In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” the whole was being told from Charlie’s point to view. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” there are two types of characterization. There are direct and indirect, the short story has both of them. At some point he’ll talk about how nice Miss.Kinnian is and how nice his “friends” are. The only thing is that his “friends” are not nice and Miss.Kinnian is. In fact, Charlie thought his “friends” were nice until he got smarter. He then realized that his friends being jerks. When he went back to his old self, the thought stuck with him until his “friends” actually became nice to him. In the script “Flowers for Algernon” the script was in third person point of view. It had It had everyone’s thoughts and emotion. Their opinions were also placed as well. The script was also in indirect characterization. What they mostly talked about in the script was about how Charlie is getting so smart. …show more content…
It showed how Charlie’s “friends” were treating him. The movie was also direct characterization. The characters didn’t show the viewers who they really are. The Doctors were terrible. They didn’t tell Charlie he would go back to his original state. Mostly Charlie’s “friends.” They were just rude and disrespectful and Charlie thought they were just his friends. About the conflict, Charlie started getting a little smarter each day. People were still bullying him. Also he thought that they were his “friends.” He started getting smarter and realized that they were not his friends. After this. He found himself laughing at a kid that was just like him. That’s when he had no time left. He was getting back to his old self each day until he he got fully
Character- The main character Charlie is developed in many ways throughout the story. His whole demeanor changed from page one. He actually started smoking in the middle of the book. “When I light it, I didn’t cough. It actually felt soothing. I know that’s bad in a health class kind of way, but it was true.”-pg 102 His personality was different after that. He always tried to be friendly to anyone he met but if you weren’t nice to his friends he didn’t really respect them after that. His dialogue is very similar throughout the whole book. He is very friendly when he talks and tries to be polite. Charlie is trying to make friends and keep them. He succeeds with some coaching from his english teacher who Charlie calls Bill. Bill gave him books to read and graded Charlie’s reports. “He says that I have a great skill at reading and understanding language.”- pg 9-10. A’s showed on Charlie’s report card but Bill gave Charlie different grades. The books Bill gave Charlie changed his mind about a lot of things. Bill developed Charlie through the whole book.
Charlie’s story began with the surgery, the biggest decision he made in his life. Although he was a guinea pig in the procedure, he wasn’t worried at all about the surgery, but rather on becoming smart as fast as he could. Supposedly these doctors were doing Charlie the greatest favor he would ever receive, and he was so eager to learn as much as he could. Soon however, Charlie would encounter challenges he never faced with the intelligence of a 6 year old. Before his surgery, Charlie had great friends in Miss Kinnian and the bakery workers. After the surgery the relationships between Charlie and everyone he knew would take a drastic turn.
.... As his intelligence advances, Charlie becomes aggressive and hostile after realizing how he was taken for granted. He can no longer tolerate his former coworkers, because he still remembers the humiliation at their hands. His friends at the factory become threatened by his new personality and growing intelligence, and petition to fire him out of the factory. This led to Charlie becoming isolated and lonely. Once Charlie became a genius, he became a little arrogant and even egotistical. This, in turn, makes him lose his friends and all of his happiness in his simple life. Because his progress reports are written in first point of view, you can infer how his personality changed from amiable to hostile. At the end, he hopes someone will continue and fix the error in Dr. Nemur and Strauss's experiment. From this, you can conclude that what he is writing is the truth.
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 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).
Charlie didn’t deserved to be laughed at and made fun of and to understand what was really going on he needed to become smarter. If he didn’t he would’ve gone the rest of his life thinking everyone was his friend no matter how poorly he was treated because he would always think of it as a joke. Without being smart he would be forced to live his life in a narrow point of
At this time, Charlie is thinking to himself whether his friends are really his friends after they start to laugh and make everyone else laugh at him and that they were just using him to be popular. “It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me.(Keyes
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.
352] Charlie believes he can be smart, and he’s willing to give all the hope and knowledge he’s got within himself so that he is equal to others. Other characters such as Miss Kinnian alter Charlie’s mindset by encouraging him to stay strong. Miss Kinnian says to Charlie, “...I have confidence in you Charlie…” [Keyes, p. 357]. which lets Charlie know that even others believe that he will be successful.
Charlie begins noticing a difference in ability to learn and the intelligence that he begins to gain. His treatments have made a difference in Charlie’s life, but somehow, he remains pushing and pushing towards his next goal that perhaps he may never
This quote shows that even his teacher Miss Kinnain even saw he was getting excellent in learning skills better than what he was before the surgery. Also Charlie’s another reason why Charlie life expands because his mental age catches up with his physical age. (April 28 progress report 10-11)“Now every time I see her she grows younger and more lovely.” This quote shows how after his mental age catches up with his physical age because it starts to realize how beautiful Miss Kinnian is, and young.
It is important for Charlie to have faced these facts of the world. Another thing is Charlie learns that his brain capacity is one of the best in the world and that he has exceeded the knowledge of others around him. In addition after Charlie leaves his job at the factory, he writes “I have been given a lab of my own and permission to go ahead with the research. I’m on to something” (Keyes 521). Charlie starts to realize that he is capable of solving the mystery behind Algernon’s death.
While all this was happening Charlie was having fun because he didn't see what they were doing until he started getting smarter and didn't have
“Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1959, is considered a landmark work on both science fiction and disability literature,” (Werlock 2009). The American Library Association reports that this novel was banned as an obscene for its love scenes. When the main character, Charlie Gordon, increases his IQ from 68 to a level that makes him a genius (after received experimental brain surgery), his maturity leads him to fall in love with his teacher, and a sexual encounter ensues. This caused Flowers for Algernon to be banned and challenged in many places (Plant City, Florida- 1976, Emporium, Pennsylvania- 1977, Oberlin High School (Ohio) - 1983, among others). Most people consider the sexual scenes fairly mild, but there are those who consider any mention of sexual behavior inappropriate for teens or pre-teens, hence the attempts at censorship. Many of the challenges have proved unsuccessful, but the book has occasionally been banned from school libraries including some in Pennsylvania and Texas. Flowers for Algernon has won numerous awards, even for the film, and it is regularly taught in schools around the world; therefore, it should remain on shelves.
We can all sympathize with Charlie on the surface, we have all made mistakes that we have to live with. Charlie is attempting to move forward with his life and erase the mistakes of his past. The ghosts of his past torment him repeatedly throughout the story, his child's guardians despise him and his old friends do not understand him.