Human Relationships In Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon is a book by Daniel Keyes. This is about a mentally retarded guy named Charlie Gordon. He is given surgery to try and become smarter. He takes a bunch of different tests before they actually do the surgery. His teacher Ms. Kinnian, from his school for retarded adults recommended him for this testing. After the surgery he started to get smarter and then had some complications.
The quote from the novel “The mind in absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can lead to only violence and pain.” Can apply to Charlie’s life. Charlie’s life is much different from most people’s because he is mentally retarded. People always treated him differently, for example some people in the bakery he worked in made fun of him and tried to get him to do stuff you would not normally do. Charlie does not realize that people treat him differently. He is okay with how his mind works and how he is, but does not realize how other people are not. Human nature now, it is normal to judge someone or put someone out differently than people who are like everyone else. The people who are different do not always realize that someone is judging them, or making fun of them. People who are different could think that people talking to …show more content…
Charlie starts to understand that he is just an experiment and does not like how he is being recognized as an experiment not a human. Charlie then realizes that he is now smarter than the doctors and chooses to set Algernon free while they are on stage at the convention. He goes back to New York and hides from the doctors. He decides to go back to the lab to do his own work, and watches Algernon start to lose his intelligence. He starts to fear that this will happen to him also. Soon after Algernon dies. He finds what is wrong with the doctors operation and realizes he will become retarded again