Flowers for Algernon

Two weeks ago I read a novel by Daniel Keyes called Flowers for Algernon. The story is about a man, Charlie Gordon, who lives in New York, near Central Park. This man has a normal life, with an IQ of 68. Then he meets a doctor, who promises to do a surgery to increase his intelligence. And it works well… too well, indeed. Charlie’s IQ exceeds 220. Then the problems begin for a man who has the highest IQ in the world but who is a child inside his head. He can’t control his emotions. He discovers that the world is not like what he thought, people are scared of him, and others do not like him because of his difference. He doesn’t like this new world, a world of injustice and ignorance. At the end, the only friend he really has is Algernon, the laboratory mouse, which was the object of the experimental treatment before it was applied to Gordon. However, she dies after some months, which explains the title of the book, Flowers for Algernon.