In the short story Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gordon, learned intellectual lessons, and life lessons. After the operation, Charlie is using a lot of punctuation, but it is all in the wrong place. To correct that, “I read the grammar book last night, and it explanes the whole thing.”(192) Charlie is an amazing self learner, and he is very motivated. It is amazing to read a whole grammar book AND retain all of the knowledge. Now that he is smart, Charlie is beginning to see the true colors of his “friends”, “no one I’ve ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.”(199) Poor Charlie, I would be really sad if that kind of thing happened to me. Charlie retained very few lessons, they were equal between
