There are two kinds of people in the world; the people that see the human as a perfect being, and the people who see their imperfections and try to make it better. This is what genetic engineering is all about, to pursue perfection. And although some would say that perfection is impossible, others are trying to make the impossible possible by experiments to improve the actual estate of every animal, plant, flower or human in the planet. Genetic engineering is topic that must keep in mind, reading stories or watching the news, because someday the mind we have could have been genetically engineered.
“Flowers for Algernon” by David Keyes is the story about a mentally retarded man named Charlie Gordon, who as a part of an experimental surgery gets his triples his IQ. Charlie works as a janitor in a bakery and before de operation he believes that his coworkers are good friends, is not until he becomes intelligent when he realizes that they only made fun of him. When his teacher......
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