Lessons from 'Flowers for Algernon'
I don't know what is worse; to not know what you are and be happy or to become what you've always wanted to be and feel lonely. Flowers for Algernon is one of its kind. Despite having numerous works regarding abnormality and dis-functioning of human brains in the world of literature, I doubt there is any other work as appreciable as this for it not only talks about a person's experience for being different but also addresses other problems and terms, so much more than that. Charlie, the protagonist of the novel, was loved by his mother. More because hed was her son than for what he was. For years, when Charlie failed to prove himself as a normal kid, his mother tried everything she could to make him smarter, to make him feel belonged, in the world of 'normal' people. Before Charlie's sister was born, his mother felt miserable and she blamed herself for what was of Charlie. But when Charlie's sister was born, her mother accepted the fact that ther...