Flowers for Algernon News Updates

""Flowers for Algernon" follows the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who is the first human test subject in an experimental surgery that artificially increases intelligence. After seeing his IQ go from 68 to 185 following the surgery, Charlie loses the ability to socialize normally and becomes alienated from those around him. As Charlie begins to learn the truth behind the effects of the surgery — as seen through the reaction of a mouse test subject named Algernon — he is struck with the weight of how this procedure may ruin is life. "