I would like to be friends with Doctor Nemur. Why? Well, Doctor Nemur is the smartest character in the story (excluding Charlie Gordon after the operation) and created the method to increasing human intelligence. I would like to learn from him about how the operation was done and what were the scientific concepts behind them.
Although Doctor Nemur is arrogant and does not treat mentally retarded people with respect, he was still gifted. If he continued developing his experiment and finds a way to make the intelligence increasing operation irreversible, he would revolutionize the world! After all, who does not want to be friends with a famous and gifted scientist, such as Albert Einstein?
Many readers would perhaps prefer to be friends with Charlie Gordon, as he is kind, to be pitied and et cetera. However, that is all because of how the author Daniel Keyes portrays them! The point of view of the story is through Charlie Gordon's eyes, so whatever entries he post are biased towards him, even if he thinks it is not. It is nature that Man thinks that whatever he does is right, or at least not as bad as what other people think it is. If the story had been written in Doctor Nemur's point of view, readers will probably start pitying him. After all, he has gone through so much work to create such an experiment to have it end with Doctor Strauss trying to snatch his fame and finally to have the experiment fail.
In conclusion, I want to be friends with Doctor Nemur not only for his intelligence but also because I feel that no one cares about him.
Regards,
Chong Kai En, 1I106
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