Flowers for Algernon
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002NRMNR6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brock R. said True artwork. I was recommended this book by my mother who read it as a child. Even though I knew how it would end the book filled me with hope on every new page, until it didn't. I caught myself hoping that my mother hadn't remembered the ending correctly, and everything would be fine. Flowers for Algernon tackles many complex issues from the mistreatment and misunderstanding of the mentally handicapped, the burden of knowledge that every person with common sense thinks they experience but doesn't truly understand, to the meaning of existence and the human condition. You don't read Flowers for Algernon to feel happy at the end. You read it to cry, t. It was good enough that I had to buy it as an Seamonkey88 This a book which I read as a child and opened my eyes to different viewpoints on life. It was good enough that I had to buy it as an adult to read to my wife. The story is straightforward and easy to comprehend at any level. Don't think that makes it boring though; the character development is really the driving force behind the plot.. "for the ones that can't speak for themselves" according to S. S. Gaztambide. This book is a classic. I don't know why I read it when I did, but I'm sure glad I did. I can't even write about it without tears escaping my eyes. It is a story about the human mind, innocence, love and the people that can't speak for themselves.Don't die without making "Flowers for Algernon" part of your conscience.
Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving: I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charli
This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life.Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award-winning motion picture, Charly. In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year.. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. Charlie Gordon knows that he isn’t very bright. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. But all of this is about to change for Charlie.As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie’s brain. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by