It takes a special kind of person to be a special education teacher. They have to be caring, patient, and understanding. People who take up this responsibility by helping these kind of people show that there are still good and selfless people out there in the world. The character Alice Kinnian in "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes is one of these people. She not only cares for Charlie and sees him as a person …showed first 75 words of 1145 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1145 total…the side of life, where compassion and generosity are the worth of a person, not their intelligence level. She helps him find a balance between intellect and emotion. Without Alice in the story, Charlie would've never developed emotionally and would've become more of a machine than a person. Alice encourages Charlie throughout the book that he doesn't need to choose his brain or his heart over the other, but must find a balance in between.