Flowers for Algernon another.
Charles Algernon Parsons.
Charlie feels an affinity for Algernon, and seems to understand him.
Algernon dies, and Charlie goes to visit his mother and sister.
He races Algernon and eventually wins against him, surpassing Algernon in intelligence.
In doing so, Algernon's memory will be kept alive- along with Charlie's.
Charlie and Algernon return to the lab, where Charlie continues his research round-the-clock.
As the days pass, Charlie notices that Algernon begins to regress, and he eventually dies.
At 15, one Charles Algernon Parsons was busy inventing the precursor to the modern automobile.
Like Algernon, I found myself behind the mesh of the cage they had built around me.".
Charlie is taken to a scientific convention in Chicago where he and Algernon are being showcased.
Climax Charlie is
taken to a scientific convention in Chicago where he and Algernon are being showcased.
Like Algernon, I found myself behind the mesh of the cage they had built around me.
Charlie makes sure that Algernon's grave is marked with flowers, because he was no ordinary mouse;
For both Algernon and myself, it would take more time to see if this change would stick.
Rossetti discovered her unconscious and lying in bed after having had dinner with her and his friend Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Meanwhile, Charlie has
developed a sense of kinship with the lab mouse Algernon, who underwent the same procedure that Charlie did.
When he meets Algernon, he learns that Algernon needs to run a maze in order to eat,
and Charlie thinks that is unfair.
The procedure has already worked on a mouse called Algernon, and the doctors are optimistic that it will be successful for Charlie,
too.
Charlie comes to see himself reflected in Algernon, as they are both caught in the cage of this experiment
and not treated as individuals.
He lets Algernon escape from his cage and takes him back to New York City,
where he rents an apartment and lies low for a month.
Finally, at the convention,
he is so upset with how agitated Algernon is that he sets him free
and brings him back to his apartment in New York City.
His final wish is for someone to visit Algernon's grave and leave him flowers,
symbolizing the memory of Charlie's experience, and Algernon's, as a success, even though the experiment failed.
His final wish before going to live at the Warren Home is for someone to put flowers on Algernon's grave,
a symbolic gesture of remembering Algernon's importance, along with Charlie's.
He frees Algernon at a scientific convention in Chicago where they are being showcased and
put on display, and they take off to an apartment Charlie rents in New York City.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a touching story
about a man named Charlie who is chosen for an experiment that offers him the opportunity to become“smart”, his deepest wish in life.
In Flowers for Algernon(1966), a man of low intelligence is
transformed into a genius, only to discover a flaw in the experiment that will see him regress to a far worse situation that he started out in.
The flowers represent Charlie's wish for him and Algernon to be remembered,
Even though the experiment will be deemed a failure, for Charlie and Algernon, it was a unique and special experience, which in Charlie's mind makes it a success.