Flowers for Algernon

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON

This is a touching story about a man who wasn’t smart as everyone else but he tried to learn anyway. Even though he only wanted to be like everybody else he was persistent. He went through an operation only knowing that it would make him smarter. People treated him terribly but he was ignorant and didn’t even understand that he was being made fun of.

As time went on he began to get smarter and smarter as he easily grasped knowledge. His reading and writing skills improved as time passed and he also began to realize he was being made fun of by the people he had thought was his friends. Blind to these things he was no more. He finally realized how dumb he had acted and how he was so mistreated. He could now beat the mouse named Algernon at the race he was doing since the beginning of the project. This mouse becomes his friend in this story and is the reason for this title. All the people at the place he worked began to change in how they looked at him since he had gotten smarter. They acted more frightened of him and did not treat or talk to him the same as before, if they even if they