Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an outside look on how we treat mentally challenged people. When you treat people as you always do, you don't see how mean or how cruel it really may be. It could just be your personality or the way you were brought up. By him writing a story on a mentally challenged person wanting to become smart to be accepted by society, and be able to be seen as a "normal" person, at any length or means, was to show us, the society, how we treat mentally challenged people. He could possibly have seen a mentally challenged person being treated poorly, or perhaps was related to one and wanted to tell the society it was not right, but put it in a way by which it touched people in their own way, depending on how they interpret the story. In the story, there was a point where Charlie was at a party and they got him drunk, and m

ade him dance with a girl. Charlie had never been with a girl before and didn't know what to do. They were!

In the end I think that through the whole story Daniel Keyes was on the "con" side of the whole idea of an operation to get smart and triple your intelligence, it just didn't come out quite to clearly that, that was his opinion on the subject till the end. Maybe Daniel Keyes wants to teach or show us how to treat mentally retarded people in the present and future.

going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus..." I think that where Daniel Keyes point was made because if he (Charlie) had never had the operation, he wouldn't be trying to get away from society, he would have never known what being a "genius" even meant. Daniel Keyes stated in the story, " It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge. It was evil when she saw that she was naked. If not for that none of us would ever have to grow old and sick and die." That is where in his own way Daniel Keyes is saying we shouldn't try and play God , and change human flaw. If Charlie never he was slower then the wouldn't want more intelligent. When Charlie first found out that Algernon's intelligence had started disintegrating, Charlie was trying reall

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