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Professor Nemur's Point Of View Of Charlie In Flowers For Algernon
Flowers For Algernon was told from the point of view of Charlie, the person the intelligence-increasing surgery was performed on. The story would have been very different if it was told through the eyes of another character in the story. Views on things like the surgery and whether or not it was successful would probably not be the same as Charlie’s views at all. Professor Nemur was one of the scientists in charge of the experiment. He would probably would have been very impersonal if he were narrating the book. He would have seen the pre-surgery Charlie as inhuman, and would probably have talked about how he had basically created Charlie. If Alice Kinnian, Charlie’s teacher before his surgery, had been telling

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