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Daniel Keys's 'Flowers For Algernon'

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Was it really worth it? Do the pro’s of the surgery outweigh the cons? These are some questions that a reader may ask themselves to understand the theme in this short story. In “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys, one theme is the use and abuse of science and technology. By granting Charlie the surgery he always wanted, tripling his IQ, does that constitute abuse? I feel that the surgery constitutes abuse. Science was abuse and in the end the surgery was not worth it. A few reasons the surgery wasn’t worth it for Charlie is that the doctors didn’t even know the effect of the surgery to a man's brain, his time while being smart was very short and he was more lonely than he ever was before, finally, he might even have the chance of dying.

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