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    FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON By Daniel Keyes Progris riport 1 martch 3. Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Dormers bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is

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    Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 1. Start of Something Good by Daughtry 2. People are Strange by Pink Floyd 3. Flash Back by Calvin Harris 4. Runaway by Linkin Park 5. Lonely Day by System of a Down Start of Something Good by Daughtry You never know when you’re gonna meet someone and your whole wide world in a moment comes undone You’re just walking around then suddenly Everything that you thought that you knew about love is gone You find out it’s all been wrong

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    In the story Flowers for Algernon the main character Charlie has a learning disability and he wants to learn to become smarter. So he undergoes an operation on his brain by Neurosurgeons named Doctor Strauss and Doctor Nemur. Charly´s emotions changed after the operation‚ for instance he became happier‚ he thought he was better than some people‚ and he didn’t become kinder.The first sign of him becoming happier after the operation was when he finally realized that he was slowly gaining knowledge

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    Charlie Gordon has been ridiculed his whole life for having a low IQ. His story begins with his initiative to have a surgery done to improve his intelligence. Daniel Keyes develops the characterization of Charlie in “Flowers for Algernon” in order to convey the central idea of how a journey for intelligence can affect people. Charlie’s journey to become intelligent has an impact and is influenced by the people he associates with. In progress report two‚ Charlie explains that “He (the man giving

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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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    to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard.” In the short story Flowers for AlgernonCharlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an extremely low I.Q. Throughout the story the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ takes us on a roller coaster of emotions‚ which are constantly changing. One thing that doesn’t change in the story was Charlie’s great want and need for acceptance. The author reveals the theme of the need for acceptance in the story Flowers for Algernon. It is human nature to want to fit in‚ and Keyes demonstrated

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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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    would want that? Charlie Gordon from Daniel Keyes’ story Flowers for Algernon was a 37 year old man with a mental disability‚ it was hard for other and himself to understand. That’s why eventually he agreed to the A.I. surgery.It is a procedure that could triple his I.Q. of 68 to 200‚ therefore making him practically smarter than the scientists who did the surgery. Charlie was better before the A.I. surgery.The following statements proves this…. people weren’t afraid of Charlie. He wasn’t aware that

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    Flowers for Algernon From the adaptation of Flowers for AlgernonCharlie Gordon is used for an experiment to surgically improve his intelligence. He then‚ started to digress and lost much of what he had learned. Though‚ Charlie may have thought that this operation was the right thing to do for himself‚ many oppose the theory that it is right to surgically improve human intelligence. Despite what Charlie did‚ it is wrong to surgically improve human intelligence. Many people have

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    Fiction Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a 32-year-old man with a mental disability which makes him lack intelligence. His name is Charlie Gordon. In the book Flowers for AlgernonCharlie Gordon want to be intelligent‚ he wants to fit in with his so-called “friends” like Gimpy and his real friends like Alice. He also wants his sister and his mom to come back to his life. So Charlie goes to his doctor and they test him against a mouse named Algernon that was once like Charlie but he

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