Flowers for Algernon

“Flowers for Algernon” is a novel written by Daniel Keyes and published in 1966. The book received critical acclaim despite some backlash for it’s representation of sexual themes and is still considered one of the classics of the 20th century. It has been adapted a variety of times including television, radio, theater and an Academy-Award winning film named “Charly” in 1968. The plot of the novel revolves around the main character, a thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man named Charlie Gordon. The book is told in an epistolary style through the usage of Charlie’s handwritten “progris riports”.