The book Flowers for Algernon takes place in the United States of America in the city of New York. A good deal of this book takes place in Professor Nemur's lab. The reason much of the story takes place here is because it is the place where the experiments take place. The rest of the story happens in multiple places. Charlie's apartment is one consistently visited setting. Donner's Bakery, where Charlie works, is another.
             This book features many colorful characters, the main one being Charlie. His full name is Charles Gordon. He is 32 years old and is the subject of an experiment. Part of his job in the experiment is to write down progress reports and a good portion of the book is made up by these reports. Another one of the main characters in the story is Professor Nemur, the man who is running the experiment. Charlie has mixed feelings about the Professor because some of the tests confuse him. The title character, surprisingly, is a mouse. Algernon has already had the experiment done on him. Charlie had to race Algernon through a maze on various occasions throughout the story in order to see how he is progressing. The rest of the characters aren't in the story as often but are still important. Alice Kinnian is a teacher at Beekman College where Charlie writes his compositions. Fay is Charlie's neighbor and an artist.
             Basically, the book is in most parts a series of progress reports. At the very beginning of the story Charlie is obviously mentally challenged. He has many spelling mistakes and doesn't always make sense. He would often get frustrated with the test Professor Nemur told him he had to take, especially the one he had to pass to make him eligible for the experiment. He soon passed the test and was eligible. A short while after this we meet Algernon for the first time. Charlie has to go against him in a maze and seems to always lose, which makes him angry at first but he realizes he is st...