Tuesday, September 13, 2011
C is for change :)
The author influenced me to view people with mental handicaps as people who can’t take care of themselves. I feel the author’s opinion about mentally challenged people is mean and very rude. The author made people like Charlie sound like they should be put into homes with people just like them. I was very surprise by the way the author made people with mental handicaps sound. As I kept reading the book the more I found that Charlie was better off before the surgery then after and maybe that’s what the author wanted you to see. He wants you to see that others may view people with mental handicaps as people who need to be locked up and that’s why at the end of the book the author made Charlie’s IQ begin to digress to show that it doesn’t matter if have a handicap or not that person is still a human being. The novel didn’t affect my way of thinking about people with mental disabilities. I have always felt that no matter what everyone should be treated like a human being because that’s what they are. People with mental handicaps are still treated in almost the same way today as in the novel. Some people will still make fun of them because they are different. I’ve never heard of a home for the mental handicapped, but I bet they’re still out there. I think more schools are accepting of allowing student that are mentally challenged to be in their schools and in classes with the other kids. Overall I feel we have made progress in the way we view the mentally challenged.
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Hey Megan, I agree with what you are saying and the author of Flowers for Algernon was rude in some ways against Charlie. It must have been during the time the book was published; retarded people were looked down upon. Also, I thought to myself after I was reading past Charlie’s surgery, that he should not have gone through the surgery because he was still a good person, even though he did not know better. I feel like the doctors and scientists are taking advantage of him just to be their lab rat like Algernon. Even though Charlie has figured out a lot about his past life from his dreams, his family still could have visited him to keep in touch. I never understood why his family has not spoken to him ever since they made him go to the Warden School. It seems to me they are ashamed he is their son especially when it was a different time. Anyway, thanks for posting that because I feel exactly the same way.
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