It's all about the IQ points!!

"Flowers For Algernon" (1959) is a longer short story which has actually been taken from a novel of the same title (and written by the same author).  It is written from the point of view of the main character, Charlie Gordon, who has a mental disability and who undergoes an experiemental surgery to increase his intelligence.  Charlie is asked to keep journal entries through this process, which is the short story.

As we see Charlie's rise and fall from near-genius levels of intelligence, we also see profound changes to Charlie's outlook on society, his emotional understandings and changes to his overall personality. From Charlie's journal entries, we are challenged to look at how we treat people with mental disabilites and how we view the subject of intelligence.

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