Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 311 pages

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2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
‪12. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover‬

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to remember that not too long ago I—like this boy—had foolishly played the clown.And I had almost forgotten.Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.


May 18, 2019