Comparison And Chaarrly's Flowers For Algernon And The Movie Charly

Charlie’s friendship with Jasper Jones, his parents, and witnessing the intolerance of Corrigan are the three biggest factors in Charlie's development from innocence to experience. Jasper Jones exposed him to fear and forced him to be brave and face his fears, the rampant intolerance in Corrigan, both racial and otherwise, exposed him to the injustices of the real world, and his relationship with his parents taught him to be diplomatic and control his

Next, the characters between the two stories have many differences. In "Flowers for Algernon" one of the main doctors, Dr. Strauss, is a man while in Charly they are a woman. The characters actions and emotions also differ greatly between the two stories. In Charly Mrs. Kinnian and Charlie both like each other and want to be together while in "Flowers for Algernon" Charlie likes Mrs. Kinnian, but she does not like him back. The characters in the stories have different aspects to their personality.

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,

“Flower for Algernon” and Charly, one is a story and the other is a movie. Both of the authors, Daniel Keyes and Stirling Silliphant had to change different parts of the story line in order for it to work. In both, Charly Gordan is the protagonist. He is 38 years old and lives in Boston at the time. At this time, Charly was not highly intelligent. After doctors performed an experimental surgery on him, he became more sophisticated and smarter. At work, his so-called “friend” bullied Charly. The only reason Charly “friends” take him out is to make fun of him for an amusement. Charly would have never found out what they laughing about if he had not gotten the surgery. Therefore, when Charly was out of a job, Silliphant perspective was that the boss fires Charly. However, Keyes perspective was that he is persuaded that he should quit his job. In both cases, he was unemployed. While Charly was unemployed, he has different feelings about people and things. When the bust boy dropped the tray with glasses in the movie and in the story, everyone in the diner laughs at the poor boy. Charly has seen himself in the boy who has dropped the dishes.

One similarity between “ Raymond's Run” and “ Flowers for Algernon” is first person point of view it is showing the reader their personality. In “ Raymond's Run” Hazel's personality is she wants to achieve things and help other people like her brother as much as she could in running. She wants to achieve the race and she want to help her brother become a star runner one day. While she is running the race she says, “ And it occurs to me, watching how smoothly he climbs hand over hand and remembering how he looked running with his arms down to his side and with the wind pulling his mouth back and his teeth showing and all, it occurred to me that Raymond would make a very fine runner” (Bambara 8). In this quote it is saying how she is watching him run and all the good things about him. It is also saying that she wants him to be a star runner someday just like she is. Additionally in “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie the main character has a disability and want to become smart but intern he ends up getting an operation to make him smart. For

Although based on the same storyline, the novel, Flowers For Algernon and movie “Charly” have some significant similarities and differences. One similarity is that both the book and movie follow the same general plot. In Flowers for Algernon and “Charly” , the main character Charlie, is unintelligent and mentally retarded, attends school, gets an operation, becomes a genius, realizes things, and then becomes unintelligent again. However, a difference between the two is that Miss Kinnian, Charlie’s teacher has different feelings towards him. In Flowers For Algernon, Charlie liked Miss Kinnian after he became smart, but the feeling never really became mutual. On the other hand, in “Charly”, Miss Kinnian shows affection towards Charlie, and Charlie

To begin with, both novels share multiple similarities with the characters. In Flowers for Algernon Charlie demonstrates friendship with Alice Kinnian. Whenever Charlie is at the Beekmin College For Retarded Adults, Miss Kinnian supports Charlie in every way she can. “She likes me alot becaus I try very hard to lern everything not like some of the pepul at the adult center who don’t really care.” (Keyes 12) As Charlie described Miss Kinnian at the Beekmin College For Retarded Adults, she was a teacher who supported him and had a friendship which made Charlie feel closer to her. Through their friendship, Miss Kinnian wanted Charlie to get smart giving him help and support which Charlie needed, “She wants me to get smart. I know .” (Keyes 12) Due to the good relationship with each other, Charlie states, “One thing? I, like about, Dear Miss Kinnian: (thats, the way? it goes; in a buisness, letter (if I ever go! into business?) is that, she: always; gives me’ a reason” when- I ask. She”s a gen’ius!” (Keyes 39) She never gives up hope on Charlie and his motivation to learn. Through their relation at the Beekmin College For Retarded Adults, they create a friendship between each other. In conclusion, Charlie’s friendship towards Alice Kinnian

“Charly” and “Flowers for Algernon” are two very similar pieces of literature with a lot of similarities and differences. Let’s first start off with the similarities. One similarity that the movie and the short story share is they both include the part where somebody put Algernon in Charlie’s room. Before that, Charlie was fed up with Algernon beating him all the time, so he gave up racing with Algernon. Charlie raced him one last time and he beat him. This part was important because if he didn’t race him again, he probably would’ve given up on the whole operation. Another similarity that both pieces of literature share is the Frank Reilly and Joe Carp bullying Charlie. Before the operation, Frank and Joe would take advantage of Charlie being

In the short story “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes and in the film “Charly” by motion pictures has many similarities and differences. For example,in both the short story and the film Charlie races a mouse named Algernon. Another similarity is,That charlie falls in love with his teacher Miss. Kinnian. There also there are some differences for example,in the move he went to the Miss.Kinnians house and was forcing her to kiss him but in the short story it didn't show this.

In the short story “flowers for algernon”by daniel keyes and the movie charley have alot of similarites and diffrenceses in the movie charley has a romance relationship with miss kinnian but in the book they are only friends in the book charley tries to find a cure but after a while trying to find a cure he died.In the movie he tries to find a cure fails and moves on. In the movie charley beats algernon in his room but in the book he beats him in the lab.In the book and movie they all have this the same they all had a operation,mouse maze races.algernon dies in the middle of the story . In the movie he smoked cigarettes .In the book he didn't smoke cigarettes. Charly is very diffrent from the book the movie.in the book or movie he is in a

The short story “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie “Charly” have many similarities and differences. This movie and short story is based on Charlie not having the ability to be smart and then he has an operashun and becomes intelligent, but too bad the operashun was only temporary, so that made his intelligents vanish. Some similarities between the movie and the short story is that Charlie falls in love with Miss Kinnian, Algernon dies, and Charlie loses his knowledge. Charlie does fall in love Miss Kinnian. In the short story she was just his teacher but whenever Charlie had his operashun and Miss Kinnian wasn’t his teacher anymore, Charlie had feelings for her. Another detail that is alike from both of the short story and the movie is that,

The short story “Flowers for Algeron” and the movie Charly simulation and difference the movie charly operation seid Im skared for the operation in movie seim is diffrenly the two story the book and the movie the operation seid the Charly more inteligent because charly she no inteligent in the last part of the book charly seid good bye every body and bye MRS. kinnian and you get time put flowers for algeron in the back yard and the finish the movie charly seid nothing in the book charly life in new york and the movie charly life in boston charly she play with the mouse and in the book charly flipped out in the restaurant also in the movie charly help the boy in the restaurant quiely.

Charlie is not in the book because the movies need to have more drama and charlie was a person who was part of the drama. And the book and the movie are different the book has more details. The movie is for entertainment and not the same as the book because they want the movie to be more interesting. The book is to tell you how the story was. And the movie was for showing what charlie

In the movie, the only time you see Charlie crying is at the end, when he blacks out and attempts to commit suicide.

Both stories had different types of flavors. There is the strawberry ice cream flavor where Flowers of Algernon had the majority of the film showing the complicated romantic relationship between Ms. Kinnian and Charly. There is also the vanilla ice cream flavor where the story was plainly about Charly struggling in his life to fit in with society. Although the film and the short story had different flavors, it still had some of the same products. There weren’t only differences between the story and the film. There were similarities as well.