Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes: Literary Analysis

When I was a sophomore in high school I took an English class called the Human Condition, in this class we read a variety of short stories and had many class discussions about them. Out of all the stories we read one particularly stood out to me and that was an excerpt from a book called Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The story was about the main character Charlie Gordon who only had an IQ of 68 that is until Charlie agrees to become part of a medical study and to have surgery to increase his IQ. After the surgery is successful Charlie starts to become more intelligent, this is exactly what he thought he wanted and was excited for what he thought would be the start to a better life. However throughout the story it become apparent that