Flowers for Algernon tells the story of Charlie, he has 68 IQ and will undergo surgery that will gradually turn him into a genius.As the plot unfolds, we will get to know the character's past and his discoveries before the world with a new way of processing the information that the brain with a higher IQ receives

What's it about?

The book makes us question about life issues such as loneliness, empathy, and humanity. The initial suffering of people with intellectual disabilities being considered as humorous toys by others of the same species, says a lot about how we humans deal with the perception of inferiority we have of the other. To what extent is research that plans to change human characteristics acceptable? Is human testing acceptable?

Ethics in research and science

In the end we are all humans with life perspective, feelings, and thoughts. Certain characteristics do not define us as better or worse than someone else. Here is my reflection on how the book moved me in relation to humanitarian tact and how we see life and other people.

Respect and quality of life

The hardest thing in life is knowing yourself.

Life in society

An amazing book and from the beginning you are impressed when you go blindly reading the story without any kind of information about it. I recommend it to people who like psychology.

Charlie embarks on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius ... and introduces him to heartache. When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesn't hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key - he hopes - to being valued as a human being and to being loved. Daniel Keyes's powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of Algernon (the mouse who is an earlier subject of a similar experiment) remains unique in imaginative literature. We follow Charlie Gordon's mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. We watch with excitement as he becomes the focus of attention by the scientific world, his intellectual capacities far surpassing those of the psychologists and neurosurgeons who engineered his metamorphosis. We also follow the progress of his romance with two women, one who knew him before the experiment as well as with another, who knows him only as the attractive, bright, and sympathetic man he has become. And, finally, we hope against hope that what happens suddenly, unexpectedly, to Algernon will not happen to Charlie.

Flowers for Algernon

What's it about?

Ethics in research and science

Respect and quality of life

TALES DE MILETO

Life in society

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