Charlie Gordon is the main character of Flowers for Algernon. Charlie is a mentally retarded‚ 33 year old adult. He desperately wants to be smart‚ especially after a very troubled childhood in a family who had a hard time adapting to his illness. Charlie has a great attitude about changing his life‚ and was willing to do whatever it took to accomplish the task of becoming smart. Charlie partakes in a surgery to boost his intelligence that has only been tested on rats‚ specifically one named Algernon
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Argumentative Essay Charlie Gordon was a determined man. He wanted to learn as much as he could but he was unable to because he was mentally retarded. Meanwhile‚ his doctors were testing an operation which they wanted to perform on Charlie to make him more intelligent however‚ he would eventually lose his intelligence and knowledge leading to his death. He would be unable to connect with other people because he would be too smart. Despite these affects‚ people still believe that the operation preformed
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Charlie Gordon Essay In the story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes‚ the main character‚ Charlie Gordon‚ is very dynamic. He has to undergo many changes throughout the story‚ some of them were advantageous‚ but some of them were unfortunate. Originally he starts out as a man with an IQ of around 70‚ but after an operation he acquires a higher level of intellectuality. Both good and bad results arose out of this. For
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Characterization of Charlie Gordon from the short story: Flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon has all his life been mental disabled‚ but for just as long time wanted to be a geni-ass. One day he is given that opportunity and he agrees to let the doctors operate his brain. Before the operation Charlie is a very friendly man‚ who only sees the good things in life and trusts everybody. His lack of intelligence makes it impossible for him to see that his best friends are in fact victimizing him. (Report
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it is how this change is brought about. The processes of decision making‚ interacting with others‚ struggling and learning all come together in an event to change the human identity. It is the decision that launches you
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the same family. To be ethical you must go buy one’s felling’s of ethics. Charlie Gordon is a adult man with an IQ of 68. Charlie is pursuant about trying to become smarter. Charlie goes to a night school to get smarter‚ but it has very little affect. Charlie Gordon’s doctors did act ethically when preformed the sugary. The doctors consistently asked Charlie and Mrs. Kinnian (Mrs. Kinnian is Charlie’s teacher) if Charlie wanted the operation and if both of them where going to
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Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an IQ of around 68. For his whole life‚ he has only wanted to be "smart" like everyone else. Charlie has two doctors named Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. The doctor’s want to use Charlie as a test subject to test out a surgery to increase the Human IQ. Ethics are if you really did the "right" thing‚ so Charlie’s doctor’s did not act ethically when performing the surgery on Charlie. They had not kept their choices opinion free‚ they had not put Charlie’s social
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The story “Flowers for Algernon” is about a mentally troubled man named Charlie Gordon‚ who gets a surgery to make him smarter. In my opinion‚ Charlie’s life is better off with him being smart. Even though there are some bad things about him being smart‚ there are also many good reasons that he is. He is smart enough to know what’s going on. Whether it be at work or at the lab‚ he knows how people are actually treating him. In my mind‚ Charlie is better off being smart‚ shown through how other people
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Charlie Gordon is the narrator and the main protagonist of the novel‚ who has struggled the whole life toward the burning wish of "being smart". Over a nine-month period‚ Charlie keeps "Progress Reports" documenting his miraculous transformation from a mentally disabled person to a man of genius‚ which sets the stage for Daniel Keyes to address to the society a number of broad themes and issues. Charlie’s limited intelligence has made him a trusting‚ ingenuous and friendly man‚ as he assumes that
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Charlie Gordon wasn’t like the average person. He was a mentally challenged adult. People made fun of him and teased him and he laughed with them not even knowing what they were talking about. It was a very sad story but he still had lots of hope. All Charlie had ever wanted was to have friends. Doctors thought Charlie was special and he got the chance to get operated on so that he could be smart. Charlie was better after the surgery because he understood more about the world. After the operation
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