Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

Have you ever thought about the lengths it would take to be as smart as possible? Well, in the famous “Flowers for Algernon,” written by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordan is the main character who wants to be smart and volunteers for experimental brain surgery. After the surgery, he had better grammar and better spelling, and he also reads grammar books. He works in Donnegans, his co-workers don’t like him that much. They all think he is unintelligent, and he doesn’t deserve to work here. He goes to a hospital daily and he meets with two doctors and a teacher every time. He sees a mouse called Algernon and he becomes best friends with that mouse. Then, Algeron takes the same surgery that Charlie is going to take and then after he takes the surgery

For example we can see this event occures when charlie goes on a walk and then after he forgets where he lives. Charlie writes, “June 19 sometimes at night I got out for a walk, last night I couldn’t remember where I lived.” (Keyes 9) By looking at this quotation, we can see that Charlie is slowling losing his memories because of the surgery. Some may say, however he knew what he was singing up for before he got the surgery. Regardless, Charlie lnew what he was signing up for and still he lost his memories and he can’t get those memories back so the whole surgery was

For example, this situation occurs when he stated “I dont want to go back there because they all knew me when I was smart and maybe they’ll laugh at me”. (Keyes 5) By looking at this evidence we see that Charlie is slowly losing his memories because all his co workers knew him when he was smart and now he isn’t. And his friends weren’t the best so he didn’t want them to see him like this because they would make fun of him. Some may say, his friends made fun of him either way so it wouldn’t matter if he’s unintelligent or