the book was written from charlie's, the main character's, point of view. this was definitely the most effective form because it gets into the mind of the test subject, and that's really the only way that you can see the inner changes in him. the changes in his character are more important than the visible changes in his learning ability, and that's what the book basically drives at: science doesn't stand alone. it's always going to impact something else. i liked the perspective that it was put into. i don't think i could have been done better any other way, and it was a mind- and heart-catching point of view. it was an easy one to relate to.
Closure:
the end of this book left me wondering what happens to charlie next. did he die? did he forget how to write? did he ever make it to the institution? his final entry looked just like his first ones did with countless mistakes and points of forgetfulness, as he explains that he's going to go to the institution and live there for the rest of his days, giving everybody a farewell. then it came to a touching close where he writes "P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowers on Algernons grave in the bak yard."
keyes just leaves what happens next to charlie up to the reader, which sometimes tends to bother me because i don't have the brightest of imaginations or i end up imagining the worst, being the optimist that i am. but i suppose there are readers out there that like to have the possibilities that things turned out better than expected.
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