Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is an inspiring novel about a middle aged man's dream to be like any normal person. Charlie Gordan, protagonists in the novel, spent the majority of his life working in a bakery for a family friend. Growing up, the bakery was his second home and it was all he knew. Then, Charlie's life changes drastically when he is selected to take part in a brand new scientific experiment which has never tested on humans before. The experiment makes his intellectual skills higher than the scientists who had designed the experiment. Although his dream has come true, Charlie starts realizing the true outcome of the experiment. He started becoming distant to the people that had once been so close to him and starts to unravel the truth about his life before the experiment. At the peek of his achievements, Charlie's life starts becoming more and more complex. He starts learning about adult things such as the value of money, women, and how scary the big world actually is. Join Charlie on his complex adventure of discovering his untold past, developing skills he never dreamed he would have, and befriending a mouse he once hated; Algernon.
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is an inspiring novel about a middle aged man's dream to be like any normal person. Charlie Gordan, protagonists in the novel, spent the majority of his life working in a bakery for a family friend. Growing up, the bakery was his second home and it was all he knew. Then, Charlie's life changes drastically when he is selected to take part in a brand new scientific experiment which has never tested on humans before. The experiment makes his intellectual skills higher than the scientists who had designed the experiment. Although his dream has come true, Charlie starts realizing the true outcome of the experiment. He started becoming distant to the people that had once been so close to him and starts to unravel the truth about his life before the experiment. At the peek of his achievements, Charlie's life starts becoming more and more complex. He starts learning about adult things such as the value of money, women, and how scary the big world actually is. Join Charlie on his complex adventure of discovering his untold past, developing skills he never dreamed he would have, and befriending a mouse he once hated; Algernon.