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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
[x]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [An elementary book ]
[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [report on Flowers for ]
[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [Algernon. ]
[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
Dizzed: 07/94 # of Words:625 School: co-ed public State: NY
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
SUPPLEMENTARY BOOK REVIEW
The book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science
fiction novel written by . The main characters of
the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally
retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which
increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the special education
faculty at Beekman College who taught Charlie how to read and
write, the professors who performed the experiment on Charlie, Fay,
one of Charlie's aquaintances which he meets as the book
progresses, and last but not least Algernon.
The novel is exciting and contains very original material.
The moods which are created in the reader, being me, are ones of
sorrow, anger, and guilt. One of the elements of the story which
contributes greatly to the mood the reader experiences would be the
plot. In the story, Charlie, is subject to an experiment which
increases his intelligence in hopes of knowing more in the soul
purpose of impressing people to gain friends. Unfortunately some of
his anticipations were not met.
The main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice,
Algernon, and Fay, a character who did not make much of an
appearance, but in my eyes believed, that she played a very
important part in Charlie's involvement in trying to sort out his
past and figure out his present and future plans. Charlie is a
mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining
friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an
experiment which could possibly make him smart. He makes himself
subject to this human experiment with the hopes of gaining
knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book
progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally, and
instead of making him gain friends he actually is looked on in the
same way if not worse. For example, at Charlie's old work his
"friends" made fun of him and enjoyed his company just because
Charlie had amused them. Yet after the operation, Charlie
discovers that he had not made his friends like him more, but in
actual fact, had pushed them away. Charlie understood now that his
friends had done to him in the past, and starts to look down upon
them. Alice, Charlie's teacher, is the person who introduced
Charlie to the idea of giving the experiment a chance. She believes
that Charlie has the determination, desire, and will power to make
the experiment work. She then, later on in the book, gets
emotionally involved with Charlie and helps Charlie learn more
about himself. Algernon, is a lab animal who also has the
experiment done on him and as result makes him smarter than the
average mouse. Algernon also plays a very important part in the
novel because he represents Charlie and foreshadows what will
happen to Charlie later on in the book. Fay, is an artist who
certainly has views on life which can be rarely found in an
individual. As the book progresses, Fay, helps Charlie reveal his
physical and emotional capabilities.
There are many exciting parts which occur in the book, yet one
however, in my opinion which proved to be the most memorable would
probably be when he had been trying to find what had gone wrong in
the experiment before the inevitable happened to him.
After he had discovered what had gone wrong he had started to
descend down the escalator of intelligence and attempted to make
several desperate attempts to try and walk up an escalator going
down.
The only thing that I do not agree with is how the book
concludes. The conclusion of the book in my eyes leaves the reader
hanging like... this. If I would make a change I would write about
what happened after Charlie Gordon's death. An example of this
would be possible progress and success in the field, or maybe
because of the events which had occurred in the past in this field,
it was given up for dead, or maybe Fay or Alice had conceived a
child and grew older had pursued his/her father's theory/discovery
which in turn leads into a sequel. If anyone were to ask me if they
should read Flowers For Algernon, I would regard it as an excellent
book to read because it makes the reader think of how a mentally
retarded person feels, and mabye will show us a new respect for
them. This book has made me realize just how much more
determination a mentally retarded person could possibly have, and
makes me realize just how lucky I am.