The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an operation to increase his intelligence, but the operation was a failure and Charlie is slow again. He wants to move now so society won’t ridicule him for being slow again. Daniel Keyes wrote this short story for good reasons. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flowers for Angernon" to show people from an …showed first 75 words of 872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 872 total…me." In the end I think that through the whole story Daniel Keyes was on the "con" side of the whole idea of an operation to get smart and triple your intelligence, it just didn’t come out quite to clearly that, that was his opinion on the subject till the end. Maybe Daniel Keyes wants to teach or show us how to treat mentally retarded people in the present and future. Bibliography the book