Comparing Flowers For Algernon And The Movie Charly

Originally published in 1959 as a science fiction short story for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the novel Flowers for Algernon by an American writer Daniel Keyes is more relevant today than at that time. With more than five million copies in print, this book with its great depth of meaning is still considered to be the most acclaimed author‘s work.

There are many differences, but also similarities between the book Flowers for Algernon and the movie Charly. In the movie, the viewers could see what was happening, where as in the book the scenes were described so the readers could understand. In the movie Charly and the book Flowers for Algernon there are many differences that include: Miss Kinnian and Charlie starting to date, Charlie announcing his love, Charlie being rejected by Miss Kinnian, and Charlie announcing his regression. There are also many similarities that include: Charlie loving Miss Kinnian, Charlie being taught by Miss Kinnian, Charlie losing against Algernon in races before the surgery, and Charlie won against Algernon after the surgery.

The idea of changing someone's IQ is an interesting thing but Charlie a thirty seven year old man who struggles with learning and wants to be smart will become smart as a doctor gives him this chance by having a brain operation, Charlie should not have had the operation performed on him. “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is a great sci fi short story that you can learn a lot from. Although I think Charlie should not have had the operation, some might say that he should have had it because he wanted to be smart so it gave him a taste of what being intelligent is all about. The operation done on Charlie had a negative impact on him in the end, poor doctor choses, weak animal testing and bad knowledge of the situation could leave many other

When a book gets adapted into a film, the filmmakers will most likely change many things from the book so it doesn’t seem like they ripped the film completely off. This is obvious with Flowers For Algernon and the movie, Charly, this book and movie have many differences as well as similarities. One similarity with this book and film is that they both follow the same story which is about Charlie, a 37 year old man that desperatly wants to become smart. In the book, Charlie finds two doctors, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss and choose him for the operation, In the film, Charlie is also chosen for the operation. Another similarity is that Charlie becomes friends with Algernon after he beats him. In the book, after Charlie beats Algernon many times,

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman. Charlie Gordon is a very welcoming, playful, and genuine man. He attends Beekman College for Retarded Adults and has a strong motivation to learn and to improve his intelligence. He dreams of being popular, and making friends. Throughout the novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon changed in many ways. Prior to his life changing operation, he was not able to grasp that the people at Donner’s Bakery were not his friends, they only spoke to him to make fun of him. Charlie acknowledged their harsh actions, and started retaliating. Charlie is a very open

Both Flowers for Algernon and the Garden of Eden are both similar as they both thought biting from the tree of knowledge would bring them intelligence. In the beginning of the story of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was blessed with happiness, but always desired to be smart. Just like the story the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve did not necessarily wanted to be smart, but wanted to be like God and wanted to experience the knowledge like God had. Charlie knew no other life outside of his job and school and he liked his

The movie flowers for Algernon and awakenings are both medical breakthroughs, but are yet both the same in some areas and then different in other areas. The movie awakenings is about a doctor named Oliver sacks who is helping out a patient who has Parkinson's disease and is in a frozen state that allows him not to be able to understand people how we do. Dr. Sacks ended up finding out about a drug called L-Dopa that then allows the patient with parkinson's to come out of his frozen state. He then gives the drug to the patient with orange juice, but it doesn’t work on him so then he gave the patient a very high dose of the drug with milk. After he did that it allowed the patient to come out of the frozen state. After it started to work he gave

In the movie Charly and the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes, the main character,Charlie Gordon, is an adult man who has a mental disability. He doesn't feel like he is smart enough to fit in ,so he gets brain surgery to make him three times smarter. But the operation makes him too smart and he ends up not fitting in. Eventually, the operation wears off and he end up still being mentally disabled. The movie Charly

Charlie and Algernon are best friends. Even though they can’t understand each other, they still can relate to each other. They are the only ones who had the operation. In the book, Algernon stays in the lab where the scientists can keep their eye on him. In the movie, Charlie takes Algernon with him several times.

The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won’t ridicule him for being slow again. Daniel Keyes wrote this short story for good reasons. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an outside look on how we treat mentally challenged people. When you treat people as you always do, you don’t see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to

After reading the first short story, “Flowers for Algernon”, we notice that the main character lives in his own childlike world. He has his own wishes and dreams, especially those of becoming a normal man. Later on in the story, he achieves his dream of becoming an ordinary person, eventually progressing to the mental level of a genius. It is clear that Charlie is unreliable both before his surgery and once his mental abilities surpass that of a normal person. He transforms from a man with an immature vision of the world into a genius with a complicated vision for society. The only time we can consider Charlie somewhat reliable is when he is in between the stages of mental disability and genius. It is during this time that he is what he

Charlie has an IQ of 69. He, unlike many other mentally disabled, is motivated, and wants to learn. That is why Charlie is chosen to take part in an experiment to increase his intelligence. However, it is only temporary. There are two works that follow Charlie’s story, the movie, Charly, and the book, “Flowers for Algernon.” In these two, many of the specific aspects differ in frightfully unnecessary ways. Despite the clear fact that many of the details of the two piece differ, the essential themes of the works are highly analogous.

In “Flowers for Algernon” there are many great acts of courage, from a multitude of characters. Charlie is the main character and shows the most acts of courage because it is his story that the book follows. Although Charlie is not aware of his actions and the results of them, he shows courage through his connection to his family and how he would do anything for his loved ones. In the beginning of “Flowers for Algernon,” the reader sees Charlie in a laboratory, making reports on his progress for an experiment that has only been tested on a mouse. At the start of the book, we do not know who he is, but through his progress reports, we see him develop, and we learn more about his life as a child.

The short story of charlie and Algernon is a little bit different when they are compared together in the short story charlie has no relationship with mrs kinney but in the movie later on in the movie mrs kinney has a fiance but she left him for charlie. In the movie charlie ran back home into his little apartment but then he ran to the park right after that he see his old self and he start to forget about most of the thing he learned about during the time of his surgery in the movie.In the short story charlie went to a bar with his friends and they drink beer there but his friends left him and he does not remember how he got there but his landowner said police brought him home. In the movie the police just laugh at

The movie “Charly” by Ralph Nelson, is based on a novel named “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. The actor Cliff Robertson plays the role of Charly. Charly is the main character along with Algernon, Miss. Kinnian, Dr. Straus, and Dr. Nemur. The movie was really good. Cliff Robertson was a great actor for Charly.