Does Algernon die in 'Flowers for Algernon'?

Answer 1

In the sense that his IQ plummets to even lower than it was previously. But he does not physically die, rather checks himself into the Warren State Home so that he doesn't have to endure anyone's pity.

what happens is he still goes to his job and everything he just is going to die sooner or later i like being annoying but that answers it though

Answer 2

Charlie as a little boy had had a crush on Harriet. He wanted to give her a locket he had. He asked some of the boys to help him write a sweet little love note to her. They instead wrote something crude on it, knowing that Charlie wouldn't be able to tell.

When he gave her the locket, she showed the note to her brothers, and they beat him up, believing he had wrote it.

Answer 3

Algernon did die in the story. Probably because he became too smart and his mind soon after deteriorated that he couldn't take it anymore.

If I remember correctly, he starved himself to death. Burt's (?) theory was that Algernon knew what was happening to him on some level and decided that he would rather die than go back to being some dumb (if not dumber) mouse.

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Scott0129: not really, Burt was force feeding him, until Algernon died, not from starvation, but from from his brain slowly started to become dumber, dumber and dumber until he forgot how to do EVERYTHING (including eating and breathing) and he died.

pretty sad book if you ask me

Yes, Algernon did die in the story. This is because when Charlie was dancing at the party, some beer fell on the table, and Algernon drank it! So sad.

Answer 4

He worked at Donnegan's Plastic Box factory and he also got paid by the lab experimenting on him

Answer 5

His friends wanted him fired they all signed a petition. His friends were scared and annoyed by his rapidly increased intelligence.

Answer 6

at the end of the story