Both of the novels that we read in Senior English so far were good. I enjoyed them both. I enjoyed Flowers for Algernon more. I feel as if it had a better storyline than Of Mice and Men. I’m not so sure why we are reading so many books on mentally challenged people, but I think it is wrong how mentally challenged people are looked down upon by society. To get a true perspective of what mentally challenged people have to deal with, I attempt to imagine myself in their shoes. When I am in their shoes, all I want is for someone to stand up for me, but rarely does that happen. I think that people are afraid to stand up for mentally challenged people, because if they do people will pick on them instead. In the novels, Charlie and Lennie are somewhat similar, because they both have someone kind of looking out for them. Lennie has George and Charlie has Alice and Fay. In Flowers for Algernon Charlie just regressed and didn’t die. Lennie never became smart, but he just stayed the same level of intelligence. I wonder what would’ve happened if Lennie had surgery to make him smart. I wonder if the operation would have worked this time? Unless you gave professor Nemur a little more time, odds are that Lennie would regress back to his regular self. If Lennie had the surgery, I wonder if he would have found a different place to work, and possibly bought the farm for George and himself.
Matt, I agree with what you say in your blog post. You make a good point when you say that you think Flowers for Algernon had a better story line. I think it might have been because it was a longer book so they fit more into it unlike Of Mice and Men. When you say that you think we’re reading so many novels on mentally challenged people and don’t know why I think maybe it could be because we have kind of a lot of mentally handicapped kids in our school and reading all these novels are a good way for us to see how it feels to be in their shoes, and then more of us can make them feel accepted and normal. When you said how you wonder if Lennie had the operation done that Charlie had done I thought that was interesting because I wonder if it would have been permanent since Nemur would have had some more time to perfect it so that it wouldn’t just be temporary. Lastly, I have to agree with you again, Flowers for Algernon was definitely WAY better than Of Mice and Men! Alright bye(:
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