...While Daniel Keyes in “Flowers for Algernon,” portrayed hope for a mentally impaired man, Charlie Gordon, the operation was unsuccessful with devastating consequences. Therefore, Charlie should not have had the surgery; nevertheless, Charlie did not regret the surgery. After the operation, the conflicts between societies developed into something existent for Charlie that he had never experienced before. Charlie was thrilled with the research in effort to make him an ordinary human. What Charlie could not apprehend is that he was merely used as a human experiment to modify other mentally impaired individuals. The failure of the operation permitted Charlie, as a genius, to recognize every individual problem. Following the surgery, impediments in humanity on an ordinary day grew into reality for Charlie. After Charlie underwent the surgery, the societal conflicts of daily life became apparent to him. Charlie worked with two men at the factory whom he thought were his best friends. These men, Joe Carp and Frank Reilly, offended Charlie with incredibly impolite comments towards Charlie’s behavior. Of course, Charlie could not comprehend these remarks that were concerning him. After the operation, Charlie began to understand that Frank and Joe treated him in a discourteous way for the reason that he was abnormal; Charlie’s confidence began to decrease, knowing this. Shortly, a petition was arranged to contract Charlie Gordon from his job as a janitor at the factory. Each person from...
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...scientist to experiment with his body. Charlie thought he was best friends with Joe Carp and Frank Reily, but they just played around with him. When Charlie became intelligent he understood that they were not his friends. Joe and Frank felt inferior. They wrote a demonstration paper to the boss that Charlie should quit his job. They got it through and he eminently got fired. Miss Kinnian was a teacher at a university. The goal there was to make experiments with Charlie. Miss Kinnian learn Charlie to read and write and always stood up for him. They started to get feeling for each other but Charlie had hallucination when they touched each other. When Charlie intelligents became greater than Miss Kennian did she feel scared and inferior. Even Charlies feelings changed, from worship, love, sympathy to gratitude. During a short time when they were on the same level of intelligence became they a couple. Miss Kennian left him when Charlie became dumb again. She was always there for him. Algernon is mouse who went through the same experiment as Charlie. Charlie did not like him because he always won over him in the maze. One day Charlie won and he was very proud. Charlie felt sorry for Algernon and wanted to be his friend. One day when Charlie and Algernon were going to participated in a lecture did Charlie suddenly release Algernon from his cage. He took him home to his apartment and cared for him. Algernon got worse and worse after all experiments in the lab and died after a while. ...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist in the short story “Flowers of Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes. He is a 37 year old with a mental disability and an IQ of 68. Charlie works as a janitor and although he has quite a low IQ, he has a good attitude about changing his life, and to do whatever it takes for him to get smarter. Charlie goes to Miss Kinnian’s class for slow adults to get better at spelling and writing and potentially get smarter. Miss Kinnian teaches literacy skills to mentally retarded adults because she believes that being mentally disabled doesn’t make you less of a Human. Charlie and Miss Kinnian start out the story with a teacher-student relationship, but soon, it becomes a little more than back, but as the story reaches it’s end, it goes back to that teacher -student relationship. Throughout the story, we can see that she unwavering care for Charlie and accepts him as his IQ goes up from 68, and then comes back down to 68. She finds that Charlie has a genuine desire to learn, so she recommends him to Dr.Nemur and Dr. Strauss to be the subject of an experiment that increases the intelligence. Dr. Nemur is an arrogant self-centered carrier obsessed psychoexperimentalist who thinks of Charlie as a lab rat instead of a human being. He is quite agitated by his wife who is pushing him all the time to get things published so that he could become famous. Dr. Strauss is neurosurgeon who seems to care at least a little bit about Charlie. He is 50 years old and according...
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...Charlie Gordon is the protagonist of “Flowers for Algernon”, which is written by Daniel Keyes. He is a mentally retarded man who volunteers to go through a experimental brain operation. It was supposedly going to make him a genius. Charlie is determined to become an astute man, but lots of obstacles get in his way. Charlie is a static character since his spelling, low intelligence level, and his belief in superstitions has stayed the same all through the story. His spelling in the beginning of the story is comparable to his spelling in the end. It is seen through his progress reports. His spelling was terrible at the beginning of the story since he has an IQ, an intelligence quotient, of sixty eight. This number is lower than the IQ of an average person, so a bunch of things in his daily life are affected, such as his ability to learn, and remember things. Having a hard time to learn means that Charlie could not remember how to spell. The quote, “I think I faled it”, is a segment from the beginning of the story, proving his spelling skills are not too strong. His not too strong spelling skills still move on towards the end of the story. Charlie still cannot spell quite a few words properly. His IQ has moved back to the same number since the scientists have predicted incorrectly. He has never been able to spell properly, and it has not gone away yet. The quote, “But if I try and practis very hard, Ill know what all the words are”, is a section from the end of the story proving...
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...In “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie is a man with a very low intellect. He goes through a surgery as a test subject to triple his intelligence. The surgery works and Charlie’s intelligence exceeds his teacher, the doctors that came up with and performed the surgery, and his friends and coworkers. Charlie’s way of life worsens due to the surgery. There are many reasons why Charlie’s life worsens. His friends Joe and Frank work with him at a plastic box factory and they invite him to lots of parties. In the text it says “It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say to pull a Charlie Gordon.” This shows how Charlie lost all his “friends”...
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...“Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart.” (Keyes, 53) Is what Charlie Gordon tells the readers as he is writing in his progress report. In the story “Flowers For Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68. He doesn’t spell very well and really tries as hard as he can to fix that. There is an operation that helps him and triples his IQ, but there are many side effects. He will eventually die of brain deterioration which ultimately makes him end up moving away so that his teacher, Miss Kinnian, and the doctors don’t feel sad. I really do not think Charlie should have gotten the operation. First and foremost, he will eventually die of brain deterioration. After Charlie triples his IQ, he starts some more research about his operation and the mouse they did it on first, Algernon. After a while, Algernon dies. Charlie gets a little suspicious and does an autopsy. He finds out that he died because of the operation and he lost a lot of brain mass. “Dissection shows that my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as deepening and broadening or brain fissures. I guess the same thing is or will soon be happening to me.” (Keyes, 80) He is realizing that his brain is doing the same thing. As a result, he moves away from the lab, his home, for good. He doesn’t want the doctors or Miss Kinnian to feel sorry or sad for him. When he is moving away, he...
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... Daniel Keyes's science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” is about a boy named charlie gordon who was chosen to be involved in an experimental surgery that was said to triple his intelligence. the reason that he was selected for this is because he has an extremely low IQ level. although he faces many hardships throughout the story, he is determined to succeed. That is why I think that the theme of the story is that if you put your mind to something, you can accomplish anything. First, at the beginning of the story, charlie is just an average person with an immense desire to become smart. He was going to school after work every night and his teacher, Mrs. Kinnian said that he is one of the most hard working students in her class. In the story when charlie first takes the Rorschach test, the tester asks him,”What do you see?” charlie told the tester that he “saw a ink blot.” after this the tester told him a good job but he thought that he could do better. So when charlie tried again and all he saw again were inkblots he asked”can I get my glasses?”thinking that it would help him see the pictures inside the blots better. This is important because it proves that charlie was determined to succeed at the test because he wanted to be selected for the surgery and he wanted to become smart.In the middle of the story when charlie gets bit by Algernon and the doctors told him that Algernon was slowly dying, Charlie did whatever he could in his power to find out why he was dying and...
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...8 Essentials Essay Patch Adams showed many examples of the Amazing Law of Influence and The Law of the Harvest. The Amazing Law of Influence states “One life touches another and potentially both lives are changed; one life touches another and potentially the entire world is changed.” This is shown in Patch Adams when Hunter a.k.a. Patch helped his roommate, Mitch, get his patient to eat, and that motivated him to become nicer to others and learn to appreciate more as well. The Law of The Harvest states, “You reap what you sow,” or “The more I help others, the more they will help me.” This is shown in the movie when Hunter helped all assist all his patience and they all came back to help him in court. In the movie Patch Adams, kindness...
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...Were Charlie Gordons doctors ethical? Ethics are the reasons for a persons or groups actions. Ethics are the reasons why people do the things they do. Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man with an I.Q. of 68. Charlie wants to have this surgery done to him that will supposedly make him much smarter. The doctors that are behind the surgery did not prepare the surgery ethically. Charlie Gordons doctors did not act ethically when preparing for the surgery. The doctors did the surgery to a mouse named Algernon. In order to find the results of the surgery they gave Algernon tests to do. Animals are not humans, they do not have the same brain as us, so even if it works on Algernon, they would have no proof that it works on humans. Even...
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...I believe that Charley Goddard will change because he will realize that war isn’t just shooting people. War is like russian roulette. In russian roulette you would have a gun and put one bullet in the chamber, you would spin the chamber and shoot it at your head and who ever was killed was the loser. War is just like that because you're standing there in the open to fight for your country both sides shooting and you don't know where the bullet is. Charly will probably end up being alive because he is telling the story. I think that assume that he will have a friend with him and that person would either end up perishing or close to and have the post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Charly will turn out to be a person who is more mature and...
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...to walk from 4 legs into 2 legs. Whales have similar bone structure of monkey, eagles, and frogs (pbs series ). In Egypt there are about 400 whale skeletons (pbs series ). The scientist think that whales were evolved from a land mammal called the sinonyx (pbs series ). Humming birds compete nectar, so the humming birds with the short beaks they won’t survive because there would only be long stemmed flowers (pbs series ). The only humming birds that would survive would be the long beaked humming birds (pbs series ). Charlies Darwin was a naturalist who once said that I feel like a blind man that has been given sight” when he saw the animals on the Galapagos island (pbs series ). He studied at the university of Cambridge to study medicine (pbs series ). Charlies Darwin wrote a book called the origins of Evolution and whoever read it would believe that he was telling lies about evolution (pbs series ). Charlies Darwin took on a voyage at the age on 27 and it was a five...
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...Orenstein states that aggression and violent play done by boys are expected and reinforced by giving attention to their actions, but those prayed by girls are unnoticed or even ignored. This is how we learned to perceive the violent behaviors as “masculinity”. The movies and TV shows also reinforced this gender stereotype by only presenting the male dominated action heroes. However, women had more integrated into action cinema, not only as supportive roles, but also as protagonists. According to Taker in Action Women, “the female action heroes are constructed in narrative terms as macho/masculine, as mothers or as Others.” Because the female action heroes challenge the traditional gender roles, they should be presented as ‘unfeminine’, having...
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...He loves her, but he can’t even act on his feelings for her. When Sam and Craig broke up, Charlie didn’t make a move on her because he wanted to be considerate of her feelings, but Sam doesn’t want or need that. It’s great that Charlie “can listen and be a shoulder to someone” but sometimes people don’t need “a shoulder.” They want actions instead. Charlies believes that by putting “everybody’s lives ahead” of his he is exhibiting his “love” for them, but he can’t always do that (200). Sam tells him this. Charlie needs to act for himself too. If he wanted to kiss Sam, he should have. If he wanted to ask her on a date, he should go do it. Because he never acted on his feelings, he never had the chance to develop a romantic relationship with...
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...scapegoating of Jasper by the town of Corrigan. In the earliest stages of the novel, the narrator Charlie leaves the reader in no doubt as to the negative preconceptions that people in Corrigan have regarding Jasper. This is most clear when he states, "Jasper Jones has a terrible reputation in Corrigan. He's a Thief, a Liar, a Truant. He's lazy and unreliable. He's a feral and an orphan, or as good as." This widely held accusations can be seen as one of the reasons why Charlie joins Jasper to dispose of Laura’s body, knowing too well that Jasper’s reputation would ensure that justice was not done. Jasper knew it too, "And they're gonna say it was me that punched her up. They'll charge me and put me away, mate. No questions" As the novel advances, Charlies’ stories of Jasper’s cruel treatment around town and his specific judgements on key events influence the reader to see the direct link between prejudice and injustice. The reader beings to feel Charlie’s growing sense of dismay at the injustice of Jasper’s beating by the constable, and at the constant alteration of support that the town shows toward Jasper, either there cheering when he kicks the winning goal for the local AFL club, or there blaming him for burning down the post office, it’s a never ending cycle. Through the example of Jasper and with the moral commentary of Charlie, Silvey gives the reader the idea that the injustices that occur to Jasper is because of who he is, not what he has done, urging the reader to understand the...
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...it becomes quite evident when Linda yells at Biff “What happened to the love you had for him? You were such pals!” (Miller 57). Linda sees that Willy just wants to love from his sons but they just don’t see it. Linda is that truly loves and respects Willy. The Loman family struggles with financial stability, which is another key to success in Arthur Miller’s eyes. Willy’s solution to most problems is to use money. Willy is partially successful in this because he knows what wants to do with his money. He wants to retire to the countryside with Linda. Although he couldn’t do that as a salesman he still did everything he could to keep his family somewhat stable. He would even ask for money if he didn’t haven any. He asked Charly for money, “ Charly, look… With difficulty: I got my insurance to pay. If you can manage it-I need a hundred and ten dollars” (Miller 96). Willy may not be able to help his family all on his own but he finds a way to do it without worrying them. To me that is success and a great one at that. The best example of success in Arthur Miller’s eyes is understanding yourself. From the very start of the play Biff is seen as lazy and someone who runs away from their...
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