A person can be intellectually mature‚ but it is not always compatible with emotional maturity. This statement will be proven by revering to Charlie Gordon in the novel Flowers for Algernon where he is intellectually mature but not emotionally and how this gap between intelligence and emotional maturity creates inner conflict and confusion. Charley Gordon a retarded adult went for surgery to enhance his intelligent. Charley’s IQ got exceedingly high rapidly. His emotions does not have the ability
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Beetlejuice. It was a supernatural comedy that fit perfectly into Burton’s dark‚ gothic style. From there Tim Burton worked on Batman‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ Batman Returns‚ The Nightmare Before Christmas‚ Batman Forever‚ Sleepy Hollow‚ Planet of the Apes‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Corpse Bride‚ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street‚ 9‚ Alice In Wonderland‚ Dark Shadows‚ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter‚ Frankenweenie‚ and Big
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During Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ Charlie Gordon is the main character he is a thirty year old man trying to learn how to read and write again‚ as is his buddy Algernon the mouse. Charlie is doing the experiment with him to see how it will go at to get his test score up. He is also trying to accomplish so much even though his brain will not mentally let him‚ this is because he is main goal is to become like everyone else. In the story Charlie is realizing that becoming smart is meaning
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Curotto Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man who wishes one day he would be smart. Charlie Gordon is mentally disabled. When Charlie took the IQ test he scored 68. Charlie Gordon’s doctors are Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss. Dr. Nemur is a psychiatrist ‚ and Dr. Strauss is a neurosurgeon. Charlie is in contact with these doctors because they gave him the surgery to make him smarter. Ethics refer to well-founded standards of right and wrong to prescribe what humans are known to do. Despite Charlie
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Willy Wonka had a brief flashback of when he had braces and lived a candy-free childhood. Willy not being able to enjoy his childhood by having candy‚ I think is why he had created the chocolate factory so that other children
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around 12 films‚ not including his short-films shot early in his career. Such as Vincent(1982)‚ The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy‚ his first leading film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)‚ and two of his most known films Edward Scissorhands (1990)‚ and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Burton puts as much into the art of film‚ his films contain various themes‚ “Burton’s regulars”‚ and exquisite set designs. Burton’s themes in his movies reflect his childhood and his own life.
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are two main characters being Charlie and Raymond Babbitt. They are two long lost brothers separated from each other at a young age. In a sudden turn of events their father passed away which ultimately brought them together. While Charlie was on the search to find out who got his father’s fortune‚ he finds out he had a brother who is lost in his own world with Charlie’s proclaimed three million dollars. With Charlie’s motive to get Raymond’s money he takes Charlie Babbitt is a Lamborghini salesman
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Charlie was better off before the surgery. One reason for this is because he learned things he would have been happier not knowing. He also fell in love with Miss Kinnian which proved to be a bad thing. Another reason he was better before is due to the sickness he had after the surgery. One last reason is his attitude after the surgery. Charlie learned that his friends like to laugh at him instead of with him‚ something he would have never known had he not had the surgery. He also suffered memory
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appropriate theme for “Flowers for Algernon” is that too much of a good thing can end up being bad. One reason for my thinking is that sometimes people want something so bad‚ they’re willing to do anything. The main character/narrator in this story‚ Charlie Gordon‚ wants something. He only wants to be smart and to be like other people… normal. “I want to be smart.” (pg. 190) He wants it so bad that he’s willing to take the risk of a surgical operation. This operation (on his brain‚ I might add) is
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social issues of accepting extraordinary people within the society. Tim Burton applied different types of lighting‚ camera framing‚ and camera movement in his movies to show that a character’s curiosity will resist them from loneliness and sorrow. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”‚ even though Willy Wonka is believed by many to be one of the most extraordinary chocolate maker‚ he is also considered a secretive and unusual man. In one scene where a camera viewed Charlie’s home along with other houses
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