Charlie Gordon's Operation In Flowers For Algernon

In the novel Flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon learn that “you don’t need to be intelligent to have friends.” Flowers for Algernon is a surety about a middle aged man who had a chance to be smart, but he didn’t know the outcome of the situation. Charlie Gordon should have his operation because he won't get anywhere socially, it is the first time he would see the world for what it is, and after he say the world it put his life in danger.
Charlie shouldn't have gotten that operation because he is just digging a deeper hole for his social life. At first he didn't really know what a true friend really meant shortly after the operation it came soon enough. “It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around