Flowers For Algernon

If you were given a choice to have an operation that would make you much smarter, would you do it, especially if you knew that the effects of the surgery would only be temporary? why or why not? Use examples from the story.

If i was given a choice to have an operation that would make me much smarter i would have rejected the operation specially if i knew that the side effects of the operation were only going to be temporary. i would have rejected the operation because i wouldn't want to be a lot smarter than i am and then get it taken away and be back to normal, in my opinion everything will change because the friends i have and all the people who i talk to will also change when i got the operation done. Of course if i did get the operation i would know more people and talk to more too but i will also lose friends, and by the time when everything goes back to normal the friends i used to have wouldn't really talk to me since they stopped talking to me before, and the people who i started talking to wouldn't talk to me either since i wouldn't be as smart as i was, Just like what happened to charlie... he started to talk to people when he was as smart as a genius, but when he went back to normal all the people who he claimed to be his friends were just laughing at him. this is why i would reject the operation. i rather be myself just the way i am normally