Algernon

Introduction.
 Flowers for Algernon.

Human beings are supposed to be treated fairly, they deserve all the respect in the world, but what happens when someone undergoes mistreating, and the worst thing is that the person does not know about it? It is certainly difficult for a retarded person to realize about the mistreating especially when there is no support. Not even the family respects the person, neither the ones that are closer to him and they are also considered as part of the family. As it happens in the story, Charlie, the retarded boy that undergoes an experimental surgery to become smarter, has workmates that just make fun of him. The experiment itself shows how the scientists use Charlie and Algernon, the rat, in order to build their careers. The main character just realises about this after the surgery. Life had not been so kind with him and there is when the real problem comes because his friends, scientists and his family never considered him as a human being not even before and neither after the operation.

The bad treats emerge from the beginning of the story at Donner’s Bakery. At first, Charlie is happy with the relationship he has with the people there, he thinks he has real and true friends. Yet we see that they not only mistreat him but they also take pleasure in it. As time goes on and Charlie becomes little by little smarter he notices that his workmates aren’t really his friends but they also use him to feel better about themselves as he says “"I never knew before that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around just to make fun of me. Now I know what they mean when they say 'to pull a Charlie Gordon.' I'm ashamed." and when he tried to get back to the bakery the workers only resent him and join forces to get him fired.

The experiment by itself shows the primary interest that scientist have on become the pioneers of this new kind of acquired intelligence. It is proved in the book when Charlie and Algernon are the main...