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A review by grahamclements
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5.0
I already knew how it ended, but still enjoyed it very much. A real emotional ride as the main character's emotional intelligence tries to catch up to his increasing IQ. It is an interesting take on the discussion of disability, is it pushing the medical model of disability, with a disability something to be fixed, or the society model of disability, where society is the disabler, or both? It also makes the reader think about the effect on a person of fixing that disabilty. It very much humanises a mental disability.
Merged review:
I already knew how it ended, but still enjoyed it very much. A real emotional ride as the main character's emotional intelligence tries to catch up to his increasing IQ. It is an interesting take on the discussion of disability, is it pushing the medical model of disability, with a disability something to be fixed, or the society model of disability, where society is the disabler, or both? It also makes the reader think about the effect on a person of fixing that disabilty. It very much humanises a mental disability.
Merged review:
I already knew how it ended, but still enjoyed it very much. A real emotional ride as the main character's emotional intelligence tries to catch up to his increasing IQ. It is an interesting take on the discussion of disability, is it pushing the medical model of disability, with a disability something to be fixed, or the society model of disability, where society is the disabler, or both? It also makes the reader think about the effect on a person of fixing that disabilty. It very much humanises a mental disability.