siblings, and friends, and if you are received with open arms, the goal is complete. At the end of a day, no matter how awful the child has behaved or how unfair the parents are in their choice of discipline, a child longs to be loved. It is not till later in ones life that goals begin to change. After a while, children grow into teenagers, and while they still want their parents to love them, it gets pushed to the sidelines as they begin starting their own lives. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gordon, is a disabled man. His goal is childlike because he cannot get past that intellectual stage. However, he is not completely blinded to thishis one aspiration is to be smart. Fifteen year old Hannah has unreached goals as well. In Jillian Hortons The Bicycle, young Hannah has a burning desire to be free. She is closed in, like Charlie, but unlike her, Charlies sheltered state is of the mind. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger, (Keyes, 518). This is Charlies explanation of what he felt before he became smart. His progress did not happen all at once, but over time. Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make we smart. I want to be smart, (Keyes, 500). Immediately, we know Charlies desire, and the story follows his journey as he becomes smarter. Within the first page of The Bicycle Hannah reveals her first desire as well: Though I was supposed to be studying my Hebrew lessons, I would press my face up tight against the bedroom door and listen to hear Tante Rose tell my parents that I had a brilliant future as a concert pianist. I dreamed of myself in flowing dresses with my long black hair grown out to my waist and a string of pearls at my throat, (Horton, 33). These two characters are united by their dreams. Over time, they develop new dreams, and as the story unfolds, one can watch these transitions. While Charlies most wanted goal is to be smart, he has underlying desires as well, such as wanting to have friends. Before he was used in the doctors experiment to be smart, he was oblivious to the fact that his friends were making fun of him. After the operashun (Keyes, 502), his eyes are opened to this. Then I walked home. Its a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say to pull a Charlie Gordon. Im ashamed (Keyes, 510). Now Charlie has no one except the experimenting Drs. Nemuur and Strauss, and his teacher, Miss Kinnian. A friendless situation does not go unshared as Hannah feels similarly in her story. Being kept so busy between dreams of becoming a famous concert pianist and keeping up with school work, Hannah has no time to have friends, or do anything else. My friends Ilana and Leah, I observed, rode bikes and talked about movies and books and had dates and dance classes and Hebrew lessons. I went home to Tante Rose. I felt lonely and isolated, increasingly aware of the differences between myself and the girls like Ilana and Leah.