An episode-level homage. "Flowers for Charlie" is closely based on the novel: Charlie is given an experimental treatment to make him a genius, with predictably temporary results.
Book· 1966· Science Fiction
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 2 recorded sources.
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An episode-level homage. "HOMR" follows the novel's plot: Homer's intelligence is raised by a medical procedure, isolates him, and he chooses to give it up.
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Daniel Keyes has said he wrote Flowers for Algernon to test Aristotle's dictum in the Poetics that a tragic hero must fall from a height: here the height is intelligence, and the man who falls is Charlie Gordon.
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- Neuroscience
The story of a man whose intelligence is raised by an experimental brain operation first tested on the mouse Algernon, told through his progress reports as his mind grows and fails.