Between the two novels, I really thought both were not good. Honestly if I had to pick I would say I liked Flowers for Argenon better because it had more of a modern problem and solution that Of Mice and Men. I liked Flowers better because of how it showed a useless human being changed over time due to the result of one surgery. If that surgery was a true solution in this society I believe this book would help people decide whether they want to have it or not. I believe that through these books, it shows society accepts smart people and that the smarter people succeed more than the mentally ill. In a society with more normal people than people with disabilities the people who were born with these disabilities are treated differently than those who aren’t and are sometimes even discriminated against because of their lack of mental capacity. For example Lennie is treated differently by Curley because he is a bigger and dumber man than all the rest so therefore Curley believes he can take his anger out on him. Another example is how Nemur convinced Charlie of taking the risk of the surgery because Nemur was smarter and seemed to know what he was doing so Charlie agreed with him and went with the procedure. The characters help the author say that people with the mental disabilities will most likely never make it through life completely by themselves. They always need someone there to watch over them or they could lose their lives like the case of Lennie.
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