molly+sci+fi

Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Verso: //Flowers for Algernon// is about a boy named Charlie who has a very low IQ. That prevents him from dong simple things like reading, writing, and other basic communication. He is referred to doctors, Dr. Strauss, a Prophesier Nemur, who will perform an operation on him that will make him smarter, the operation worked great on the mouse that first tested it. All is well until the mouse mentally ages dramatically, and becomes shut inside himself. Leaving the doctors to wonder will the same thing happen to Charlie. Science/Technology theme: How the book fits in to the science/tech theme is that first there is an operation that will make you smarter. Second is that the book was originally published in 1959 and sifi is basically imagining what could happen in the future. In 2011 we do not (or at least that I know of) have an operation like that but, we have many similar. Like surgeries for your eyes if you can’t see, cleft palette and face reconstruction for people with birth defects, safe limb removal if your life is at risk, body part trans plants, and other surgeries. Technology is what has saved many people and in this book it saves Charlie from himself and his mind. The main problem with Charlie is his low IQ he faces challenges with things like reading, writing, and other basic communication. He is referred to the doctors and they give him an operation to make him smart. It works soon; he is as smart as the doctors, smarter than most people. But all good things must come to an end, when the mouse the experiment is tested on goes crazy and dies. Soon it’s a race ageist the clock to see if the same will happen to Charlie. All the while Charlie is getting smarter and aging. He had the IQ and was treated like a not so bright six year old. Now older he tries to understand what happening to him both mentally and physically.