Imagine how life would be if you had an IQ of 68. What challenges would have to be faced in everyday life that you wouldn’t have to now? In the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes‚ Charlie Gordon chose to participate in an operation to make him smarter. Throughout the story‚ Charlie progressively gains more and more knowledge due to this treatment. Charlie finally escapes being trapped in the state of oblivion and now knows more than that average person. Obviously‚ that operation
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Society has become a shallow place. If an individual does not fit into societies form of the normal person then they are treated differently. But does society treat those who are different in a negative or positive way? In the novel Flowers for Algernon‚ the author Daniel Keyes shows an in depth look at the treatment of individuals in today’s society. Firstly society tends to discriminate against those whose IQ does not fit into the norms of our society. The physically handicapped in today’s world
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Would you ever have a surgery that gives you artificial intelligence like in the book “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes? In the Science Fiction book “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes the main character Charlie had an I.Q of 68. Charlie got artificial intelligence and it made his I.Q increased to 204. It was an awful idea for Charlie to have the A.I surgery. The surgery made Charlie I.Q decrees to 68. After the operation‚ Charlie began to go through a regression. Before the operation he
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Prior to reading Flowers for Algernon‚ I agreed with the statement that the smarter a person is‚ the happier he or she is. I believed that intelligence held a calming peace of mind in a person and somehow knowing everything made a person happier. After reading Flowers for Algernon‚ I realized this is not necessary true. We see the theme of intelligence trying to create happiness in the beginning of the novel. Charlie believed that if he became smart then everyone would want to be his friend and
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Flowers for Algernon Estimated 26% of people 18 or older are diagnosable with a mental disability. Charlie Gordon‚ a 37 year old man‚ has a mental disability and undergoes an operation to make him smart‚ but the result is that he becomes too smart and then hostile and eventually dies. Daniel Keyes portrays a theme in Flowers for Algernon that since some situation can come back and bite a person‚ be careful what you wish for. Charlie Gordon wishes he had friends all throughout the text‚ but when
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Everything comes at a price even intelligence. In the Science Fiction short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is a mentally disabled 32-year-old man named Charlie Gordon. Charlie was chosen to have a life-changing surgery to boost his intelligence three times. After having the surgery he realizes that the surgery is not permanent and begins to go into a state of panic. After losing his intelligence he is forced to move away from everyone he knows Charlie should not have had the surgery
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study of ones feelings‚ laws‚ and social norms‚ it also is used to constantly examine some ones standards; ethics is also the continuous effort to study our own morals beliefs and our moral conduct. Earlier in the month we had read a book named Flowers For Algernon. It was about a man named Charlie (Age 37) that didn’t know how to spell‚ read‚ nor write. The doctors‚ Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss give him an operation that is supposed to make one smarter‚ but the operation was still not out to everyone in
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In ’Flowers for Algernon"‚ Charlie Gordon’s doctor’s did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. Ethically means that ethics‚ are sharing’s‚ lessons‚ and meet ups. They all share towards your behavior‚ places‚ things‚ people‚ and goals towards getting something right‚ done‚ or fixed. Charlie Gordan is not the smartest person you know. Charlies is 37 with a IQ of 24‚ that levels to a 2nd grader. Charlie now acts like a 2nd grader‚ plays like a 2nd grader‚ also talks
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Essay (Practice) By comparing the ending of Alice Walker’s story “The Flowers” with that of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ there have been some similarities in the stories. Such as for the main character of both stories had personally faced a dead body. For Myop in “The Flowers”‚ she innocently stumbles onto the remains of a man who had clearly been killed in a lynching. She discovers the body when she saw the man cracked or broken large white teeth in the woods. For Emily in “A rose
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Although Daniel Keyes wrote “Flowers for Algernon” with hope for mentally impaired Charlie Gordon‚ the operation failed with grotesque consequences! After the surgery‚ Charlie was blown away by the concepts and uncertainties he now understood‚ negative and positive. He was a human experiment to fix mentally impaired people like himself. He understood the failure and cruelness of the surgery. Charlie suffered the consequence of losing his care-free‚ stress-free‚ worry-free nature. The societal conflicts
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