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Essay Archive - The Cause and the Loss: Comparison Between "Mice and Men" and "Flowers
The Cause and the Loss: Comparison Between "Mice and Men" and "Flowers for
Algernon"
In the novel 'Of Mice and Men' (John Stienbeck) a mentally challenged
man, Lenny, loses his innocence when he accidentally breaks a woman's neck.
In the novel 'Flowers for Algernon' (Daniel Keyes) another mentally
challenged man, Charlie, loses his innocence when, through the aid of an
operation, he realizes all his life people were mocking him rather than
being his friends. Although, in both cases innocence was the loss, their
innocence was also the underlying cause of the los....
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