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Blowers For Algernon
The story, ¨Flowers For Algernon¨ and movie, ¨Charly¨, there were things that were way off and spot on, such as Algernon dying, the tests for the operation, and Charly falling in love with Ms. Kinian. Algernon died in the film and the text after the operation where'd off on him. In both text and film, Algernon died and Charlie was very sad about it and he knew that soon would happen to him too. In the film, ¨Charly¨, and story, ¨Flowers For Algernon¨, Charlie had to take tests before the operation to see if he would be accepted. In the movie, Charlie took the tests the doctors gave him and Ms. Kinian was the person to test him, but in the story, there were two different doctors that gave Charlie the tests, not Ms. Kinian. Charlie falls in love

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