An Analysis Of Charlie Gordon's Flowers For Algernon

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God made everyone the way they are, didn’t he? If Charlie was supposed to have a super high intelligence God would have given him a super high intelligence. In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie is a 37 year old man who has a very low intelligence. In the story Charlie Gordon has a surgery that could triple his I.Q. The surgery is a success for a short period of time. There’s also a white mouse named Algernon that had undergone the surgery as well. Charlie becomes friends with Algernon. Charlie should not have had the Artificial intelligence surgery. As a result, Charlie lost all of his friends, it brought back painful memories, and he lost his job. Charlie lost all of his friends as a result of the artificial intelligence surgery. After he had the surgery everybody was scared and jealous of him. (“They’ve driven me out of the factory, not i’m more alone than ever before”) (Keys,235). …show more content…
surgery. Charlie was reminded of of his childhood, which was not very good. His mom didn’t love him and his dad left when he was young(“He said he was going to take me to see cows on a farm once but he never did. He never kept his promises”) (Keys 235).
Worst of all Charlie lost his only source of income as a result of the A.I. surgery. Everybody in the factory signed a petition to get Charlie fired. (“Mr. Donegan insisted that it would be better off for all concerned if I left.”) All of the bad things that happened to Charlie were the effects of the A.I. surgery. Was it really worth all of that trouble just to be