Charlie Gordon's Flowers For Algernon

Have you ever meet someone who has a mental disability? In the story Flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon is a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man who has the opportunity to undergo a surgical procedure that will dramatically increase his mental capabilities. This procedure had already been performed on a laboratory mouse, Algernon, with good results. Charlie will be the first human subject.In a series of progress reports, Charlie documents everything that happens to him. As Charlie's intelligence increases to a higher level, the story told me about the changes from Charlie's view point, but also sees the change in Charlie's writing. This jump in intelligence is not really a good thing, however. Charlie is now able to remember things from the past that shaped his life and realize friendships for what they were.

Finally, because of his increased intelligence, Charlie is able to discover the experiment's fatal flaw the end/ death of him, and the mouse thing.While reading this story I have a personally connection with Charlie because like charlie my grandma has a mental disability so I could kind of relate to charlie.Having a mental disability can sometimes make you unable to notice when people are being mean to you like me personally have seen people take advantage of my grandma so I can see why charlie feels the way he does when you realize people were being mean to him. Charlie had every right to be boujee after he got his brain surgery because he was tired of people acting like he was