Flowers for Algernon

The book Flowers for Algernon is a great book. It gave me many mixed opinions about the writing style that Daniel Keyes used to write the book. I liked the way he wrote everything in journals. It was a great idea. I didn't like the way he wrote some words that were to hard for Charlie to spell write the right way. They make reading the story harder. On the other hand they were a great way to show Charlie's progressions later on in the story.

The journal format was a great idea. It really helps to get the feel for Charlie. All threw out the story you can see the way he gets smarter by the way he writes in his journals. The whole book is written in journals so you can really see how bad he started of an how much smarter he got.

The way Charlie spelled some words made it hard to read the story. On page 427 the way Charlie spelled Intellek made me