“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits,” (Einstein). Some men are born mentally impaired, and intelligence cannot be gained through operations. “Flowers for Algernon” is a story by Daniel Keyes, it is about a thirty-seven year old man that is mentally impaired named Charlie Gordon. He has an operation that triples his I.Q. of sixty-eight, making him one of the smartest men in the world. Sadly though, with every good thing comes a bad thing. In the end, the experiment he went through, there were more costs than benefits. , when something bad happens, we do not want people to feel sorry for us. In the story, Charlie Gordon becomes famous when he is smart, but the fame does not last. At the factory Charlie works at, Joe Carp and Frank Reilly once teased him. They then found out that he got smart, and when people later…show more content… After Charlie Gordon got extremely smart his level of I.Q. was dropping back down. It was like the experiment never happened. When he looked at his progress reports from when he was smart he said, “I was looking at some of my old progress reports and its very funny but I cant read what I wrote. I can make out some of the words but they dont make sense.” (Page 536) Charlie’s spelling keeps on getting worse, just like his intelligence level. He also states, “I’m forgetting things that I learned recently. It seems to be following the classic pattern-the last things learned are the first things forgotten. Or is that the pattern? I’d better look it up again…” (Page 535) Obviously, Charlie keeps on losing his intelligence. He gets less intelligent by the days setting back all of his learning. Learning is hard at older ages, Charlie had his increased extremely fast, but it also decreased at the same rate. Losing what someone learned is upsetting and Charlie did not recognize his own writing costing him his
