Compare And Contrast Flowers For Algernon

In the short story “Flowers For Algernon” and the movie “Charly” both have many differences and similarities. Let’s start with differences and later move on to similarities. For starters, while in the end of “Flowers For Algernon” Charlie put flowers on the grave of the dead science mouse Algernon, all though this Short Story was made into a movie, this never happened in the film. Now in the film,Charlie helped a busboy who was mentally retarded pickup glass that he dropped, now in the story Charlie laughed at this boy at first then realized his mistake in laughing at him and carried on to yelling at the people who laughed at the bus boy. While in the story it is said that Charlie lives alone in his apartment, in the film it is shown that Charlie