In the story Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, the author depicts how experimenting on people with the hope of “fixing” or “improving” them can cause more harm than good. Some people encourage the idea of experimenting, but is medically altering a human being’s brain and mind a good idea? This book shows how people view experimenting, and that maybe our medical procedures don’t always last forever. There are many books that show how human experimentation can negatively affect our society as a whole, and individually, such as Children of the Flames, which is about Mengele’s experiments. Josef Mengele was a physician at the concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War 2. He was deeply intrigued by twins and wanted to use them for…show more content… In the book Children of the Flames, written by Lucette Matlon Lagnado, the survivors of Mengele’s corrupt experiments go in depth on some matters and speak of their fears and scars, physically or emotionally. One survivor stated, “I wanted to die. There was a fence near our barracks—a barbed-wire fence—where inmates would commit suicide. I threw myself on the barbed wire, but some women prisoners ran and pulled me off of it” (Lagnado 63). The psychological impact the experimentations had on humans was devastating. Many of the people in Mengele’s experiments either committed suicide or thought about it. His experiments ranged from putting suspicious eye drops into kids eyes to making them march in snowy, freezing weather for days. Leah Stern recalled, “We were so thirsty, we wanted to swallow some of the snow. But the Germans wouldn’t even let us do that,” from her experience in the Death March (Lagnado 91). Once the Russians began to invade, the guards that were still left collected most of the adult inmates and forced them to walk through Poland to Austria and the Mauthausen camp. Unsurprisingly, most of the prisoners died (Lagnado…show more content… Many were frowned upon because people believed that the camp victims let the Nazis and Mengele do all these awful things to them. However, Menashe Lorinczi, another survivor, took years to come up with an answer to people who believed so. Today, when people ask him questions about it and why he didn’t fight back, he simply tells them, “If you don’t have a gun, you have nothing.” What Menashe says is very true, especially to the people experimented on. When someone is in a life-or-death situation, they will most likely do anything asked of them. This was the case with the subjects of the experiment. Since they were scared for their lives, they did almost anything with or without complaint. They will continue to be haunted by these awful experiments for the rest of their lives because they will ever be able to “forget the terror of his laboratory, the blood tests, the injections, the experiments, [and] the murderous operations” (Lagnado
