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Compare And Contrast Flowers For Algernon
In the short story, “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie, “Charlie” there is may similarities and differences between the two. In the movie “Charlie” there is some romance going on between him and Miss.Kinnian. However in the story it doesn’t mention the way she feels about Charlie. It only talks about how he feels with her. Also in the story “Flowers for Algernon” it didn’t mention that Miss.Kinnian had a fiance yet in the movie it does and it also talks about how there was a Mr.Kinnian, who was sadly deceased. Even tho they have some differences they also have some similarities also. For example, in both the movie and story, Charlie had an operation on his head to make him smart but it ended up having him go back to where he started. In
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