Flowers for Algernon Essay

One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, he came back to the state he orginally was at. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, this intelligence operation was done, and the patient was Charlie Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but experienced loneliness, and physcological distress. Charlie was emotionaly upset because of his flashbacks from childhood, and …

…his job back at the bakery and has forgotten just about everthing he had once known. I suppose in the end he was better off then when he had started. Although he remembers very little of what happened to him, but the people at the bakery now respect him and stick up for him. Not only that but now, instead of being a self-centered, he now cares for others more then he cares for himself.