Flowers for Algernon is narrated through a series of first-hand progress reports which are to show his challenges between mental and emotional development of Charlie Gordon who is the books main character. Charlie Gordon is a mentally retarded young man who is recommended to become the first human test-subject for a brain experiment. The Author Daniel Keyes portrays Charlie’s startling progress then later decline through the ever-changing vocabulary, spelling and sentence structure through the hand-written progress reports. This book shows the amazing passion of a man’s inner journey from going to a world of Adult Retardation where he knew nothing and was incoherent to things happening to him to a highly intelligence man. Charlie Gordon who is the books main character live through the world of emotions while trying to find his place in the world now.
This book is an amazing touching story. Flowers for Algernon will drag you through a rollercoaster of events and heart breaking realities. Charlie Gordon is changed and ripped apart through the book from finding out how people really treated him, and what they really thought of him when he was a mental Retarded "nobody". Charlie is a kind sweet hearted man at the beginning with no worries in the world. Going through the operation he turns into a egotistic, heatless, over barring man that everyone feels inferior of. Charlie's down fall at the end of the book is a tear jerker. This book will leave you sitting on the edge of you seat, biting your nails. You will never be able to set this book down until' you read the very last page. You will feel as if you are in Charlie's head and can feel his pain, emotion, and tremendous fear of the world around him. This book will seize to amaze you!
This book is an amazing touching story. Flowers for Algernon will drag you through a rollercoaster of events and heart breaking realities. Charlie Gordon is changed and ripped apart through the book from finding out how people really treated him, and what they really thought of him when he was a mental Retarded "nobody". Charlie is a kind sweet hearted man at the beginning with no worries in the world. Going through the operation he turns into a egotistic, heatless, over barring man that everyone feels inferior of. Charlie's down fall at the end of the book is a tear jerker. This book will leave you sitting on the edge of you seat, biting your nails. You will never be able to set this book down until' you read the very last page. You will feel as if you are in Charlie's head and can feel his pain, emotion, and tremendous fear of the world around him. This book will seize to amaze you!