Thursday, September 22, 2011
Week 3 Flowers For Algernon: Courtney Hanneman
In the novel you hear alot of voice from Charlie(the most). I would have to say that there isn't alot of power in the novel, but who wants power is Charlie. Charlie has a hard time excepting that he is different from most people and would like to be like others but when he gets the operation he realizes that he is way smarter then everyone else in the world! Power affects the charcters because in Charlie's case he wants more and when he gets it he doesn't want to be that smart because Alice has a hard time accepting that he is way smarter because he went from being dumb at a 70% IQ to 185% IQ. I would have to say that race is somewhat of a problem in this novel because the people at the bakery always used to make fun of Charlie and when Charlie goes back he sees them picking on another mentally retarded boy and tries to stand up for the boy. Charlies mom was another example of race because she couldn't except Charlie for who he was and always wanted him to be smart and never showed him love or affection.
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I have to disagree Courtney, I believe there is a lot of power in this book. In the beginning Charlie has no power, but his friends hold all the power because they can make Charlie do whatever they want. Then when Charlie goes to see the professors and gets the surgery, they hold all the power to his life because they can either make him smart or maybe even hurt him. It’s not until after the surgery and a couple weeks that Charlie finally gets some of the power to control his life. You can notice the more you read into the book the smarter he gets and the more he realizes that people are taking advantage of him. Finally, at the conference is when Charlie decides that no one is going to control his life anymore and that all the people that had work on him were wrong. When he runs away is when he finally gains all his power and he finally has the chance to tell people what to do.
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