Do you think charlie should have had the intelligence surgery?Charlie Gordon was a man with low I.Q. in the story “Flowers for Algernon”by Daniel Keys. He thought with the artificial intelligence (A.I.) surgery he would fit in and make more friends.Charlie should not have had the A.I surgery. Charlie shouldn’t have had the surgery because, he lost all of his friends, also he became paranoid, and hurt Miss. kinnian emotionally. Charlie lost all of his friends as a result of the A.I. surgery . After the surgery ,he became smart and scared people and made them feel dumb , also made people feel guilty for how they treated him when he had low intelligence .”They’ve driven me out of the factory .Now I’m more lonely than ever before…”(keys 235). …show more content…
surgery is he became paranoid. Charlie had to take tests and he had trouble with them a first .But after the surgery ,he took the same tests and did good ,so he thought that people were making him fail before.”I didn’t believe it ,and i still have the suspicion that he misled me at the time just for the fun of it.”the man that gave charlie the tests said the same thing the first time . After the regression started he hur Miss. Kinnian emotionally. Charlie and Miss. Kinnian fell in deep love . But when Charlie regressed he didn’t want anyone to feel bad or laugh at him so he pushed them away.”Miss Kinnian came to the door but i said go away i don’t want to see you. She cried and i cried too but i wouldn’t let her in because i didn’t want her to laugh at me. I told her i didn’t like her anymore.”Because Charlie did that Miss Kinnian couldn’t even look at charlie without crying.That’s how charlie hurt Miss KInnian. Others may say that it was a good idea that Charlie had the surgery ,but I Agree otherwise. Some may say Charlie should have had the surgery because he became I genius .Even though he became a genius he found out the surgery would never work, so he would go back to having a low I.Q. anyways .It is also often supposed that Charlie was right to do the surgery because he got new emotions. When he got new emotions some were bad like he was angry, impatient, and paranoid. There are some reasons why charlie shouldn’t have
Firstly, Charlie grows emotionally and physically as a human being: growing and becoming more complete with every experience. Starting off, Charlie grows physically as he develops into a more of a complete man. Joe and Frank invite Charlie to a party, during the party he is forced to dance with a girl named Ellen. After waking up the next morning, Charlie says, “I dreamed about the girl Ellen dancing and rubbing up against me and when I woke up the sheets were wet and messy” (Keyes 43). Charlie has his first wet dream, he is slowly going through puberty after the operation and becoming a more complete man. Adding on, Charlie is always happy and thinks all is good in the world, before the operation everything seems fine to him. He is like a child: naive. After the operation, Charlie has therapy sessions with the doctor, where they do tests to measure growth. During one of these therapy sessions, Charlie says, “I had reached a new level and anger and suspicion were my reactions to the world around me” (Keyes 57-58). Charlie grows emotionally, he adds another aspect to his cha...
He was able to see the world through the new eyes that he had gained from the operation learning new things about the world and being able to talk and interact with the people around him as a normal person. For a moment in time Charlie was normal ,and even after he had lost everything Charlie still learns in the end that even though he may have lost everything he was still happy to be able to finally fulfill his dream of being normal. In conclusion I still think Charlie should have undergone the operation for these reasons ,because in the end if he hadn’t he would have experience these many great things and finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming smart and
Before the operation, he exhibited some clear strengths such as determination, a positive attitude, friendly with people and some weaknesses such as education and inability to understand the adult world. After the operation, he begun to change in numerous ways. Charlie started out as being not really intelligent. Being around with “smart” people made him want to change and became “intelligent” just like his “friends.” I think its all crazy. If you can get smart when your sleeping why do people go to school. That thing I don't think will work. I use to watch the late show and the late late show on TV all the time and it never made me smart (Keyes 118). This part of the book led Charlie’s flashbacks takes place of how he was raised or nurtured through his childhood, Of how he wanted to try to become smart. However Dr. Strauss believes that his sleep would help Charlie be able to learn. However in his nature, his disability cannot help him at all, doesn’t matter how much he tries to watch TV and tries to go to sleep, I wouldn’t allow him to learn anything at all. The nurture of this is having the doctor recommend Charlie to do this. His disability also not just affects him but his family as well. His disability kind of makes his sister miserable as well, jealous over how the parents focus on Charlie due to his disability, despite the successes the sister achieves in school. Thus Charlie’s nature towards others has a negative effect which is towards his sister. Charlie was raised by his parents but through a condition that would then follow him probably for the rest of his life as well as being mainly raised through this experiment, which possibly wouldn’t help him at all in the near
He is then judged even harsher which is why you shouldn’t try to be someone that you’re not. You should stay true to yourself. In the story, it says “Their going to use me! I am so exited I can hardly write” (Keyes page 351). This implies that Charlie is anxious to undergo the surgery that will make him smart. Another part says “If you volenteer for this experament you mite get smart”. (Keyes page 351) This shows that the operation will make him more intelligent so he can fit in with everyone else. This proves that Charlie is trying to be someone he is not in order to fit
We see Charlie's transformation from being mentally disabled person to becoming the most intelligent man. The story progress as a journal entry tracking Charlie's progress during the experiment. In the beginning it is quite evident by the writing style and thoughts of the narrator that Charlie had a very low intelligence level. But once the scientist performed the surgery, we started to notice a few changes, for example, his sentence becomes more and more easier to understand and his thoughts start becoming more complex, which
It succeeded, but the outcome was not what they were expecting. When Charlie started to die, he also got dumber and dumber. He said he wishes he could have another chance to be smart again, and he “doesn't know why im dumb agen,” (Pg 18). If he have never did this surgery, he would not have to deal with this pain and suffering of missing to be smart again. Even if he was going to be forever smart, he was going to die very soon. Is a few weeks of joy worth dying early and not living a fulfilled life? Due to this operation, he wasn’t able to do many things that he could have accomplished. Charlie also said, “ Please let me not forget how to read and write…” (Pg 17). Charlie would never be this sad if he never learned how to read and write. Charlie was already happy with his jobs, his friends, and life was easier when he was not smart. To conclude, Charlie’s life was clearly better off before the
People would take advantage of his innocence and use him. Everybody around him felt bad for him, but because of Charlie’s innocence he never let himself down. He always tried his best and was always a happy person. All he wanted was to gain knowledge, but little did he know that came with a price; his innocence. As being curious and wanting to gain knowledge were one of the ways he lost his innocence, fearing reality and realizing what the people he trusted are capable of. Charlie was excited to gain more knowledge despite the several warnings he had received from the people around him. After receiving knowledge the innocence losing away finally started to kick in. Charlie started to feel fear as the memories of his past were coming as well as when he met Fay and she was introducing to him to new things. As the story develops he slowly realizes that the people around him did not care about him and only used him for their own good. When Charlie sees this he can’t believe how his old self trusted them. Therefore this clearly explains his loss of innocence. Despite being warned, Charlie wanted to go through the surgery which led him to all these problems ultimately making him lose his
For Charlie, Ignorance is bliss. He realizes that his so called ? friends? were just using him to entertain their perverse humor. Also, he was also fired from the job that he loved so much because his new intelligence made those around him feel inferior and scared.
Charlie grew suspicious and cold when learning how his friends harmed him, this resulted in Charlie making his “friends” feel inferior and lesser then him as they did to him before his intelligence germinated. His friends experienced a taste of their own medicine, due to his new attitude he possessed a gargantuan amount of greed forced him neglect the emotions of others, his co-workers loathed what Charlie was becoming and wanted to put an end to his evil and selfish behavior, so as a result Charlie Gordon was discharged from his duties at Donner’s Bakery. The monster deep within Charlie did not just stop at destroying the relationship between Charlie and his co-workers at the bakery; instead it also damaged the friendship between him, Dr. Strauss, and professor Nemur severely. The new selfish Charlie has also established a burning hatred for Dr. Strauss and professor Nemur, because he strongly believed that they did not treat him as a human but as a lab rat. Sympathy was one quality the new Charlie lacked, as a result his deep angry and selfish persona led him to sabotage the convention in Chicago by leaving the scene and stealing Algernon. Charlie and Algernon were key for the experiment and Charlie decides to leave with no regard to what could happen to Dr. Strauss’s experiment, instead he did what would benefit him the most and what would be easier on him, “I’ve walked out on the whole thing.” (Charlie, 154) This monster within Charlie was leading him to a path where he would have no friendships and a place where he would grow angrier with those around him due to his selfishness; however as the regression approaches his self-centered qualities begin to fade until they evaporated. Charlie’s new friendly personality resulted
Before Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because they always made jokes about Charlie, but he was not smart enough to realize it. As he gets smarter he loses his friends because they think he is just trying to act smart.
While I came upon reading the short story Flowers for Algernon I realized that the surgery Charlie had done, made his life worse. I believe that because the way he lived his life decreased. Charlie Gordon no longer was able to experience regular human contact or human interaction. Charlie didn't have to work hard to be smart or work hard to retain information it was all done for him.
“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes- how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to think that not too long ago, I, like this boy, had foolishly played the clown. But today in looking at that boy, for the first time I saw what I had been.” (Keyes, 237) Before Charlie had gotten his intelligence, he was just like that boy and didn’t realise that people were making fun of him. Now that he’s done the operation, he is aware of how other people treated him and how other people treat others and he knows that not everyone is a good person.
The fact is that Charlie Gordon just wanted to be smart & to be able to fit in.The main character is Charlie Gordon from “Flowers for Algernon” & Charlie’s life was a lot better after the A.I surgery in his image & i agree.Charlie should have had took the A.I surgery. The 3 reasons are he proved the operation was a failure Algernon-Gordon effect,He would never experienced love, & earned more money than before.
He became irritable and edgy around people at the university. He would become mad at people very quickly and then yell at them. People stayed away from him because he was becoming a madman and was unpredictable. Because of this, Charlie became lonely in his last weeks before he regressed totally. Charlie lost his job because he was too smart to work in a bakery.
Charlie at the start of the novel, Flowers For Algernon, has one characteristic that many people don’t have, which is to persevere any hardship and try to improve even though he isn’t intelligent. Many people like to compare themselves to others who are uneducated to emphasis their ability. Even though they have the ability, doesn’t necessarily mean those people know how to improve or want to. Charlie before the operation was different in the sense of wanting to improve and grow on his knowledge, but many people either didn’t notice that or just bullied him. It’s unfortunate how working diligently hard on skills one might not be talented in is underappreciated, not just in the novel, but in reality as well.