Charlie Gordon In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon
Have you ever thought of what it would be like to be the smartest person in the world or to just simply be smarter than you already are. This is what the mentally challenged man Charlie Gordon from the science fiction book “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes had always wanted. So one day Charlie had decided to volunteer have an experimental A.I. Surgery to increase his Intelligence and to allow him to be like everyone else. Charlie Gordon’s life was increased by a substantial amount for the better making it the right thing to do because Charlie was able to make a contribution to science and was happy because of it, he was able to see the world through a whole new pair of glasses and that he wanted to become smarter. As I said
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As an example, while Charlie was out to eat with his teacher, Miss Kinnian who taught him and a group of other adults with disabilities he had said this in one of his reports, “I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is, she had brown eyes and feathery brown hair that comes to the top of her neck” (Keyes page 233). As said from that it is shown that because he had the surgery, he was able to see how Miss Kinnian really looked. This shows that because of the Surgery he was able to see how everything really was and to notice all of the details in …show more content…
One common argument some readers have throughout is that by having the surgery, Charlie had seen that the world could be very cruel in many ways, but I oppose this stating that even though he has faced many cruel times he has mostly had many beneficial times because of it. For instance, by having the surgery, Charlie was able to make more friends that were much more understanding of him and that didn’t bully him like his previous “friends” Joe and Frank. So as with that, others still oppose and say that he was better off without the surgery because with having the surgery when the effects of it wore off his I.Q. would be decreased less than what his original I.Q. was before the surgery. As that may be true while he had the effects of the surgery he was able to use it to his advantage by making a contribution to science by discovering the Algernon-Gordon effect which would be able to help future researchers on the topic of artificial intelligence and the human
As an example, while Charlie was out to eat with his teacher, Miss Kinnian who taught him and a group of other adults with disabilities he had said this in one of his reports, “I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is, she had brown eyes and feathery brown hair that comes to the top of her neck” (Keyes page 233). As said from that it is shown that because he had the surgery, he was able to see how Miss Kinnian really looked. This shows that because of the Surgery he was able to see how everything really was and to notice all of the details in …show more content…
One common argument some readers have throughout is that by having the surgery, Charlie had seen that the world could be very cruel in many ways, but I oppose this stating that even though he has faced many cruel times he has mostly had many beneficial times because of it. For instance, by having the surgery, Charlie was able to make more friends that were much more understanding of him and that didn’t bully him like his previous “friends” Joe and Frank. So as with that, others still oppose and say that he was better off without the surgery because with having the surgery when the effects of it wore off his I.Q. would be decreased less than what his original I.Q. was before the surgery. As that may be true while he had the effects of the surgery he was able to use it to his advantage by making a contribution to science by discovering the Algernon-Gordon effect which would be able to help future researchers on the topic of artificial intelligence and the human