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    The Sci-Fi Fiction Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a 32-year-old man with a mental disability which makes him lack intelligence. His name is Charlie Gordon. In the book Flowers for Algernon ‚ Charlie Gordon want to be intelligent‚ he wants to fit in with his so-called “friends” like Gimpy and his real friends like Alice. He also wants his sister and his mom to come back to his life. So Charlie goes to his doctor and they test him against a mouse named Algernon that was once like Charlie

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    To a large extent‚ ignorance is a bliss because before the operation‚ Charlie thought he had friends and enjoyed his job. However‚ to a certain extent‚ ignorance is not always bliss as Charlie felt inferior to others when his IQ was low. Firstly‚ ignorance is a bliss to a large extent as when Charlie was still ignorant‚ he always thought he had friends. He always thought that Joe Carp and Frank Reilly were his good friends and that they were laughing with him and not at him. From "My friends from

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    Flowers for Algernon From the adaptation of Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie Gordon is used for an experiment to surgically improve his intelligence. He then‚ started to digress and lost much of what he had learned. Though‚ Charlie may have thought that this operation was the right thing to do for himself‚ many oppose the theory that it is right to surgically improve human intelligence. Despite what Charlie did‚ it is wrong to surgically improve human intelligence. Many people have

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    July 5‚ 2013 Pranz Ocampo Five Paragraph Essay: Short Story Unit My essay will be about the challenges that young people may have to go through when growing up. The short story that im going to compare this with is going to be "War"‚ "The Crystal Stars Have Just Begun to Shine"‚ and "Sniper". The author of these stories are Timothy Findley‚ Martha Brooks and Liam O’Flaherty. The main points that i would be focusing on are the hardship of young person with a single parent‚ the loneliness

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    to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard.” In the short story Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an extremely low I.Q. Throughout the story the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ takes us on a roller coaster of emotions‚ which are constantly changing. One thing that doesn’t change in the story was Charlie’s great want and need for acceptance. The author reveals the theme of the need for acceptance in the story Flowers for Algernon. It is human nature to want to fit in‚ and Keyes demonstrated

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    Flowers for Algernon Wish You Were Here – Avril Lavigne The song I Wish You Were Here represents how Charlie misses his best friend Algernon. It was really difficult for Charlie to know that his friend died. Algernon was the only loyal friend that Charlie had‚ and it was the only one who understood him. They both went through the same process‚ and the same operation to become smarter. It was difficult for Charlie because he knew that if Algernon died maybe he could die too. We will place this

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    After having read several short science fiction stories‚ two certain stories really stood out to me‚ those two short stories were‚" Flowers for Algernon”‚ written by Daniel Keyes and‚ “The Second Variety”‚ written by Phillip K. Dick. I found that both of those texts focused on the central theme of man playing God‚ and both of them had their own approach of showing what happens when man plays God. Even though the outcomes of both stories are very different they both reach the same central idea of

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    man‚ Charlie Gordon was thrust into in the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. Charlie is a happy man. Daily he is a janitor in a factory. Nightly‚ he attends Miss Kinnians class for adults. His life is fine but he wants one thing‚ to be intelligent. Meanwhile‚ two scientists‚ Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss have perfected an experiment to raise a being’s intelligence. After succeeding in an experiment with a mouse named Algernon they want to try it on a human host. They send word

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    Flowers for Algernon‚ by Daniel Keyes‚ is about a mentally disabled 32 year old man named Charlie Gordon and his transition into becoming a genius. Charlie has a operation performed on him‚ that was previously performed on a lab mouse named Algernon‚ to increase his intelligence with successful results. Charlie documents his experiences in progress reports and as time goes on after the operation‚ the reader can see the improvements in Charlie’s thinking through his writing. As time passes‚ Algernon’s

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    humans to be used for medical experiments. According to Flowers for Algernon on the progress report‚ “If you volunteer for this experiment‚ you might get smart. They don’t know if its permanent but there’s a chance”(page 57). This shows that if scientists used humans‚ they could volunteer and it would provide answers to people for the future. Human testing helps provide researchers with better information. According to Flowers for Algernon‚ when Charlie had the operation done to him‚ he slowly became

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