Compare And Contrast Flowers For Algernon

“Flowers For Algernon,” “A Speckled Band,” and “A Retrieved Reformation,” all have aspects in common, but they also have differences. In both “Flowers For Algernon” and “A Retrieved Reformation,” the main characters want to change themselves for the better. Charlie wants to become smarter and Jimmy Valentine wants to live a “legitimate” life, free of crime. Although, in “Flowers For Algernon,” Charlie ends up unsuccessful in changing himself, since he became smart, but later became less intelligent at the same rate of his IQ growth. Similarly, in “Flowers For Algernon” and “A Speckled Band,” they both included animal characters. In “Flowers For Algernon,” they had a pet mouse, Algernon, who is used as one of the experiment subjects to become