Miss Kinnian. As an experienced teacher of mentally
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Flowers for Algernon Summer Reading Book Report 2. Daniel Keys. 3. Novel 4. The setting of the story is New York City‚ while one chapter takes place in Chicago. There is no text that gives an exact date that the novel takes place but can guess it is around the 1960s‚ when Keyes wrote the book. The setting does not have a large impact on the book except when Charlie takes Algernon and is forced to hide in the crowded‚ urban city of New York. 5. The plot of the novel starts
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Wyrd Sisters: The Unwilling Hero There are many characters in Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters who can be considered the hero of the story. These include Tomjon and the witches. However‚ the Fool is the character who best exemplifies the hero archetype and the traits pertinent to all heroes. At first glance‚ it may seem like there wasn’t a character who is specifically chosen to be the hero and bring peace back to Lancre. Upon closer inspection‚ readers can find this quote "’You’d have to be a born
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Report: Flowers‚ Fruits‚ and Seeds Part 1: Flowers Directions: Answer the questions below using the picture of the Gladiolus‚ or Lily flower‚ below. 1. How many petals does this flower have? 6 2. How many stamens does this flower have? 5 3. How many stigmas does this flower have? 1 4. Is this the flower of a monocot or a dicot? Monocot 5. Explain your answer for question #4. This flower has petals multiple of 3. The petals also seem to have parallel veins. 6. Is this flower perfect or
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Flowers For Algernon William J. Brennan of the Supreme Court stated‚ "If there is bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment‚ it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ is criticized for sexual‚ religious‚ and unmoral themes and are the reasons for opposition. However‚ these examples do not give reason for banning any literature‚
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Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon‚ written by Daniel Keyes‚ is a book that is an emotional roller coaster. This book includes science that one day might not be fictional but may come true and will be able to be used on people who have intellectual disabilities in today’s world. The book starts with a man‚ who is mentally retarded‚ writing in a journal about them using him in a surgery used to change him for the better. This mans name is Charlie Gordon. He is the kind of man who works
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Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters is the play about seven related women who live on a reserve and go TO THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD in Toronto. The play takes place during a summer of 1986‚ on the fictional Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island‚ Ontario‚ and provides the portrait of seven Rez sisters who are all related by birth or marriage. The distinct personalities of each character are used to offer the audience a different attitude towards life and their role on the reservation
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Literature Response 2) Title & Author Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou 3) Thesis statement: “Then I met‚ or rather got to know‚ the lady who threw me my first life line.” 4) Summary: This story is about a young lady named Marguerite Johnson who looks up to and admires a woman named Mrs. Flowers. She describes Mrs. Flowers as a beautiful and intelligent woman that is "our sides answer to the richest white woman in town." Marguerite was a smart girl who did well in school but had a problem
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Jia Liang Zeng 11/11/13 Mrs. Guadagno Period 2 In the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes‚ the main character‚ Charlie Gordon‚ and he has a decision to make. Should Charlie make the decision by getting the operation to triple his IQ of 68? Charlie made the wrong decision by getting the operation because it brought pain; he was able to see the true side of his friends‚ and he was able to see the sad realities of life which he was oblivious to before the operation. He was happy
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