Charlie Gordon's 'Flowers For Algernon'

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Flowers for Algernon Dialectical Journal Charlie Gordon; a man with a learning disability; perhaps retarded. He will soon begin to go through what he considered one of the most impacting time of his life. Prompt: Was the operation a good thing or a bad thing? 1. On the side of the operation being a good thing, Charlie becoming smarter resulted in his intellectual abilities to soar at an unbelievable rate. He begins using proper spelling, more words, and it is easier for the doctors to understand his feelings because he can write in a complete sentence while using correct format. This assists the doctors to help Charlie become the person he has always wanted to be. Because of this, Charlie is able to beat Algernon. " April 6 I beat…show more content…
Later on in the story, he sees a clumsy dishwasher working and dropping the dishes and plates. By this time, Charlie's improvement in becoming more sufficient and capable of doing more is thoroughly shown. He is using longer, more sophisticated words and writing full/ complete sentences with correct punctuation with almost no errors at all. He is thinking outside the box more. The incident of the dishwasher greatly helped the increase of awareness that Charlie was able to have. " But today in looking art that boy, for the first time I had saw what I had been. I was just like him..." (Page 65) " This day was good for me, Seeing the past more clearly, I have decided to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence levels. Who is better equipped for this work? Who else has lived in both worlds? These are my people. Let me use my gift to do something for them. " (Page 65) That day of Charlie and the Dishwasher is shown in the above quote. The use of longer, more sophisticated words that made the paragraph easier to understand is also a good affect of the operation; his intelligence is now capable of so much that he is able to do this type of writing. 3. Another positive effect of the operation is having Charlie realize what it is like in the real world. What Charlie thinks of as good friends are really people who are using him as a joke. They trick him into becoming drunk, therefore making him look even more ridiculous and stupid…show more content…
Now speaking from the position of the negative reasons of the operation, I find that Charlie seems to have more difficulties after the operation than before. 1. For example, Even though the surgery made Charlie smarter, it at one point made him hard to understand,. When he fell in love, the other person; Miss. Kinnian, had a hard time communicating with Charlie. This lead to hard feelings on both of them; especially Charlie. "April 28 I don't understand why I never noticed how beautiful miss Kinnian really is. She has brown eyes and feathery brown hair that comes to the top of her neck. She's only thirty-four! I think from the beginning I had the feeling that she was an unreachable genius- and very, very old." He had ever felt this way before, and it was a whole new feeling before that he had ever learned about. For him not to be able to talk to her the way that he had hoped made it hard for him. And speaking for Miss Kinnian, she couldn't understand Charlie with all of his weird talking. 2. Soon after he had a conflict with love, Charlie comes to the most tragic part of this all. Algernon, the mouse that he had a strong connection with died. After he experimented, he found out that the symptoms that Algernon had were going to eventually happen to Charlie too. This leads to Fear of certain death, and few thoughts of
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