Intelligence is Anything (week 4 post)

I liked Flowers for Algernon better because it had more detail in the novel and I liked more of the characters in it than in Of Mice and Men. Each novel says that intelligence is key point to a good life and society expects people to be in sync with everything and nothing is going a different way. Lennie and Charlie are much alike and they both do not have much intelligence which messes up societies expectations of everyone being the same and can do anything. The thing is they could do anything, but society does not accept it in a good way and to not deal with mentally handicapped children and adults like Lennie and Charlie, they disallow them a job most of all and a normal life. The authors of both novels convey the message of intelligence in both of the novels by showing normal people work with mentally handicapped people and how it does not matter if your IQ is below normal because you can still function. Lennie was not that smart and he could still work at the farm him and George went to and Charlie before the surgery could still understand concepts that were at his level and he could write a little bit. I guess intelligence could mean many different things. It doesn’t mean you have to smart like normal people or Einstein, if you are mentally handicapped, you can just be yourself.