Essay On Flowers For Algernon

The Sci-Fi Fiction Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a 32-year-old man with a mental disability which makes him lack intelligence. His name is Charlie Gordon. In the book Flowers for Algernon , Charlie Gordon want to be intelligent, he wants to fit in with his so-called “friends” like Gimpy and his real friends like Alice. He also wants his sister and his mom to come back to his life. So Charlie goes to his doctor and they test him against a mouse named Algernon that was once like Charlie but he had the operation. The doctors have Charlie and Algernon do a couple maze races in which Charlie loses all of them. From then on Charlie was eager to beat the mouse so he had got the operation done. But the effect took a time for it to be all the way finished. Charlie benefitted a lot off of the operation, he beat Algernon, fell in love, he also understood things way more than he did before, he realized how people treated and how they were disrespectful. Charlie wanted to be like his friends and fit in, but the operation made him way more intelligent than his surroundings, so he took things more complex than others and understood more. After a while, he was told that the operation would wear off, as it did on Algernon which led to Algernon dying. Charlie Gordon should not have gotten the operation that increased his intelligence; although
In the end, he had the same outcome as the beginning, not intelligent at all. The only thing that had changed was him not having as many friends which he had more of when he was not intelligent. Being intelligent for Charlie meant more friends for him, but in reality, it meant he knew way more than the people he wanted to be friends with and he put himself first and his feelings. This led to him being depressed and having thoughts of suicide. Furthermore, this operation this operation was unnecessary and affected Charlie’s life leaving him in