Who Is Smarter In Flowers For Algernon
According to CBS news, 15% of people are mentally handicapped, but what if I said that there was an operation to make a person three times as smart and make one normal. In the fictional story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, It is about a mentally handicapped man named Charlie Gordon that gets an operation that is supposed to make him smarter and get rid of his disability. The operation is tested on a mouse and it gets smarter, so they perform it on Charlie and it makes him smarter for a short period of time. Eventually the mouse loses the intelligence and dies. Obviously, there are more costs as a consequence of Algernon-Gordon experiment.
To start off, with when one want’s to gain intelligence it is expected to be permanent to use later in life. In “Flowers for Algernon” Algernon starts to lose information as fast as he was receiving it once he was at the peak of his intelligence.I know this because it says “I put Algernon’s body in a cheese box and I buried him in the back yard. I cried” (Keyes, 240). Then Algernon dies right around the time Charlie is becoming less intelligent, and when he learns of this, and buries Algernon. He cried because he did this experiment with Algernon because represents Charlie's future, and his upcoming well-being. Charlie later leaves New York …show more content…
Throughout “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie gains a few positive friends and it is when he is when he’s becoming intelligent. As a matter of fact Miss. Kinnian even went on dates with him, but only a couple weeks before that she was teaching him. For example the text says, “Dr Nemur appears to be uncomfortable around me. Sometimes when I try to talk to him, he just looks strangely and turns away.” (Keyes, 236). Furthermore if someone’s personality is vastly impacted some people may enjoy it but others may find them to have too big of an
To start off, with when one want’s to gain intelligence it is expected to be permanent to use later in life. In “Flowers for Algernon” Algernon starts to lose information as fast as he was receiving it once he was at the peak of his intelligence.I know this because it says “I put Algernon’s body in a cheese box and I buried him in the back yard. I cried” (Keyes, 240). Then Algernon dies right around the time Charlie is becoming less intelligent, and when he learns of this, and buries Algernon. He cried because he did this experiment with Algernon because represents Charlie's future, and his upcoming well-being. Charlie later leaves New York …show more content…
Throughout “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie gains a few positive friends and it is when he is when he’s becoming intelligent. As a matter of fact Miss. Kinnian even went on dates with him, but only a couple weeks before that she was teaching him. For example the text says, “Dr Nemur appears to be uncomfortable around me. Sometimes when I try to talk to him, he just looks strangely and turns away.” (Keyes, 236). Furthermore if someone’s personality is vastly impacted some people may enjoy it but others may find them to have too big of an