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Flowers For Algernon 3 - College Term Papers

Flowers For Algernon 3

Flowers For Algernon was told from the point of view of Charlie, the person the
intelligence-increasing surgery was performed on. The story would have been very different if it was told through the eyes of another character in the story. Views on things like the surgery and whether or not it was successful would probably not be the same as Charlie’s views at all.
Professor Nemur was one of the scientists in charge of the experiment. He would probably would have been very impersonal if he were narrating the book. He would have seen the pre-surgery Charlie as inhuman, and would probably have talked about how he had basically created Charlie.
If Alice Kinnian, Charlie’s ...

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again, even if for only a short time.
If the people from the bakery had been telling Flowers For Algernon, then they
would have written about how Charlie had gone from being retarded to being a genius in just a few weeks. They hadn’t been told about the surgery. They probably would have said how they thought something really weird was going on.

If someone else had been narrating Flowers for Algernon, the story could have been very different. For instance, Charlie saw Professor Nemur as arrogant, but if Nemur had been keeping the journal, then we might think of Charlie as the stuck-up one. In other words, point of view has a very big part in this ...

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Added: 7/11/2006 02:25:50 PM
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