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Monday, June 4, 2012

Flowers for Algernon (14/10)

Flowers for algernon is an interesting book which is about increasing someone's intelligence. The main character, Charlie, was an mentally challenged who has only 68 of IQ but after the increase of intelligence experiment, his IQ got to 3 times than before which is about 204. Before, he doesn't know anything. People make him do jobs that doesn't require lots of knowledge. Charlie also doesn't know how to interact with other people. After the operation, his life changes a lot. His life start to have something good happened and something bad happened. His intelligence boost up a lot which makes him very smart and he knows a lot of things afterward. But at the same, his intelligence also make him different from the rest of the people because he's too smart. He starts to let other people to feel inferior complex. He also realizes what he was treated before he did the operation. After a period of time, his intelligence starts to regress due to the effect of the operation. He starts to turn back to the "old" Charlie but his memory is still exist. He still remember all the things he did when he was at IQ of 204. At the end, he decides to move out and start a new life.

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