Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

With all of his heart Charlie wants to be smart. In the story “flowers for Algernon” Charlie is the main character. He is a thirty seven year old man who wants an operation to become smart. The story was written by Daniel Keyes. I think that he should not have the operation.

My first reason that I think that he should not have the operation is because a while after the operation he becomes dumb again. In the beginning he gets to experience some of the advantages of being smart such as being able to spell, read, and write better. The operation makes him so smart that he was able to use his new knowledge to do scientific research, that he “took the liberty of calling the Algernon-Gordon Effect” (Keyes, 80). Charlie ended up doing a study about how the

He said, “I’ve quit my job at Donnegan’s Plastic Box Company. Mr. Donnegan insisted that it would be better for all concerned if I left. What did I do to make them hate me so?” (Keyes, 72). All Charlie dreamed about was becoming smart, but did it have to cost him his job, just because his co-workers are almost scared of him because they don’t understand what has happened to Charlie? Then as he loses his intelligence and becomes dumb again, he decides to go back to his old job at the Box Company because he needed money. After working there again, he realizes that things can never be the same. He says, “Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I don’t want that eather so Im going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed or rite a book good” (keyes, 85). He then decided that it would be best for everyone, if he left New York to go someplace where no one would know that he had been been a genius. So Charlie shouldn’t have the operation because it affected Charlie’s relationships with his co-workers and boss and made it hard on Charlie to have to give up his job, not once but two