Can You Tell Me About The Book Flowers For Algernon?

The book Flowers for Algernon is a novel (short story originally, film, musical and stage show) by the American author Daniel Keyes who wrote about an undereducated boy with a 'haunted' look that he once met.

In the story, Charlie is a man of low intelligence doing menial jobs in a bakery, where people make fun of his low intellect and poke fun at it him and call him names.  He takes some basic remedial educational classes (he's smart enough to know education is good), where he really enjoys being taught.

Charlie takes part in an experiment to see if people can become smarter.  He allows scientists to use him for their tests and the book is really his notes and journal for that time.  Most of the time, he is competing against another experimenter, a small white mouse named Algernon.  I won't spoil the rest of the story.

The story is taught in almost all countries in the world in schools.
It questioned notions of intelligence, social skills, and the ethical dilemma and problems related to scientific experiments on animals.