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How The Surgery Improves Charlie’s Life
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The surgery improves Charlie life because he becomes more aware of the things he was missing, his reading and spelling skills increase, and he becomes pleased with some of the results. Intellectual disability is a learning and mental disorder. People who suffer from intellectual disability learn , speak, and comprehend differently from others. In the…
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Flowers For Algernon
Does your IQ have anything to do with your number of friends? This is a key question explored in Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keys, as Charlie, the main character, investigates his relationships between friends and family. The characters and their reactions are a very important part of this tragic, brilliant, and heart warming novel…
| author | Daniel Keyes |
|---|---|
| genre | Science fiction |
| originally published | April 1959 |
| description | Flowers for Algernon is the title of a science fiction short story and a novel by American writer Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. |
| antagonist | Professor Nemur |
| quotations | “There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.” “A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.” “My feeling for you won’t change because I’m becoming intelligent. “Just leave me alone. “I am afraid.,“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” “That’s the thing about human life–there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.” |
| information | Pages: 311 (novel) Book setting: Flowers for Algernon takes places in rollicking 1960s New York, around the same time the book was written., |
