Flowers For Algernon Charlie Smart

Everyone, smart or not, always wants to be smarter. In the story “Flowers For Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, this dream became a reality for a man named Charlie. The protagonist Charlie Gordon, was given a procedure that triple his intelligence from an insufficient sixty-eight, to a staggering 204. This came at a horrible cost though, because soon after reaching an IQ of 204, he found out that he would die because of it. Nonetheless, I still believe that Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur were right to give the procedure to Charlie. With an IQ of sixty-eight, Charlie never could become smart like he wanted to. He even stated in his first progress report, “I want to be smart” March 5. After the procedure, he was finally able to accomplish his dream of becoming smart. Even though now, Charlie still doesn’t fit in, he is still much happier than he was before. He even stopped hanging out with Joe and Frank, because now, he was smart enough to figure out they were always just tormenting him. “I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me” April 20. I believe, that even if Charlie still

“I don’t understand why I never noticed how beautiful Miss Kinnian really is” April 28. This shows us how Charlie is starting to actually take in his surroundings, and the surrounding world. This means that he is now able to experience the world in a whole better way now. On the contrary though, he felt lonelier than ever. But he did begin to enjoy everything else ore, including reading, or other activities like the Rorschach test. During the Rorschach test, he even stated,” I imagined all sorts of things. I guess I got carried away” April 22. So even if he did feel lonely, he got to enjoy many things much more, and perhaps he learned that having people around isn’t always necessary. As Charlie becomes smarter, he enjoys many things, much more than