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K-Cee-Kay s Kamari Delfine Courtney Carroll Karlee Cox

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Now;

Now ^^

Before group homes, mentally challenged people went to asylums and were mistreated. They would be made fun of and no one ever did anything about it because it was just normal nothing was wrong with it. Now, there are group homes and the mentally challenged people are treated like everyone else and many will not tolerate mistreatment to these people. Before, people could get away with making fun of them now they can't. How these people are treated now is different than how they used to be treated.

Karlee Cox^^^^^^^^^^^^

Courtney Carroll vv(:
//My focus point is mostly the title and what it symbolized, 'Flowers for Algernon'. Usually when you think of death you think of sorrow or grave then you think of perhaps FLOWERS. I think that the title sort of means or persuades the reader that Algernon was going to die. In addition, when Charlie says "put flowers on his grave" I am leaning toward Charlie meaning when he dies don't forget about him as well. This could mean many different things but in my mind, this is how I took it.// accuracy in history- the book 'Flowers for Algernon' was very accurate to the time period in which it was set. It showed how mean people were to mentally challenged people back then and showed how much it hurt them, even if they didn't realize it. the slower people may think you really like them and that you are, indeed, their friend but on the inside you know you just like to make fun of them. As with Charlie, he didn't know everybody was making fun of him, at first, but as he grew smarter he understood, those "friends" were not really his friends at all. Daniel Keyes, the author, was trying to ask people, if the roles had been switched and you were the retarded one, would you want people making fun of you your entire life, for something you cannot control? he wanted people to feel the pain and hurt that Charlie felt when he realized that all of his so called friends only liked him when they seemed smart around him, when they could make fun of him. keyes, in my mind, was trying to get people to change their ways and stop picking fun at the mentally challenged. they cant change themselves anymore than average people. they have a thirst for knowledge but their brains cannot comprehend it as fast as others. - kamari delfine