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b. Who would you want to be friends with in the Flowers for Algernon. Explain your choice.

I would like to be friends with Miss Kinnian in Flowers for Algernon. My reason for this is because Miss Kinnian is a very dedicated teacher who is willing to teach Charlie Gordon to change from a dumb person to a highly intelligent boy. She was Charlie Gordon’s teacher right from the start of the story before he even took the operation to when he became a researcher. Throughout the experiment, Miss Kinnian was the one who taught Charlie Gordon the most; languages, punctuations and many more, unlike the other two doctors, who at most gave him a TV to become smarter.

Also, Miss Kinnian is a very caring person. Miss Kinnian was the one who recommended Charlie for the operation, but before it, Miss Kinnian bothered to ask Charlie if he still wanted to take the operation as there were risks involved and also, the results might be temporary. Even after taking the operation, Miss Kinnian still had doubts to whether it was correct or not to have Charlie undergo the test due to the risks as we can see from progress report on April 28, “Never mind, Charles. I just hope I wasn’t wrong to advise you to go into this in the first place.”