Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is about a 37 year old man who doesn’t have as much intelligence as the person sitting beside you. Charlie Gordon, the man’s name, is given the opportunity to have an operation to make him smarter than he ever was. He has to write down progress reports and do this consistently so that the doctors can look at his progress. Over the period of the story, Charlie improves in his punctuation, spelling, grammar, capitalization, and more just by learning with tapes, tests, and the operation.
The conflict in this selection is that Charlie wants to become smart, but once he is where he wants to be, he is too smart for anyone, even the doctors, to understand him. As Charlie moves along in his progress, he decides