Flowers For Algernon 2

Part I of Essay
I read the book Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It’s a fiction book, but with all the advances in modern medicine it could happen. It takes place over the course of a few months, starting in March and ending in November. The book shows how society treats reta ....

Part II of Essay
.... Kinnian, or Alice as he later in the book calls her, is Charlie’s night school teacher and then a romantic interest and then a teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him. She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t. The people at the bakery employed the retarded Charlie for years. While working there, they stood up for him somet ....