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Comparing Flowers For Algernon: Book And Movie
The story Flowers for Algernon has both similarities and differences with the film version Charly, such as Dr. Strauss, Miss Kinnian, and Charly. In the film version Charly and Flowers for Algernon, Dr Strauss has the same personality. A Dr. Strauss is the same person because in the film version Charly and flowers for Algernon Dr Strauss is nice, caring and cares about Charly very much. In the film version Charly, it shows that Charly, acts a little different than the Flowers for Algernon. Charly is different between the film and the story because in the film it showed Charly get smarter a lot faster, compared to the story. Unfortunately, Miss Kinnian seems nice in the film and the story, but one difference is that, in Flowers for Algernon,

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