FREE ESSAY ON FLOWERS FO ALGERNON

FLOWERS FO ALGERNON

Flowers for Algernon
This book was very confusing in the beggining.BeforeI read a book I usally skim Through
it real fast.When I skimmed through this one,I saw a whole bunch of spellingerrors,and it
didn't have a summary on the back of the bookto tell you what it's about.
I soon learned it was about a retarded adult namedCharlie Gordon,writing to his doctor,Dr
Stauss.Dr.Stauss is experimenting on him to make him be smarter.Charlie works at
bakery,as a janitor.He thinks he has alot of freinds their,butthey really are just making
fun of him.Charlie just doesn't know.He hopes to be smart some day,just like the other
kids,so he doesn't hesitate for a moment to cooperatein a radical experiment to increase
his intellegence.
Algernon is a mouse that Charlie is amazed at the 
tasks he can perform.He is also very supersticious.
As days go by,Charlie starts to make more and morecorrections in his writing.He also gets
more mad at Algernon,because he keeps beating Charlie in all the tests.He later starts to
notice how beatiful Alice
Kinnian is.He can't get her off his mind.She likes 
Charlie.
May 20th,he got fired from his job,but the Welberg Foundation has begunpaying him a
salary out of grant so he doesn't have to go looking for a job.His sister isn't very nice
to him.
His qoute,Listen,the best of them have been smug and patronizing-using me to make
themselves superior and secure in their own limitations.Anyone can feel intelligent
besides a moron.
October 5th was the day when Charlie snapped.He told Dr.Stauss he didn't want to take
these tests anymore.He even ripped apart the white binder with alot of information.The
tests made him so much smarter,now he's loosing it.He starts making more errors in his
writing.He lost alot of his knowledge.Algernon died at the end of the story.