Based on my knowledge of modernism this is how “Flowers for Algernon” and "The Country of the Kind" fits into the movement. Firstly, the stories are written from the first-person point of view. Though, not always the case literature from the modernist movement tend to be in the first person. Importance is put more on the narrator. In modernism, the character isn’t just a character they have a legit voice. In modernism, the stories focus more on how science/technology influence or harm society and personal issues the protagonist's face. This ties into another literary element—theme. There’s a reason why in both stories the narrators are outsiders and things don’t end well for them. This is common in modernism. Nevertheless, here are the reasons