Research Paper On Flowers For Algernon

To become smart is many people’s dreams. In contrast, has anyone thought about what would happen if somebody really becomes smart through surgery? Would it have any consequences, or would it be just fine? Flowers for Algernon is a short science fiction story written by Daniel Keyes. In the story, there was a man named Charlie who is mentally retarded. He did a operation with Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss and slowly became smarter. After a few months, though, he found out that his intelligence would soon decrease. At the end, he became stupid again and might die. Even so, Charlie was still better after the surgery, because he gained needed intelligence, made contributions to the world, and made friends.
Charlie has gained many intelligence after
At the restaurant, he decided to contribute to the world, “After Seeing the past more clearly, I have decided to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence levels. Who is better equipped for this work? Who else has lived in both worlds? These are my people. Let me use my gift to do something for them.”(20) Charlie has made his life significant by discovering the “Algernon-Gordon effect”, that artificially increased intelligence would deteriorate, which will inform numerous people about the dangers of this surgery. In order to experience both worlds, he sacrificed himself and produced many papers and progress reports, all very important to science. He has described the calculus of intelligence as so, “Here is the place for the application of all the knowledge I have acquired. In a sense it’s the problem I’ve been concerned with all my life.”(20) Intelligence is a problem he has been fighting for his life. But only after the surgery had he realised that he had found his destiny of his life. Later on in the story he has accomplished the research of the behaviors of human intelligence. As a result, the surgery made him study and understand human intelligence and made his life