![]() Within two months Charlie complains that the doctors in charge of the experiment cannot read Hindustani and Chinese. ![]() Charlie’s early reports are riddled with spelling and grammatical errors a month after the operation, the reports are grammatically correct. Charlie is the first human to receive the operation, though it has been successfully completed on a laboratory mouse, Algernon. Both the short story and the novel consist of a series of progress reports that track Charlie Gordon, a 37-year-old man suffering from mental retardation, through an experimental procedure designed to triple his I.Q. It was expanded into a novel of the same name, which was published in 1966. “Flowers for Algernon,” first published in 1959, is considered a landmark work in both science fiction and disability literature. ![]() Analysis of Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon ![]()
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