In Flowers for Algernon the story is told from Charlie’s perspective, and we do not get the point of view from any one else that we meet in the book. Charlie although he may not fully comprehend it he has a lot of power through out the book because he is so smart, he asked the board for lab resources and they told him that he had the whole lab at his disposal and that when he was in there is work took president over the other research being done in that lab. Women in the book also have a lot of power yet their power is over Charlie because of his childhood and being beat constantly by his mother and her saying that he was never to touch or be with women, it definitely left a huge emotional scar in his life to the point he would get sick any time he was with Alice. In the beginning parts of the book Dr. Nemur and Professor Strauss have all the power over Charlie because he is not as smart as them and even when he does have the surgery it takes him until he is at the conference in Chicago that he realizes that the two men he looked up to and as geniuses Charlie realized that he was smarter than them and that they no longer had the power to control Charlie. Well that’s all for now.
JL P.
I agree with you J.L. Power can drive a person crazy. I think Charlie's mom went crazy because all the power and authority was with her and she could not change Charlie so she felt it was her obligation to make him not retarded but when that failed I think she got down on herself badly. Nemur and Strauss have the power over Charlie, which I agree with, because they are smarter than him and seemed to know what they were talking about. When Charlie got brighter he realized they were using him and his own intelligence helped him gain the power in the relationship between the three of them.
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