Charlies Treatment Essays - The Moth, Charlie Pace, Charlie Rose

Charlie's Treatment Charlie, the main character in Charlie, by Daniel Keyes is treated differently by everyone he knows. Imagine you had mental retardation. You only know the basics of anything. You can't spell and have an extremely limited vocabulary. Suddenly you have an experimental operation. This makes you extremely smart. Now you can understand emotions. With this new understanding you know how everyone has been treating you. Compared to everyone else Charlie is treated nicely by his father. His father protects him from most everyone. Even his mother. Not only does his father accept him but excepts the fact that Charlie is retarded. "How do you know? What do you know about this man? If there was anything that could be done, the doctors would have told us a long time ago." (94, Keyes). This is what Matt, the father, was saying to Rose, the mother. They were at a doctors office with the young Charlie. Rose felt that Dr. Guarino could make Charlie smart. Matt is skeptical that this could work. He is right, it doesn't. Charlie's mother treats him much differently than Matt. How Rose treats Charlie can classified into two phases. Before Norma, his sister, was born Rose was kind and loving towards Charlie. However, once Norma was born Rose was harsh and concerned that Charlie would hurt, or even kill Norma. In the book there is an incident in which Rose was planning to kill Charlie if he wasn't sent away. Again, before Norma was born Rose would have done anything to make Charlie smart. "He's going to be normal, whatever we have to do, whatever it costs." (94, Keyes). This is what Rose said to Matt just before they went to see Dr. Guarino. Rose will also believe anything that is said about Charlie becoming smart. On the whole, before Norma was born Rose loved and cherished Charlie, and after, she neglected and hated him. Another person who mirrors Rose's actions is Professor Nemur. Prof. Nemur was one of the scientists who performed the experiment on Charlie. Before Charlie had the operation Prof. Nemur was treating him like an object. Although, Charlie didn't know it one could feel it from the reading. After the operation Charlie notices this and makes Prof. Nemur aware. "He treated me - even then - as a human being. It may sound like ingratitude, but this is one of the things I resent here - the attitude that I am a guinea pig. Nemur's constant references to having made me what I am, or that someday there will be others like me who will become real human beings." (101, Keyes). The "he" Charlie mentions is Dr. Guarino. This quote shows just how differently everyone treated him. Prof. Strauss, like Matt, treats Charlie with more respect that Nemur. Prof. Strauss is another scientist working on the experiment with Charlie. He gives advice and understands some problems Charlie has. When Charlie is at a medical convention with the professors there is a small party. At this party Prof. Nemur is explaining Charlie's experiment. Charlie interrupts Nemur with talk of an article which attacked the way they reversed his retardation. Nemur shrugs it off and continues. At that point Charlie starts to talk to Strauss. "What did I day that upset him in that way?" (104, Keyes). Charlie asked Strauss "You're making him feel inferior and he can't take it." (104, Keyes). Strauss responds. "I'm serious for god's sake. Tell me the truth." (104, Keyes). "Charlie, you've got to stop thinking that everyone is laughing at you. Nemur couldn't discuss those articles because he hasn't read them." (104, Keyes). This short conversation shows two things. It shows that Strauss is concerned about Charlie and feels it would be better to help him. Also, it shows that Nemur doesn't want his experiment. In other words he wants to be in the limelight. These conflicting feelings confuses Charlie. Since his intellectual side much exceeds his emotional side he doesn't know how to handle these new emotions. In the movie Charlie asks Alice why people don't make fun of a cripple, or someone who's deaf but do make fun of a moron. Anyone who does make fun of a retarded person is unfair to all

Brittany essays

Brittany essays The particular significance of Brittany lies in its transformation from a region marginal to the rest of France, both culturally and economically, to a leading agricultural area of the country (Roger Dalton Brittany has traditionally suffered out migration, particularly of the younger population. So much so that the area was still under demographic pressure immediately after the end of the Second World War. Increases in farm sizes have reduced labour needs over the years. 235,000 farms in 1955, reduced to 175,000 in 1970 and to less than 80,000 in 1994 (Canevet, 1994). Four or five people per sq km were the areas worst recorded levels of population density within central Brittany. Low incomes and poverty increased emigration as over 1 million people left Brittany between 1860 and 1960. The possibilities of industries and increases in tertiary sectors looked bleak. So small peasant farms had no real choice but to try and intensify their crops and livestock. MAP showing agricultural region in need of aid. Brittany is an agricultural area, which had a very agricultural landscape. Substantial removal of Bocage, changed the landscape in preparation for the intensification of the agricultural economy in Brittany. Bocage is 'a chess board of little fields and meadows surrounded by hedgerow trees' (de Martonne, 1933) Losses of 7% of land to urban growth since 1970, and elevated areas in central Brittany have also been abandoned. This has resulted in a decline in land area, yet a greater usage of existing land. Area accounts for over one third of feedstuffs within France, and that is the reason why the large market within Brittany itself allows locals to get it for 10-12% less in value, thus allowing the agricultural and livestock sectors to thrive. Growing competition from abroad in the fishing industry has resulted in Brittany becoming an expensive place to fish. Breton's parliament was ...