Flowers For Algernon Theme Paragraph

Flowers For Algernon Theme Paragraph In the realistic fiction, Flowers For Algernon, the author, Daniel Keyes, tried to convey the theme that a person shouldn’t change who they are for someone else. Charlie’s relationship with Alice represented this theme because one of the reasons Charlie signed up for the experiment was because he wanted to impress her. He thought if he became smarter, Alice would be proud of him, and he would be able to speak to her about smart-people stuff. Although she was proud of him, when Charlie became highly intelligent, she noticed that he lost his kindness along his path to knowledge and his arrogance took its place, and she soon realized that she no longer wanted to be around Charlie. Also, Charlie wanted to be accepted by his friends and the rest of society. Charlie figured that if he became smarter, his “friends” would be nicer to him, but instead of gaining what he hoped for, he lost everything. He, also, wanted to be able to converse with regular people and not feel inferior, however, Charlie started to make others feel ignorant so they didn’t want to speak with him anymore. Charlie’s desire to impress his mom also represented the message that a person shouldn’t change who they are. He just wanted to prove to his mom that he could be normal like the other kids, but instead, she still believed that he was still a six year old. Also, Charlie just hurt himself when he decided to do the experiment, because he soon found that being intelligent wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. The significance of the theme is that although a person may want to change something about themselves, that person would lose him or herself along the way and hurt the people they love and themselves along the way, so as person shouldn’t change something beyond their power.