Dear Mrs. Reed, the book I read today was Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The book was absolutely amazing! It was a very emotional and inspiring book about a retarded adult, Charlie Gordon, and how he developed literacy and basic learning skills through a new experiment.
What I thought about the story was that it was brilliant. I loved experiencing the same adventure as Charlie through his point of view. As a reader I got to learn more about his family and history and it was fantastic how the author put that in the story.
It was sad though at the end how he lost grip of intelligence and had to go back to a Warren home for retarded adults. During the part where Charlie knew he was going back to what he used to be, it made a reader think of all the different possible endings.
For me I thought that the whole part of him being smart was just a dream and he woke up in Strauss's lab and they realized that he was only smart in his dreams rather than in real life. Or that it was all real and he died at the end just like Algernon. My imagination for the ending went crazy for this particular book because the character developed so much in such a short period of time that he could have developed growing up. It was also very emotional for it all to go by. I'd say that this is one of my all time favorite books and it is a must read for readers of all ages.
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