Changes in Character to Advance the Plot Wha: does Charlie fear will happen next as the effects
of his surgery reverse?
Why can't I remember? I've got to fight. I lie in bed for
days and I don't know who or where I am. Then it all
comes back to me in a flash. Fugues of amnesia.
Symptoms of sentity-second childhood. I can watch
them coming on. It's so cruelly logical. I learned so much
and so fast. Now my mind is deteriorating rapidly. I won't
let it happen. Il sight it. I can't help thinking of the boy
in the restaurant, the blank expression, the silly smile.
- Flowers for Algernon,"
Dariel Keyes
O He fears he will become like he was and like the
boy in the restaurant.
O He tears he will suddenly die, just like Algernon did.
O He fears that Miss Kinnian will no longer stay
around to help him.
O He fears he will no longer be able to fight for wha:
he believes.
✓ Dono
Stern