“Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year.” (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Charlie Gordon is just one of these kinds of people in a book called Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. In the story, Charlie wants to become smarter and he undergoes a surgery that makes him more intelligent however, this intelligence ends up decreasing over a period of time. For some time, he gets to see the world through a geniuses eyes and he realizes many things that happen in the world around him. Charlie Gordon's experience with his artificial intelligence was a positive experience. Charlie Gordon now understands the world and people around him as a result of his operation. In a restaurant,
