For me, I had every treatment that my grandma could think of to make me try to walk or use my hands. For example, when his mother seeks for a cure to his mental retardation, I also had a similar instant in my life. Although I am not a genius and I was raise in a loving family, the flashbacks of Charlie's parents is so real to me. As the experiment becomes more successful, he starts losing himself. He is no longer the happy go lucky guy that used to mopped floors in the bakery.
As Charlie gets smarter and smarter, he is treated differently and his attitude becomes more pompous as he learns more and more. I really don't think when Daniel Keyes was writing this book, he was going for the science fiction genre, but more how society treat people differently base on their mental status. I could had had been mentally retarded, but by mother nature, my disability is different than his. It made me sad as I kept reading "Flowers for Algernon." I'm roughly the same age as Charlie and also was born with a disability.
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