Monday, October 14, 2013
Period 1- Advice
Think about the characters in Flowers for Algernon and their interactions with Charlie. What advice would you give to one or more of the characters regarding some of the issues they have faced throughout the story? This advice can be given to Charlie or any of the other characters in the story. Explain the reasons for the advice you have chosen to give them.
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I think the characters in Flowers for Algernon were quite mean to him in the beginning of the story before he had the operation. After ward and during the operation, the charcters began to realize that charlie gordon is not a stupid as they thought, and what they did was wrong. If i were to give any advice to them, it would be to treat people with respect and kindness, before you get to know them or they change. All people should be treated equal and if you are making fun of someone, then stop because you dont know how it makes them feel, or even in this case if they know it is hurtful. Charlie had no control over how smart he was, he tried for his entire life.
ReplyDeleteIn Flowers for Algernon, I think Dr. Nemur, and Dr. Strauss have the most descriptive bond with Charlie. The story is greatly based on the experiment they both contributed to. Therefore, I would give my advice to them. First off, I would advise them to continue researching for their work. Charlie came a very long way in such a short time, and he regressed just as fast. I think the technology they used can be improved to prevent the whole regression. If they can create a medical fix that can improve someones intelligence in such a short period of time, they should be able to create it so that there are no negative side effects. With some more time, and maybe help from other scientists and doctors, they might be able to increase intelligence of people, permanently. I would also give advice to Charlie. Being how I am now, I don't think I would have been gullible enough to be the first human to try the operation anyways. I know that Charlie didn't really know better, but I would have at-least advised him not to do it. I think if he never got the feeling of what it really was like to be smart, he would't have felt the need to run away, at the end. Also, the process put his life in danger. Algernon eventually died, and the same thing still might happen to Charlie. I don't think it was worth it. Wouldn't he rather live, then do this wild treatment to be smart just for a few weeks? And after, when Charlie's intelligence is fading, he is blaming himself. He think's it's his fault that he can't remember the spellings to big words, or the topic of the book he just read. In the long run, I think the operation would have been much safer, and much more effective to everyone, if they had just waited a few more years.
ReplyDeleteI would give advice to Charlie to always be who he is. He should now what are friends and what aren't friends. He should know that you don't always have to be smart just to make friends. He could be retarded and that's okay. He should have friends that respect him for who he is, not to make fun of him just because he is a little mental. He should continue to find himself in the world and not to go to people that make fun of him. He should know what he wants and what he has. He has Mrs. Flynn and Ms. Kinnian and they care about him, but he goes for Joe and Frank, who bully him every day on the job. But he learns eventually about them two and realizes that he can rely on Mrs. Flynn and Ms. Kinnian. So that's the advice that i would give Charlie about his life and what he knows about himself and what he should know about himself and who he is.
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ReplyDeleteI have chosen to give advice to Ms. Kinnian. I would tell Ms. Kinnian not to feel upset that Charlie's condition is getting extremely bad. I feel like Ms. Kinnian feels guilty for what is happening to Charlie because she has allowed him to do the operation. Ms. Kinnian continued to cry frequently whenever she saw Charlie, and I feel like she might have been feeling guilty. At the end, of the story when Charlie was back to where he started pre-operation, Ms. Kinnian cried a lot. I bet she wished she could help him in someway,,
If I had to give advice to anyone in the story it would be to think more before carrying out any actions. The people in the story did things and they didn't think of the consequences of their actions. For example, Dr. Nemur and Dr. Straus didn't think of the aftermath of the Algernon-Gordon effect because in the end, Algernon died and Charlie lost his intelligence. Joe and Frank were mean to Charlie and didn't know that it effected him and would make him depressed. Miss Kinnean didn't think of what would happen to Charlie after she sent him to the lab. Charlie didn't think of what the operation would do to Charlie after he became intelligent. Everyone should have thought more before what they did because in the end it only hurt people
ReplyDeleteI would give advice to two people in the story. Those two people are Charlie and Miss Kinnian. I would give Charlie advice to not shut people out when he is sad. At the end of the story Charlie was starting to get less smart and was becoming depressed because of this, so my advice to Charlie is to talk to people and ask for help when he is down. For example, when Doctor Strauss, doctor nemur and Miss Kinnian came to talk to him he should have let them in and talked to them because it could have helped Charlie feel better and maybe even try to get smart again but this time without the operation. I would also tell Charlie to not be angry with himself. The reason for Charlie's aggression and depression was because he was angry at himself because he knew he was regressing in knowledge, and there was nothing he could do about it. He has to learn to be proud of what he did accomplish and not angry about what is happening now. The last piece of advice I would give Charlie is to be happy with who he is. Even if he isn't smart anymore, if he accepts himself then others will begin to do the same thing. I would give advice to Miss Kinnian to not show Charlie how she is feeling. When she shows that she feels bad for Charlie it makes him feel even worse because it shows him that even she realizes how bad the stuff that is happening really is. Miss Kinnian also should try and talk to Charlie about what is going on to help him overcome what he is dealing with no matter how much Charlie doesn't want to talk because it could make him change his attitude and maybe try to learn again. They should take this advice to help Charlie overcome these hard times.
ReplyDeleteI think Charlie looks like he could use some advice. If I could tell Charlie any kind of advice, I'd tell him to never give up on his dreams. I would tell him that piece of advice because of the issues and challenges he has tried to accomplish. For example, when Charlie is at his maximum intelligence, he has calculated that his brain will begin to deteriorate, like Algernon's. As he is starting to put together his future, he starts to think about losing all of his intelligence and not being able to complete everyday tasks like he can now. If I told him to never give up on your dreams, I think he would realize that nothing can get in his way and that his hard work would in fact get him somewhere in life. I also think that this would help him remember his old self before the operation, the Charlie with a motor-vated and hard working personality. Overall I'd have to say that Charlie would definitely take the advice, "Never give up on your dreams" and actually do something with it.
ReplyDeleteIn Flowers for Algernon many of the character's faced several issues throughout the story. One of the character's that has faced many problems is Charlie Gordon. Charlie Gordon faces very different problems throughout the book, as time passes. In the beginning of the story, Charlie faces his mental challenges, and the desire to be smart like the rest of his peers. Charlie tried almost everything to get smart, but it didn't come to him. He then started taking many mental challenges, and tests, and then later a surgery. All these tests made Charlie even more anxious, and desperate to get smart. He was constantly being beaten by a tiny white mouse, named Algernon. Soon after he went through a surgery. Week by week Charlie's intelligence increased VERY rapidly, and he soon begun to realize things he never knew before. Charlie was smarter then all of the people around him, and he was soon isolated, like when he was mentally challenged. Algernon the mouse, who had the same surgery as Charlie, began to debilitate. Soon later Algernon died, and Charlie began to debilitate to. My advice to Charlie would have been to try to be satisfied with the way he is. He was so determined to be smart, he went through a surgery that ended up killing him slowly. He should have tried to settle with the way he was, because everyone was made a certain way for a certain purpose. Charlie could have been well, and healthy if he never rushed through this process. Also, another piece of advice I would give Charlie is to not go to the "extremities". He went from mentally challenged, to a genius, to mentally challenged. He went through complete opposite intellectual standpoints in months. He should have took it all slower, take it all in a normal pace.
ReplyDeleteWhen thinking about the characters in this story, many need advice. Although I believe that Ms. Kinnian needs the most advice. I was starting to realize that she was getting very emotional toward the end of the story. The advice i would tell her is that charlie is going to be okay. I would tell her that because she seemed upset that charlie had started to loose all his smartness. She was also already emotionally unstable from when charlie kicked her out that one day.
ReplyDeleteSome advice I would give to any of the characters is Charlie. Charlie should just go with the things of life and move forward. He should just accept the way he is. Trying to be someone else or being a person you seen will just make things much more worse making people think of you in a different way. In conclusion, being yourself and accepting who you are is better than trying to be someone else.
ReplyDeleteIn the story Flowers for Algernon, the characters treat Charlie differently throughout the story. For example, in the beginning, Joe Carp and Frank Reilly made fun of Charlie because of his mental challenges. As he got smarter, they started to leave him alone and tended to avoid him. In the end when Charlie started to get "dumb" again, they finally stood up for him. My advice for Joe and Frank is to treat everyone equally, no matter if they're smart or dumb. Being nice to everyone is important because it makes the person that you're being nice to feel good about themselves. Therefore, my advice to Joe and Frank is to treat everyone equally.
ReplyDeleteThe advice that I would give to Charlie is to never give up on what you want to achieve. Although at the end of the story he went back to the way he was, throughout the story he kept trying and trying to get smarter. Even after he was normal again he tried to get smarter by reading his old journal entries and by trying to remember anything he learned.
ReplyDeleteIf I had to give advice to one or more of the characters regarding some of the issues they have faced throughout the story, the characters would be Charlie and Professor Harold Nemur. The advice I would give to Charlie is that even though he cant remember everything( when he became smart) to at least try to remember that not everyone is your friend and to remember the people that was there through his difficultly. His should remember his teacher, Mrs.Kinnian, Professor Harold Nemur, Dr. Strauss, and Algernon. Next the advice I would give Professor Harold Nemur is to be proud that he was able to help Charlie who was retarded become smart again in s short time of period and that if he does any future projects/operations that he shouldn't have them as a laboratory experiment and more like a regular human being. Therefore, that would be the advice I gave them.
ReplyDeleteI would've given the advice be nice to people that are different than you to the workers at the factory because they weren't nice to Charlie just because he wasn't smart. Throughout the story, we saw how nice Charlie was, so they workers were just missing out on a new friend. If they'd been a little nicer to Charlie, maybe he wouldn't have wanted to become smarter and would've stayed in New York.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "Flowers for Algernon", a man named Charlie Gordon believes that it is crucial that he should become smart. He finds resources for school and jobs, but one thing pops up to his liking. He was offered to become the subject in an experiment to increase his intelligence. There were two doctors interacting with Charlie. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. They were both in the experiment on Charlie. However, they differ. Dr. Strauss was Charlie's best friend it seemed, but Dr. Nemur was "too uptight". This was most likely because he didn't want anyone to take credit for his experiment on Charlie. The advice i would give him would be that he should let up a little bit. I could understand that he wouldn't want anyone to take the credit away from him, but he should just worry about his own experiments that is/was running.
ReplyDeleteIn the story Flowers for Algernon Frank Reilly and Joe Carp both make fun of charlie as he is learning. I would tell Joe and Frank to actually help Charlie by giving him advice about learning and they could also guard Charlie if he is ever being picked on. I think Joe and Reilly and everyone else i the story should all support Charlie by giving him some motivation and keeping him from giving up.
ReplyDeleteI have advice for Charlie. Charlie faces a lot of tough situations throughout the story. My advice is more for Charlie towards the end of the story. Miss Kinnian cared about him so much. when he was losing his intelligence again, he started shutting people out, and wouldn't talk to anyone. My advice is to not shut out the ones who love you for you. Miss Kinnian was supportive of him all along, even when he wasn't smart. She didn't care what his IQ was, she still stuck with him. But when he was losing his smarts, he wouldn't talk to her, and that upset her. She just wanted to help. When you're upset, it's okay to have people to help you. You can't do anything on your own, it's impossible. A little help can go a long way.
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