“Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes the main character Charlie Gordon is a member of an experiment in which they first tested a brain surgery on a mouse named Algernon, they found out that it worked and made Algernon smarter, so they tested the surgery on Charlie the patient. The experiment was successful and then after a couple of weeks he was excited on being on the edge of getting smart, but then one day Algernon stopped eating and died, Charlie and had done research and figured out that his intelligence was gonna fade away just like Algernon’s did and he would also die sooner. Charlie was passionate about Mrs. Kinnian he fell in love with her and Mrs. Kinnian soon figured out that Charlie liked her because she read his diary/journal they then went on a date together at a restaurant it went well for the two of them. Charlie was Mrs. Kinnians best student, she said that he was smarter than the other adults to which Mrs. Kinnian recommended Charlie to get the experimental surgery but Dr. Strauss didn’t want to do it until Dr. Nemur and …show more content…
I think i failed it.” (Keyes 222), though he still didn’t pass the tests Mrs. Kinnian still recommended the doctors to do the experiment on him, the experiment was successful and after the experiment was done on him, Charlie became smarter and everyone started to treat him differently because he used to always be dumb, now everyone was ignoring him. He didn 't have a lot of friends because nobody wanted to talk to him and so he became confused. His so called friends Joe and Frank didn’t talk to him either, they also stopped making fun of him the quote is I can’t help thinking of the boy in the restaurant, the blank. The next day when he went to work they said that he was fired by a petition that was up to get him