Flowers For Algernon Rhetorical Analysis

“Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on” (Keyes 1). In Flowers for Algernon, the intelligent Charlie connects with the old Charlie. This story is told in first person narration, revealing Charlie’s inner thoughts and feelings. Charlie’s telling the story in first person, helps the audience understand his flashbacks. Different situations from the present trigger Charlie’s flashbacks. Every flashbacks helps him understand what is going on with the intelligent Charlie. The reader draws a first hand account of how his intelligence, get a close up of how his intelligence changes throughout the story. He didn’t remember much about his earlier life, but after the experiment he began …show more content…
It gives them a better understanding of how the person feel,and his/her inner thoughts. At the beginning of the story, Charlie could not understand what was going on around him. He was just another student in Miss Kinnian’s class, that was mentally retarded. “They were all around in a circle watching and laughing at the way we were doing the steps. they laughed harder every time I fell, and I was laughing too because it was so funny, But the last time it happened I didn’t laugh. I picked myself up and Joe pushed me down again” (Keyes 41). Charlie thought his co-workers were his friends, but after the experiment he learns that they were making fun of him. “I’m not asking you to be my friends, or have anything to do with me. Just let me keep my job. Mr.Donner says it’s up to you” (Keyes 106). He worked at the Mr.Donner bakery and he fired Charlie because Gimpy and Joe were intimidated by Charlie, they did not understand why he had changed so much. Joe said, “I haven’t laughed so much since we sent him around the corner to see if it was raining that night we ditched him at Halloran’s” (Keyes 41). After Joe reveals his true nature, it makes Charlie haves a flashback of when he was a kid and played hide-and-go-seek and he was it. He went looking for the other kids until it got cold and …show more content…
At the convention in Chicago Charlie gets upset with Dr.Strauss and Nemur because they do not know how to read Hindu. “To hear him admit that both of them were ignorant of whole areas in their own fields was terrifying. "What languages do you know?" I asked him” (Keyes 149). Charlie feels like he can talk down on other people because he was more intelligent than them. This is where Charlie’s past affects his present actions. He thinks people are making fun of him and do not want to be around because he is dumb. That is not the case his friends do not want to be around him because he has got mad and acts like he does not about anybody else feelings. As stated before, Glimpy and the other guys are afraid of the intelligent Charlie because he is more intelligent than them. “As I came out his office, Frank Reilly and Joe Carp walked by me, and I knew what he had said was true. Having me around to look at was too much for them. I made them all uncomfortable” (Keyes