How Does Charlie Change In Flowers For Algernon

Daniel Keyes Fictional story “ Flowers for Algernon” takes place in New York. Charlie faces many problems because of his lack of intelligence. Almost all of the people at Charlie's work fun of him, without him realizing that they were being mean to him. Then Charlie gets a operation to increase his intelligence but it’s a different outcome than expected. Charlie having the IQ of 68 had to go through many different tests like a Roshaw test, multiple IQ test, even racing a mouse named Algernon. This was all to monitor his progress on getting smarter. As Charlie motor activity decreases, increase in forgetfulness, and the decrease of intelligence Charlie learns that he will lose all of what he got. Charlie doesn't really accept what happened to him at first but then he realizes that it's no use. In the story “ Flowers for Algernon” the author is trying …show more content…
This shows that Charlie really want to be smart and that nothing will get in the way of that. When you want something so bad you will accept it because you knew what you we're getting into and agreed do. As for Charlie he realizes at the end that sometimes change is good and bad and that you have to like it no matter what it is.“ Why can’t I remember? I’ve got to fight.” Said Charlie on july 21.This explains why Charlie isn't accepting of his loss in intelligence. Proving that once you have something that's better that you're used to you want to hold on to it. The only problem with that is that things change all the time and you can't hold on to everything. This connects to Flowers because Charlie didn't want to lose anything that he had.This reinstates that with change whether it's good or bad you have to accept it because that was the way it was meant to be and you can't change