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M i not the LAST!? Rite.. so basically i feel thAT flowers is a pretty good read and it really makes me reflect and think about this central question present in the short story. Is intelligence the downfall of man?

what is also interesting of the change of point of view when charlie changes from a retard to an intellectual superior.
as charlie became smarter, he grew more and more self centred and aloof, and also viewed many people whom he thought as smart once e.g. the professors with what is known as through a superiority complex. This made people slowly starting to shun him and he himself meets with a lot of problems and feels frustrated at this "complex" world he is living in. On the other hand, when he had a low IQ, or was a retard, he appeared to have more friends, or at least from his point of view. Even though as a reader, we know that many of his so called friends at the beginning of the story most probably treated him as a laughing joke, but through his eyes, the world he sees is a simple world with innocence and happiness, like a fairytale.

On the author's writing style, the diary form that this story is written in is extremly effective as it enables the author to express charlie's thoughts in a way he would otherwise be unable to, except through the arkwardness of dialouge between intellectual unequals.

Besides the main questions, this story made me ponder on several other questions, namely, his charlie's only true friend Algernon? Or maybe whether charlie is used my everyone in a way or another except by Ms Kinnian? I'm still thinking for answers for these questions so lets all ponder together ... =)))