Flowers for Algernon
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Flowers for Algernon
4.99 €
This was once considered science fiction.
Now it's perceived as one of the most humane works of modern times, a novel of piercing psychological power, a delicate development of the themes of love and responsibility.
Charlie Gordon's changes are happening before our eyes, here and now. His first reports are full of errors, but then they disappear, and his presentation of his thoughts becomes flawless. And in the end, it's all simple. Geniuses and idiots are two sides of the same coin. They have different IQs, different living conditions, but they share one thing: often, both are infinitely lonely. And the price for the dream—to become intelligent—becomes too high.
Charlie has a doppelganger, the mouse Algernon. Only Charlie understands the mouse's behavior and the fact that he himself is destined to be nothing more than a lab mouse. He feels ill, and the ending is predictable. His heart sinks, and tears flow...
"I laid a bouquet of daisies on his grave and cried for a long time."
Now it's perceived as one of the most humane works of modern times, a novel of piercing psychological power, a delicate development of the themes of love and responsibility.
Charlie Gordon's changes are happening before our eyes, here and now. His first reports are full of errors, but then they disappear, and his presentation of his thoughts becomes flawless. And in the end, it's all simple. Geniuses and idiots are two sides of the same coin. They have different IQs, different living conditions, but they share one thing: often, both are infinitely lonely. And the price for the dream—to become intelligent—becomes too high.
Charlie has a doppelganger, the mouse Algernon. Only Charlie understands the mouse's behavior and the fact that he himself is destined to be nothing more than a lab mouse. He feels ill, and the ending is predictable. His heart sinks, and tears flow...
"I laid a bouquet of daisies on his grave and cried for a long time."
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