In the book Flowers for Algernon , Keyes tells the progressive story of man with learning disabilities, undergoing to surgery to become an intelligent man. Keyes crafts a story that tells the role intelligence has in society. He implicitly says that intelligence while being a good thing, can also sometimes be the one thing that can harm us. Ignorance is bliss in his opinion, and not knowing everything is sometimes more beneficial than we think it is. Questioning the things that are never questioned can the be key to the betterment of humans, and
In the book Flowers for Algernon , Keyes tells the progressive story of man with learning disabilities, undergoing to surgery to become an intelligent man. Keyes crafts a story that tells the role intelligence has in society. He implicitly says that intelligence while being a good thing, can also sometimes be the one thing that can harm us. Ignorance is bliss in his opinion, and not knowing everything is sometimes more beneficial than we think it is. Questioning the things that are never questioned can the be key to the betterment of humans, and