Flowers For Algernon Quotes

The majority of people assume that a surgery that would cost thousands of dollars would be beneficial but in the Flowers of Algernon, written by Daniel not everything goes as planned. Daniel’s story Flowers for Algernon is about a man named Charlie Gordon who is a 37 years old. He has multiple problems with brain. He is very nice and thinks all his friends like him. He goes to a hospital every week to visit a doctor named Ms.Kinnamon to help him read, write and spell better. Charlie was one day brought in the hospital to race a smart mouse named Algernon. Algeron would also beat him in the race until he finally practiced enough to beat him. He worked at a factory and would clean for a living. Charlie liked his peers and his work but in reality they were all making fun of him. The doctors at the hospital wanted to do surgery on his brain to help him with his disabilities and he ended up doing it, but they were many side effects; Forgetting how to read and write well, heavy depression and realizing reality.

This quote demonstrates how he lost a ton of old knowledge and is unable to write a full proper sentence. He had the surgery to become smarter instead it made his less smart and knowledgeable. Charlie made so much progress and he worked for dozens of hours working on becoming a better reader/writer and that all went down the