Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon: Situational Irony 1 key example

Progress Report 7
Explanation and Analysis—Lots of Frends:

In the experiment's early stages, Charlie writes about his expectations for friendship and shares what Professor Nemur has told him about keeping progress reports. This passage, which is full of both situational irony and foreshadowing, reveals Charlie’s tragically mistaken hope that intelligence will solve his loneliness:

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time. Prof Nemur says its ok to tell about all the things that happin to me in the progress reports but he says I shoud rite more about what I feel and what I think and remembir about the past. I tolld him I dont know how to think or remembir and he said just try.