Flowers for Algernon Essay
Date Submitted: 07/24/2004 06:59:26
One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise
his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, he came back to
the state he orginally was at. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel
Keyes, this intelligence operation was done, and the patient was Charlie
Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but experienced
loneliness, and physcological distress. Charlie was emotionaly upset because
of his flashbacks from childhood, and
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his job back at the bakery and has forgotten just
about everthing he had once known. I suppose in the end he was better off
then when he had started. Although he remembers very little of what
happened to him, but the people at the bakery now respect him and stick up
for him. Not only that but now, instead of being a self-centered, he now cares
for others more then he cares for himself.
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