Charlie Gordon's 'Flowers For Algernon'

Flowers for Algernon Final Essay “... I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience.” -Charlie Gordon. The short story “Flowers for Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes is a 2005 science fiction story that tells of a grown man named Charlie Gordon, who was born with an unusually low IQ. He decides to undergo a surgery to increase his intelligence, but after it is performed, he finds that his life is a lot different from what it was before. Scientists believed that they could increase people’s intelligence through an operation on the brain, and Charlie Gordon is the first human to have that operation performed on him. When greater intelligence is gained, it does not lead to greater happiness. Charlie Gordon finds this is true as he gains intelligence but becomes less happy when his relationships with his coworkers, the scientists, and Alice change. As Charlie’s intelligence increases, he becomes less happy as his relationships with his coworkers change. When Charlie’s coworkers at Donnegan’s Plastic Box Company notice he has changed, they revolt against him with a petition to have him fired of all their names except for one: Fanny Girden. According to Daniel Keyes in the short story “Flowers for Algernon,” “All the
Charlie Gordon finds this is true as he gains intelligence but becomes less happy as his relationships with his coworkers, the scientists, and Alice change. His coworkers notice he has changed significantly when he gains his intelligence and then start to not like him as much, Charlie makes the scientists look bad and loses a piece of them that he never knew he had, and he can’t talk to Alice like a true friend when he keeps making references to things she doesn’t know of and understand. When he loses the parts of those that made him happy, he is left with a lot less happiness than he had before, just because he gained