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My initial impression on Flowers For Algernon was that it is a very touching and mindful story. In my opinion,the author cleverly depicts Charlie's startling progress and eventual decline through the ever-changing sentence structure, spelling, and vocabulary of Charlie's journal entries.
Charlie begins his report on March third, expressing hope that Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur will choose him for an operation capable of raising his IQ to that of a genius. I think that Charlie is good-natured and hard-working, and he wants more than anything to be smart so that he can understand what's happening around him. However, he did not contemplate the fact that life gets more difficult when you are smarter. Charlie only realises this after he became a genius. He faced problems in his social life, such as his relationships with Fay and Alice, his commitments in finding what went wrong for the operation and also his past,which includes meeting his family after a very long time. In addition, when he realises that he was the object of frequent jokes among his friends, he broke down emotionally and decides not to trust anyone. This decision contrasted his old character, one who's very amiable and friendly. Nevertheless, the most critical problem appears to be the fact that his intelligence is temporary. He found out that it will deteriorate soon enough,as what happened to Algernon which led to its death.
Tragically, Charlie's regression proves nearly complete. Unable to bear everyone's pity, Charlie plans to go away to the Warren State Home and Training School. He closes his progress report on November 21st, in the same poor language that he used in the beginning of the story, urging everyone not to feel guilty and reminding his friends to lay some flowers on Algernon's small backyard grave. I believe that it is to honour Algernon's death,for it has gone through everything that he himself has faced.
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