Two to three percent of the human population on earth is mentally challenged. Charlie Gordon is a thirty-seven year old man who was borderline retarded. His night school teacher, Mrs. Kinnian, recommended Charlie for an operation to increase his IQ three times larger. In “Flowers for Algernon”, a science fiction short story by Daniel Reyes, Charlie Gordon needed to have a trial surgery to raise his IQ, which stands for intelligence quotient, from sixty-eight to two-hundred-four. Before the operation, Charlie had no common sense, he was childlike; afterwards he had sensational emotions. Charlie was a seven year old boy trapped in a thirty-seven year old man's body.
