In the beginning of the book Flowers for Algernon there is a passage from the Allegory of the Cave which is written by Plato. It explains a group of people that live in a cave and are chained to the cave wall. For their entire life they have to face a blank wall and watch shadows projected from puppets pass behind them. Plato believes that once someone is freed from the cave they will see the reality outside of the […]
Charlie Gordon was a very kind and caring man. He was an example of how all humans should live their lives. And no not as a retard. As a happy and motivated being. Charlie started out his life having a very low IQ. He always seemed to see himself as a child because he hadn’t matured mentally like someone with no disability. Because of his low IQ, he was always looked down upon by the people he considered his friends. […]
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Get help with your assignmentThere are a lot of people in the Daniel Keyes short story “Flowers for Algernon.” Some are nice. Some are not. Charlie Gordon is the main character in the “Flowers for Algernon” story. He is the protagonist as well as the narrator. He is a 37 year-old guy who has an IQ of 68, meaning that he has serious limitations in areas such as learning and reasoning, and severe limitations as well in adaptive areas such as communication and self-help […]
In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, a 32-year-old intellectually disabled man, undergoes a newly researched surgical procedure that turns him into a genius. Being intellectually disabled means having severe limitations when it comes to mental and cognitive capabilities. Many with this disability have an incredibly troublesome time adjusting to life, and generally, have IQs equal to or less than 70 (Berger 1). Charlie’s IQ of 68 meant that his mental age was younger than his physical age, which […]
Flowers for Algernon examines the connection between smart and unintelligent individuals, or for the most part, between the superior and inferior, as well as whether or not Charlie recognizes the power and superiority complexes at play. Since Charlie Gordon goes between these two universes—shifting from being intellectually disabled to being brilliant, and eventually reverting back to intellectually disabled—he sees the manners by which individuals taunt and ridicule their scholarly inferiors, partially because of the savagery within human nature, but mostly […]
Some people don’t know how to express the way they feel about something or their need, opinions, or beliefs in a respectful manner. People could get defensive around people they do not know all that well, panic around those they want to impress, all fear that they could end a friendship or keep one from starting. People resort to aggression, personal attacks, threats or insults because it has worked before, and that’s how they learned to get their needs met. […]
The speaker in Philip Freneau’s Wild Honeysuckle addresses the beautiful honeysuckle flower, admiring its beauty and the environment in which he finds flowers; then he proceeds to philosophize about the nature of the little flower and how its position reflects the life of all created beings. The speaker expands his concern with just one small beautiful flower when he introduces a hint of the Garden of Eden, in which all the flowers before lapsaria would have lived forever, and although […]
