This summer I was instructed to read the book Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. This book is about a 35 year old man named Charlie. He is disabled in the beginning of the book and has a hard time learning and he just does not function properly. He lives in The Warren State Home and goes to special adult classes to learn. His life has a drastic change when he becomes the subject in a new experiment. An experiment designed by Prof Nemur and Dr. Strauss. They believe they could make him smarter through a surgery that was successful on a mouse. In this book Daniel Keyes used a very different writing style, he wrote through the eyes of the main character Charlie. He wrote how Charlie would have been able to at each point of his life. Charlie had points of high intelligence and points of very low intelligence, throughout his life. This was all do to his operation. This writing style was going to allow the reader to see how much the surgery affected the main character Charlie’s IQ and Charlie’s emotions. …show more content…
He has really bad coordination and he forgets how to speak other languages. Also he starts to forget everything that has happened from writing a journal entry to what he ate for breakfast. He loses his relationship with Alice and he just sits at home all day and reads as best he can. Because Daniel Keyes wrote this novel in journal entries you could really tell how upset and frustrated Charlie was. On page 300 Charlie wrote “”Just leave me alone. I’m not myself. I’m falling apart….”” Charlie said this to Alice right before she packed her bags and left. This writing style really let the reader see how much Charlie was struggling and how upset he was about the situation. Sadly Charlie did end up losing all that he learned, he went right back to stage one. He was not smart; and even found himself back in his class at the college. He went back to work at the bakery and lived the rest of his life