Patel 1 Mrs. Pavone Grade 8 English, Period 8/9 June 1, 2016 Essay Number 1 Intelligence is the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations. (Merriam-Webster). Charlie Gordon and his life were an inspiring but tragic story. Throughout the excerpt from Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, the main character goes through many emotional and physical changes. Charlie changes a lot as a person in the three parts. In this story, Charlie wants to become smart and so he agrees to go through a surgery to increase his intelligence. At the end of the story, Charlie becomes smarter and can understand more things around him. He also starts to lose his friends, and his job as well. Not long after the surgery, Charlie’s intelligence began to regress and he goes back to his old self. The story goes from inspiring, since he wanted to be smart, to tragic since he is going back to not be smart again. Charlie Gordon always wanted to become a smart person. When he was recommended by
