Intelligence “Maybe that’s why it was so important for me to learn. I thought it would make people like me. I thought I would have friends. That’s something to laugh at isn’t it?”(Keyes 208-209). The novel, Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, follows a period in Charlie Gordon’s life as he surgically becomes more intelligent and eventually loses much more than he initially started with. People often dream of having …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…change, which causes new unimaginable problems. Charlie received his dream and it had an unbelievable outcome. This dream allowed him to realize the true society he was living in. He may have not had the best of friends or the greatest social life before the operation, but he was happy. And happiness’ is the key to success in life. Be careful of what you wish for, because it may not always be as it seems