Foreshadowing In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

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Foreshadowing is a way for writers to hint what will happen later in the story or novel. In Daniel Keyes’ novel, Flowers for Algernon, the method of foreshadowing is used efficiently by different minor characters. In the novel, the protagonist named Charlie has learning disabilities. He met a mouse named Algernon. It foreshadows Charlie’s future because it has the same experience as him. Charlie had a surgery to artificially increase his intelligence, but his high intelligence has negatively affected his relationship with other people. At the end of the story, Charlie turns back into the old Charlie who has learning disability. Some of the people who know Charlie in the story do not agree with what Charlie did, which is artificially