Blowers For Algernon Persuasive Essay

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¨Flowers for Algernon¨ Persuasive Essay

If you had the chance to have your whole life positively affected to reach your life goals, be treated better, or change history, would you? I know I would! Charlie gordon is a 37 year old man with the IQ of 64 and the dream to be smart. In the science fiction novel ¨Flowers for Algernon¨ by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon takes part in a once in a lifetime artificial intelligence (or AI) surgery that failed, leaving his IQ lower than ever after an IQ boost to 204. Charlie Gordons life had a dramatic effect for the better after the AI surgery. First of all Charlie got to interact with people that were just like him before AI, also charlie broke free and experienced new emotions and feelings, along with that Charlie realized who his true friends were after being bullied his whole life. Charlie got to see and help people who were the way he was before AI. For instance when Charlie was more optimistic than ever, he defended a mentally handicapped boy. ¨They were …show more content…

Charlie had been the victim of his friends and his name had been a common joke in his place of work for when somebody messed something up or broke something. ¨Boy i sure pulled a Charlie gordon there!¨ (Keyes 224). After he realized he was sufferer of their jokes for years he made some changes of who he decided to put himself next to. Again another reason why his life after AI was better off.
A common argument against this position is that Charlie was better before the AI surgery, but I disagree. After the AI surgery Charlie said he felt ¨ashamed¨, but he was only feeling like that because he realised how people treated him his whole life. Also people may say that Charlie was too smart. Charlie was at such intelligence level that certain people could obtain naturally. Again coming to the conclusion that Charlie Gordons life was better after the AI

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