Read the excerpts from "Flowers for Algernon." I feel a lot better today, but I guess I'm still a little angry that all the time people were laughing and making fun of me because I wasn't so smart. When I become intelligent like Dr. Strauss says, with three times my I. Q. of 68, then maybe I'll be like everyone else and people will like me. What do Charlie’s thoughts and feelings tell readers? He is hopeful that someday he will fit in with others. He wants to get back at the people who are cruel to him. He is beginning to accept himself for who he is. He knows that people’s behavior will never change.