Flowers For Algernon?

i am writing an essay about Flowers For Algernon for English(Due tmrw). My argument is that Charlies mother, Rose, has a huge impact on how Charlie thinks and acts as an adult. i only have 2 supports; he has problems looking at women sexually, and he is very motivated to become smart.





what is another support?





thanks in advance

Flowers For Algernon?
Awards For Flowers For Algernon





The original short story won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.The expanded novel was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966, tied with Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany,and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967, losing out to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.In the late 1960s, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) decided to give Nebula Awards retroactively and voted for their favourite science fiction stories of the era ending 31 December 1964 (before the Nebula Award was conceived). The short story version of Flowers for Algernon was voted third out of 132 nominees and was published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 in 1970. Keyes was elected the SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000 for making a significant contribution to science fiction and fantasy, primarily as a result of Flowers for Algernon





Support Of Flowers For Algernon





Flowers for Algernon now is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number 47.The reasons for the challenges vary, but usually centre around those parts of the novel where Charlie struggles to understand and express his sexual desires.Many of the challenges have proved unsuccessful, but the book has occasionally been banned from school libraries including some in Pennsylvania and Texas.