Character Analysis Of Charlie In Daniel Keyes Flower For Algernon
In Flower for Algernon, Daniel Keyes presents the idea that everyone should treat people the way they want to be treated. In the book Charlie was invited to a party, some people there decided to joke with Charlie and gave him a plastic apple. Charlie ended up taking a bite into the fake apple and when he did everyone was laughing at him, Frank then said “I told ya he’d eat it. C’n you imagine anyone dumb enough to eat wax fruit?” (Keyes 41). This evidence shows that the other adults at the party pranked Charlie into eating something that wasn’t edible because his mind couldn’t process what was happening to him and that fake apple. This also includes them laughing at Charlie and Charlie getting called a name but Charlie doesn’t know what