Charlie Gordon Flowers For Algernon

Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes is the story of the journey of a man, Charlie Gordon, from the state of mental incapacitation to the state of the most intelligent man in the world and comes back to his original condition in the end.
Charlie Gordon is a thirty-two-year-old man who is suffering from a severe mental weakness with an IQ of 68. During the day time, he works a menial job in the bakery his uncle found for him. However, in weeknights he attends reading and writing classes for the mentally retarded in Beekman College Center. His teacher is a kind woman Alice Kinnian and Charlie falls in loves with her.
Then one day, Charlie gets the opportunity to take part in a surgery that will dramatically improve his intellectual capacity and this surgical procedure was already performed on a laboratory mouse, Algernon with unbelievable results.
The operation ends with successful results as Charlie's intelligence increases to a genius level with IQ 185 and he records everything that happens to him in

Charlie, the protagonist, argues that because “normal” people tend to lament physical disabilities, the disables are regarded “marked” by other people. However, since people with mental illness cannot be recognized by their bodies, but noticed by their performances, people consider mental illness as an inferior type of disability and Charlie challenges this idea. Most of the people around Charlie do not regard him as a human being before he takes the operation because they see intelligence as the spark that ignites humanity or spirit. Thus, it shows the issues of animality and the reason why Charlie identifies so strongly with Algernon. Because Charlie’s mental regression follows Algernon’s intellectual deterioration, Charlie investigates to find the reasons for Algernon’s sudden and rapid loss of intelligence. (Matos,