Flowers for Algernon | How Flowers for Algernon Works As and Transcends Science Fiction
In the following essay, F. Brett Cox explores how Flowers for Algernon both works as and transcends science fiction, particularly in its exploration of themes of alienation and humanity.
Like Harper Lee and J. D. Salinger Daniel Keyes is an author whose reputation rests on a single remarkable novel. Keyes' Flowers for Algernon, like Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, is a powerful story of alienation, of an individual who is at odds with his society and who struggles to have satisfactory relationships with others. Unlike Lee's and...
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