Flowers For Algernon Prejudice And Violence

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Prejudice can lead to violence. The violence can be a physical, emotional, or mental state. I was close friends with a girl with Aspergers. People made fun of her for it and then started to make fun of her friends as well. She’s very knowledgeable, but people jeered at her. The same people jeered at her friends, similarly to the way they mocked her. In the book Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, the main character, has a mental disorder. His I.Q. is 68 and all he wants is to be considered “intelligent.” At work, he got adjudicated, picked on and treated inadequately for his mental problems. Charlie gets put in for a developmental surgery to make him “intelligent.” The people at work start to be more compassionate regarding him, and people

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