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 know 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 smarter I think I would, even though it doesn't last forever, then again maybe not. I would take the operation even though I knew it was temporary because it is chance for me to know how it is being smart and for people to stop making fun of me like people did to Benjamin. It is nice to know things instead of being retarded. Then again it was temporary and you won't last long. In the story Algernon died after the operation. So Charlie is going to die, too. I wouldn't want it if I'm not going to live after it worked. There is no point in having it if you are not going to live.