Can anyone help me compare the two novals flowers for Algernon and The Pearl?

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Can anyone help me compare the two novals flowers for Algernon and The Pearl?
Both stories share a theme. That theme is...becareful what you ask for because you just might get it.





In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie wants to be smart. He feels his life will become better if he could be smart. However, the smarter he becomes, the more he loses. He realizes his friends aren't his friends, and then he discovers he is too smart. His life goes from one extreme to the other. In his case ignorance is truly bliss.


In his quest to become smart he loses everything including his life.





In the Pearl Kino is happily married, poor but happy until Coyotito is stung by the scorpion. After being insulted by the doctor, he and his wife are driven to search for a pearl to pay the doctor. Upon finding the pearl of the world, fortunately by this time Juana has cured Coyotito and it is no longer necessary to pay a doctor. Unfortunately, the news of the pearl has spread and his is faced with the greed and treacherous nature of those around him. The story ends, just as Flowers for Algernon ends, with loss. Coyotito loses the thing which connects him with his past, his family canoe, and the thing which connects him with his future, his son.





Both characters, Charlie and Kino realize too late that their lives were perfect in the beginning and end the story sadly with regret for wanting to change it.





Both characters end up worse than they started. Charlie faces the same fate as Algernon...death. Kino loses his child.
Reply:It's been an awfully long time since I read those, but what occurs to me is that they're both about change. Like, drastic life-changing things that happen to the main person in the story. In one it's some kind of medical thing that makes the person smart and in the other one it's finding this incredible treasure. The constrast would be that in Algernon, things go back to the way they were, and in The Pearl, things can never go back. The other thing is even though they end in different ways, both stories are sad.