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For my movie poster, I decided to include a black background inorder to represent the darkness Charlie Gordon lives in. At the beginning of the book, he lives in intellectual darkness, being unaware of some of the most simplistic ideas many of us learn at our earliest schooling. However, as his intellect increases, he becomes more encompassed by emotional darkness--struggling to understand his own feelings as well has other people's feelings as well.

The faded man behind a window represents Charlie Gordon--the protagonist. He is faded because of his "faded" mind. His mind remains unclear to reality and, though he may gain knowledge, he never gains wisdom or emotional prudence. Also, he is behind a window because of the continuous mentioning of the old Charlie Gordon throughout the book. As Charlie gains intellegence, his old self seems to reappear (often behind a window) whenever he becomes intimate with Alice Kinnian--his school teacher. The intellegent Charlie comes to the conclusion that the old Charlie is begging for his body back and won't dissappear until he does so.

The mouse is simply a picture of Algernon, the mouse that is surgically made intellegent before Charlie. In the beginning of the novel, Charlie and Algernon race the same maze, and everytime they raced, Algernon would come out victorious and Charlie would become very frustrated. Eventually, after Charlie's operation, Charlie began to beat Algernon and became faster and faster at accomplishing the mazes. Algernon was very important in Charlie's life and, towards the end when Charlie discovers the problem the doctors made, he published his thesis: //The Algernon-Gordon Effect//.

The font in which the title, //Flowers for Algernon//, is written is representative of the handwriting of Charlie. This would show the poor penmenship that Charlie had as an unintellegent man; however he eventually gains knowledge far beyond his imagination.

The quote, I think, is one of the main rhetorical questions that is presented in this novel. It really shows the struggle that Charlie goes through, throughout his time becoming more and more intellegent.

Finally, the rating in which I gave the movie was PG-13. The sexual content was not much by any means; however the fact that there is some implications that there are intimate attractions between certain people suggest that the movie should be rated above PG, but not tawdry enough for R. Also, the language used in the movie was only enough to get the author's point across rather than to provide a crude scene. Lastly, the drunkened acts and content of alcohol cause the movie to settle at a rating of PG-13.