In order to write a story, an author must be aware and include all aspects of the world he/she is constructing for the reader to imagine. In the novel, Flower for Algernon, the bakery setting was very significant to the protagonist, Charlie Gordon because it gave him a sense of belonging and a family he never had a chance to be apart of. "Those people—for all these years—were my family. It was like being thrown out of my own home” (Keyes 110). This quotation was said by Charlie after being fired from his job of seventeen years. Family members are the only people what will always stand by you through your best and worse. There is nothing more powerful than the love and support from family. Charlie identifies his co-workers as his family, although