Flowers for algernon 4
Flowers for algernon 4FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON SUPPLEMENTARY BOOK REVIEW
The book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel written by Daniel Keyes. The main characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved
in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at
the special education faculty at Beekman College who taught Charlie how to
read and write, the professors who performed the experiment on Charlie,
Fay, one of Charlie's aquaintances which he meets as the book progresses,
and last but not least Algernon.
The novel is exciting and contains very original material. The moods
which are created in the reader, being me, are ones of sorrow, anger, and
guilt. One of the elements of the story which contributes greatly to the
mood the reader experiences would be the plot. In the story, Charlie, is
subject to an experiment which increases his intelligence in hopes of
knowing more in the soul purpose of impressing people to gain friends.
Unfortunately some of his anticipations were not met.
The main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice, Algernon, and
Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes
believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in
trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans.
Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining
friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which
could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to this human
experiment with the hopes of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining
friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes
mentally, and instead of making him gain friends he actually is looked on
in the same way if not worse. For example, at Charlie's old work his
"friends" made fun of him and enjoyed his company just because Charlie had
amused them. Yet after the operation, Charlie discovers that he had not
made his friends like him more, but in actual fact, had pushed them away.
Charlie understood now that his friends had done to him in the past, and
starts to look down upon them. Alice,...
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