In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gordon, has a surgery to make himself smart, but, in the end [it doesn’t even matter], loses all of his knowledge, bringing him back to the way he was before, mentally handicapped. What happened to Charlie may, at first, seem like a tragedy, but, when you see his outlook on what happened, you start to realize that it isn’t so bad afterall. Charlie knows what role he plays in other people’s lives now, and has learned to laugh at himself. In the last entry to his journal, he says, “It’s easy to make friends if you let pepul laff at you.” He even, on a previous page, made a joke about the fact that he isn’t too bright, showing that he is ok with that. He, overall,
