Charlie Gordon's Education In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

Everybody wants to be smart. Well, at least Charlie Gordon does. A wise man named Chanakya once said “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” In the short story “Flowers for Algernon,” by the author, Daniel Keyes, the main protagonist, Charlie Gordon is an intellectually disabled adult who is offered a chance to grow his intelligence. Like any other person, he takes the offer. Shortly after the surgery takes place, Charlie sees immediate results. He gains the ability to read and use a typewriter. Although the surgery was said to be a success, there is a fault. A few months after the surgery Charlie starts to drop in IQ, he forgets how to love and becomes an anti-social mess, at this point he faces death. But his choice had already been made. Charlie should have never gotten the surgery, here’s why. Charlie’s choice to opt for the operation results in him getting what he wished for, his IQ triples for a good few months and, then going down to an all time low. Resulting in him losing the ability to take care of himself. Before operated on, Charlie’s IQ was at a intellectual disability level, and his doctors make him write in his journal. In Charlie’s journal entries he writes about how he feels, thinks, and his opinions on other people. After the
Also, people may say that Charlie would not be better off without the surgery, but Charlie had made it through 32 years with a disability, meaning that he could make it through the rest of his life with it. Therefore, Charlie would have been better off not taking the surgery and waiting for the final product before going in for a random