I have finished reading my book for book report, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
It is a story of a mentally retarded man named Charlie who undergoes an brain surgery to increase his IQ. His thoughts and experiences are written in the first person style, in a form of diary report. This is the most fascinating part of the book as you can see his writing style becomes more and more sophisticated after the operation. However, as he becomes more intelligent and surpass the levels of intelligence of people around him, such as the university professors and doctors who operated on him he realizes that the artificially created intelligence will decrease by the speed proportioned to its increace. He becomes certain of theory by observing the behavior of a mouse named Algernon which had been operated just like him. After Algernon died, his intelligence also starts to decrease rapidly. In the end he enters Warren. (a mental hospital)
I watched two movies, but they had very different story to each other and the book. The imterpretation of the ending seems to be various...
