“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” This quote, taken from Plato's, “The Allegory of the Cave”, poses an important rhetorical question, rooted within the short story, “Flowers for Algernon”. This short science fiction story, written by Daniel Keys, is told from the first-person daily entry logs of Charlie Gordon. A hollow man at first, Charlie is plagued with the burden of very low intelligence; he struggles with reading and writing. Eventually, Charlie is enrolled into a lab experiment, in which he will undergo an operation to triple his I.Q. The effects are not immediate; however, we can see Charlie progress through the complexity of his log entries. Several months pass, and Charlie’s
