Flowers for Algernon is a book about a mentally challenged man who is thirty seven years old, named Charlie Gordon.Charlie works at factory (Donnegan's Plastic Box Company)where his coworkers make fun of him, but he is unable to comprehend that he is the center of they mockery.Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss give him a chance to have an operation to triple his IQ level which was at sixty eight and he is encouraged by his teacher, Miss Kinnian, to have the operation done.Miss Kinnian teaches at a school for mentally challenged adults.He is told to keep progress reports by Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur so they can see how the operation is working.The story is told by Charlie's progress reports. Along the way he is told to race a white mouse named Algernon in a maze.Algernon had the same op...more >>eration that Charlie was about to have and Algernon played out what was going to happen to Charlie later on after the operation.After the operation Charlie begins to see things from a different point of view and finds out that things aren't the same as he thought they were, as his IQ increases very quickly.Charlie begins to face many problems with his emotions and conflicts are made.After a while Algernon begins to loose his IQ faster then he gained it and eventually leads to Algernon's death.The same happens to Charlie as well.This book tells of a friendship that grew over time between Charlie and Algernon.