Author's Purpose
Daniel Keyes was born in New York in 1927. He received his Bachelor’s Degree for Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1950. He soon began working on comics for Journeys into Unknown Worlds. He developed a paragraph called “Brainstorm”, this was the start of his novel “Flowers for Algernon.” Keyes was always writing science fictions stories and wondered what would happen if a person's intelligence was increased. He said later in his memoir “Algernon, Charlie and I” “education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.” Its no surprise Keyes would write a book about something like this. With his job and average wondering he created the situation between Algernon and Charlie. To me that's why the theme is what it is. He worked with science and used just the facts. He also studied Psych, so he would understand and be able to predict how Charlie would feel.