Daniel Keys's Flowers For Algernon
Flowers for Algernon messages and meanings
People treat other people differently based on how they act, and no one can deny that because that's how you make friends. But people with a disability such as Charlie, in the book “Flowers For Algernon” “by Daniel Keys” are shunned and ignored all the time just because they can’t think straight. In this book, Charlie his whole life has been unable to read or write. This caused people to judge him as a clueless 30 year old man even though it’s just because he has a disability. There is proof of people being mistreated just because they have disabilities, Like kids at school getting a math question that was easy to everyone else wrong and he is all the sudden considered dumb even though it’s not his fault. In this essay i am trying to prove how just because someone is slow at learning it doesn't mean they are “dumb”. …show more content…
Maybe you might think it was the parents fault or just the baby saw something that scared it. Whatever is making that baby cry or whatever else is happening you have judged so many things in so many ways without even thinking about, just like the workers did in flowers for Algernon. Take your friends as another example, do you treat them better than maybe some of the people you run into on the street or in a store? You know you do and i’m almost sure you do to. So there is my proof that everyone judges everyone no matter if you think you
People treat other people differently based on how they act, and no one can deny that because that's how you make friends. But people with a disability such as Charlie, in the book “Flowers For Algernon” “by Daniel Keys” are shunned and ignored all the time just because they can’t think straight. In this book, Charlie his whole life has been unable to read or write. This caused people to judge him as a clueless 30 year old man even though it’s just because he has a disability. There is proof of people being mistreated just because they have disabilities, Like kids at school getting a math question that was easy to everyone else wrong and he is all the sudden considered dumb even though it’s not his fault. In this essay i am trying to prove how just because someone is slow at learning it doesn't mean they are “dumb”. …show more content…
Maybe you might think it was the parents fault or just the baby saw something that scared it. Whatever is making that baby cry or whatever else is happening you have judged so many things in so many ways without even thinking about, just like the workers did in flowers for Algernon. Take your friends as another example, do you treat them better than maybe some of the people you run into on the street or in a store? You know you do and i’m almost sure you do to. So there is my proof that everyone judges everyone no matter if you think you