Flowers Of Algernon Analysis

Charlie, in Flowers of Algernon, has a very low IQ. Charlie lived with his family when he was younger and his parents saw him as a threat to his sister so they decided to take him somewhere else. He has problems with reading and writing. He wants to be in an experiment where the two people in charge, Nemur and Strauss, have not tried the operation with humans. Charlie wants to be smarter so he can have friends and so he can read and write. He is nice and friendly. Charlie’s conflict with his low IQ teaches the reader to not always think that something is going to go good because it can have consequences at the end through Charlie doing the experiment to see if he can get smarter.

Charlie has a low IQ and he meets a mouse named Algernon that

Charlie does the operation and he feels like he is getting smarter. He is starting to remember things. He can now read, write and he can beat Algernon now. Charlie thought that Nemur and Strauss were smart people. According to Charlie, “But still it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in hands who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers” (Keyes 154). Charlie realized that Nemur and Strauss were phonies and that Charlie is even smarter than them. Things seemed good in the beginning but at the end, things didn’t go as well as he had

Charlie escaped with Algernon and he was starting to notice changes in Algernon’s behavior. Algernon didn’t act the same anymore. With Algernon’s death, Charlie was starting to get ideas of what can happen to him. Charlie was starting to notice things in his writing and when he was reading. According to Charlie, “I’ve got to try to hold onto some of the things I’ve learned. Please, God, don’t take it all away” (Keyes 290). Charlie was starting to forget things that he learned. He would forget how to write and he didn’t know what was the things that he wrote when he was smarter. Charlie finally decides that he is going to go to the Warren Home