Charlie Gordon In Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon

“Your accomplishing day and weeks what it takes normal people to do in a lifetime” said Miss Kinnian (Keyes). During Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon is the main character he is a thirty year old man trying to learn how to read and write again, as is his buddy Algernon the mouse. Charlie is doing the experiment with him to see how it will go at to get his test score up. He is also trying to accomplish so much even though his brain will not mentally let him, this is because he is main goal is to become like everyone else. In the story Charlie is realizing that becoming smart is meaning losing some of his friends and family. He has to takes on this adventure during his experiment letting doctors use him to do experiment and