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Flowers for Algernon is a story about Charlie Gordon, a 32-year-old man with an intellectual disability who undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. Told through his own progress reports, the narrative documents his transformation into a genius, his struggles with social and emotional development, and the tragic realization that his enhanced intelligence is temporary. The story mirrors the experience of a mouse named Algernon, who was the first subject of the same procedure and whose own decline foreshadows Charlie's.