Daniel Keyes

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Daniel Keyes

• Raised in Brooklyn, NY
• Majored in psychology in college
• Many of his writings deal with psychology and
  science
• Has been a photographer, merchant seaman, and
  editor
• Has written fiction and nonfiction

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About the Story

• Winner of the Hugo Award of Science Fiction
  Writers of America
• Has been expanded into a novel, film adaptation,
  and Broadway musical
• Received idea for story after he met a mentally
  disadvantaged young man and he began to wonder
  what would happen if it were possible to increase
  human intelligence

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Intelligence Quotient

• IQ is determined by a test first developed at the
  turn of the 20th century.
• IQ of 100 is considered average
• Today, however, we realize that intelligence
  cannot accurately be measured by just one test
  and people have different types of ability

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Point of View

• Refers to the readers vantage point from which
  the story is told
• Ist person point of view is told from the
  perspective of one of the characters
• Story uses pronouns I, me, my and other
  first person pronouns
• Limited to things that the character telling the
  story sees, feels, and thinks