"Flowers for Algernon": To Operate or Not?

Dear Readers of My Blog,

I am fully supportive of Charlie Gordon’s decision to go for the operation. Why do I say so?

Firstly, it was his wish to want to become smart and not stay dumb. He was willing to bear any pain to achieve this. I believe that everyone should do what he/she wants as long as it is not against the law. There is nothing wrong for Charlie to want to become intelligent and acquire knowledge, even if the result is temporary.

Before the operation, his factory-mates made fun of him but Charlie did not know and still thought that they were his friends. It was only after the operation that Charlie realised they were laughing at him and were not his friends. In life, we have many friends but how many can we truly call “friends”? Charlie was fortunate to be able to finally know who his true friends were: Fanny and Miss Kinnian.

Some people may argue that after the operation, he lost all his friends but are they really his friends? It seems to me that they befriended him with a condition tagged: when he is dumb and they can make fun of him and make use of his kindness to their advantage.

After the operation, he did not slack but used his newly-found intelligence to help increase humans’ intelligence. Knowing that his intelligence was deteriorating rapidly, he worked extremely hard to complete his study for the benefit of the community. Without this operation, he would not be able to complete this study.

After he became his old self, he remained very much motivated to work very hard to relive the feeling of being intelligent.

Thus, I strongly feel that he made the right choice.

What do you think?

See you soon :)

Nathan