In the book flowers for algernon there are many themes based on charlie gordon, but the main theme mentioned throughout the story is that you should never judge someone for who they really are. Before charlie's operation his ‘’friends’’ would always make fun of him and he thought they were just making jokes and laughing with him not at him. For example on page 120 Charlie says ‘’ Joe Carp said I should show the ladies how i clean and mop out the toilets in the factory, then everyone laughed’’After Charlie has the operation, he thinks that his life will be better, and he believes he will have better and more friends but he realized the exact opposite. What happened to him was that he found out that all along he was being laughed at by his ´´friends´´
