Flowers for Algernon Opinion Essay In the book/movie Flowers for Algernon one of the so called main characters is a white mouse named Algernon. Algernon had been given an operation, the same as Charley, to make him a very smart mouse. After the effects of the surgery started to wear off Algernon died. Luckily Charley didn’t die. But using animals in medical experiments puts them in danger. Each year over one hundred million animals including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys fish and birds, are killed in just U.S. laboratories alone. The most common laboratory animals are mice and rats, which are bred just for lab work. With that many animals being killed each year they should be more careful. Although in
