Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, is a science fiction novel in which Charlie Gordon is given a surgery to artificially increase his intelligence. After the surgery, Charlie keeps remembering more and more memories about his mother, Rose, his father, Matt, and his sister, Norma. Rose's influences took a long term, negative effect on Charlie. Rose always taught Charlie that intimacy is a bad thing, and if he has intimacy with a woman, that he will get punished. When Rose gave up on Charlie, she just rejected him with negative comments and ignored Charlie. Charlie was always motivated by the way Norma stood up to Rose. As one could see, if Charlie would have been a "normal" child, his mother would have loved him, instead of rejecting him.
             Whenever the topic of intimacy was brought up, Charlie was always getting yelled at by Rose. Even when Norma was just born, she started yelling at Charlie for picking Norma up and holding her. "But then mom came in yelling and took her away. And she slapped me so hard I fell on the bed. The she started screaming. Don't you even touch her again...You got no business touching her" (Keyes 27). Rose thought since Charlie was not a normal child, he would not be able to touch Norma. Even when Norma got a little bit older, Rose was still as protective as when Norma was born. "He's got no business to think that way about girls. A friend of his sister's comes to the house and he starts thinking like that! Ill teach him so he never forgets. Do you hear? If you ever touch a girl, ill put you away in a cage, like an animal, for the rest of your life" (Keyes 79). Rose always thought she knew if Charlie was thinking like a pervert, when really he did not know what that even meant.
             After all of the yelling and screaming at Charlie, Rose just decided to not care anymore and reject him altogether. Rose and Matt would always get into fight ...