Flowers For Algernon Maze. Algernon is literally a rat who runs in a maze but we must also consider that as charlie s intelligence increases he too becomes another individual caught in the human rat race in the maze of life. Although it is a literal maze it is also a symbol for life.
He is thirty two years old has a menial job at. Algernon s maze symbol timeline in flowers for algernon the timeline below shows where the symbol algernon s maze appears in flowers for algernon. Progris riport 1 martch 3 in his first progris riport charlie has an iq of sixty eight and is a poor speller.
Algernon is literally a rat who runs in a maze but we must also consider that as charlie s intelligence increases he too becomes another individual caught in the human rat race in the maze of life.
Swbat analyze a narrative device to determine author s purpose in the story flowers for algernon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twists and turns like all kinds of walls and they gave me a pencil and a paper with lines and lots of boxes. This competition isn t just for fun but will also enable students to sympathize with charlie s frustrations in the story flowers for algernon. This is the version we watched in class after reading the abridged version of.
