Flowers for algernon

If you were given a choice to have an operation that would make you much smarter, would you do it, especially if you knew the effects of the surgery would only be temporary? Why or why not? Use examples from the story.


For me, I wouldn't have that surgery even it was only temporary. I feel like this surgery would be sort of like cheating. If you use it, it wouldn't be fair for the people that worked hard to get much knowledge as you would get with the surgery. Plus, it would give you something very valuable you would need to have but it's temporary so it would be taken away and that's worse than not getting the surgery in the first place. Also, having the surgery to make me smarter may come with a bad price. Like in the story when Charlie found out that the people weren't his friends and that they were just using him for their entertainment. I could also find out something that I didn't want to find out and might regret finding about it. Then when Charlie get smarter and people wanted to avoid him and would despises him for being that smart, that might happen to me. I would intimidate people away from me and I would be left alone. Getting really smart does sound really good even if it's temporary but it certainly comes with negatives and I don’t think I can live with them. Even if it’s only temporary but the damages would still be made.