Comments on: “Flowers for Algernon”, Daniel Keyes http://www.bloggingthebookshelf.com/2009/11/23/flowers-for-algernon-daniel-keyes/ Blogging my bookshelf - one book at a time Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:46:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shelly Grist http://www.bloggingthebookshelf.com/2009/11/23/flowers-for-algernon-daniel-keyes/comment-page-1/#comment-1414 Shelly Grist Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:50:18 +0000 http://www.bloggingthebookshelf.com/?p=1566#comment-1414 Flowers for Algernon was required reading in my high school American literature class. This story, and the short film The Lottery, were two of the most thought provoking things I studied in high school. Melville (Moby Dick) and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) just pissed me off. I couldn't relate to any of their characters. But Flowers for Algernon really spoke to me - for whatever reason. Flowers for Algernon was required reading in my high school American literature class. This story, and the short film The Lottery, were two of the most thought provoking things I studied in high school. Melville (Moby Dick) and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) just pissed me off. I couldn’t relate to any of their characters.

But Flowers for Algernon really spoke to me – for whatever reason.

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