Flowers for Algernon

This book is awesome!!!!!!!! It's about a mentally retarded guy, who is used in an experiment to see if a certain operation can help mentally retarded people with their problems. During the experiment he is asked to write progress reports. That's what the book is, all of his progress reports put together. At the beginning all of his progress reports have tons of spelling and grammar mistakes. As you read you feel like if you were reading a little boy's mind. It all seems so simple, so good and nice. But as his smartness grows, this changes. He no longer has spelling mistakes or anything. He actually starts using very sophisticated words. After all, the experiment seemed to be working very good. He acquired the knowledge many would have acquired in a lifetime in just three months. He actually took over the experiments by observing Algernon. A mouse who had also had the operation. He realized that even though his intellectual side had grown extremely rapid, his personal side hadn't. He still thought like a baby. After a while he noticed that Algernon was having anger attacks and he wouldn't solve the maze puzzles anymore. He would just throw himself against the walls and cuddle up in tight ball all the time. He was slowly going back to being retarded, and one day he just died. Charlie immediately realized that this was to be his fate too. He would go back to being retarded, and then die. So, he did all he could to keep writing his progress reports, until he couldn't do it anymore. After his super increase in IQ, he went back to being retarded. He felt bad for himself at first. But then he lost his memory and was put into a place where they take care of retarded people. Charlie died, but at least at one point in his life he knew that he did something good for science and for human beings.