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Flowers For Algernon Compare And Contrast
The story Flowers for Algernon has both similarities and differences from the film version Charly. Charlie Gordon is not as non-intelligent in the movie as they make him seem in the text. In the text the said charlie had speech problems in which he does, although his speech is not so horrid in the movie. Dr. Strauss is unexpectedly a female in the movie. Unexpectedly Dr.Strauss was a female in the movie instead of a male like in the text. Mrs. Kinnian was not the night school teacher. In the text it stated that Mrs.Kinnians only job was being the night school teacher, even though in the movie she never once was shown teaching the children. The only time Mrs.Kinnian made an appearance in the night school was when she went to talk to Dr.Strauss.The

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