Thanks for a moment about what the most important word in flowers for Algernon might be. brainstorm a list in the box below. after you have made your list, circle the word you think is most important of all.

it translates into:

read the letter of your pen pal. write and answer 3 questions.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.