Flowers For Algernon
Beginning of paper
I read the book by Daniel Keyes. It’s a fiction
book, but with all the advances in modern medicine it could happen. It
takes place over the course of a few months, starting in March and
ending in November. The book shows how society treats retarded people.
It also reminds us that all doctors ....
Middle of paper
.... seem. He also starts to think about romance.
Miss Kinnian, or Alice as he later in the book calls her, is
Charlie’s night school teacher and then a romantic interest and then a
teacher again. She liked the old Charlie, but when he starts becoming
smart she finds it harder and harder to keep up with him. Being with him
makes her feel strange, inadequate at times. She’s almost afraid of him.
She thinks she knows Charlie, but discovers she doesn’t.
The people at the bakery e ....
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Word count: 863
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
