《Flowers for Algernon》是一部令人深思的小说，讲述了一个智力低下的男子查利接受实验手术后变得聪明，但最终又回到了原来的状态。小说通过查利的日记展现了人类的情感和复杂性，让读者反思智力与情感之间的关系。这部小说让人们思考人类的本质及智力对幸福的影响。
Flowers for Algernon读后感(一)
全书描绘了一个很让人心碎的故事，Charlie在智力增长过程中对世界产生的感知的变化非常让人心痛。他以为智力是阻碍他理解这个世界的最大障碍，却没想到伴随智力增长并没有同等程度地增加对人性的理解，让他成为了一个智商超群却不及之前智力低下时那般善良的人。
被看作实验体而不是一个有血有肉的个体是多么地让人愤怒，高智商Charlie变成了一个自大没有同理心的人也让我感到难受。他经历地一切都让人思考智力与人性的关系，第一人称的叙述，特别是作者对Charlie书写语言上的处理，从progris riport到progress report的变化，让读者能非常带入地体验Charlie一系列智商、情感、对世界的感知，甚至是对记忆的解读的变化。
作者虚构了一个科学人体实验，却让我看到，智力也许是可以被测量的，而人的感情是无法简单地被实验的。
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查理想要别人喜欢自己，他心底最想要的其实就是他的妈妈能喜欢自己，那个曾经逼着他变聪明，逼着他像正常小孩一样该上厕所就去上厕所的人。在智力退化前，还有天才智商的他去见了他母亲，他没有告诉自己的母亲和妹妹他现在的高智商只是暂时的，反而给她们留下了自己的科研成果论文，希望她们能为他骄傲，记得他聪明的样子。
虽然他变成了天才，但是我不认为他从他母亲带给他的悲剧中有真正的解脱。还是不敢暴露真实的自己，一切只是虚假的和解而已。
对他最温柔友善关心的就是Alice老师了，他认为她是他这辈子唯一爱的女人。
可是他并没有主动去和她分享他的痛苦，寻求她的理解，反而和她恋爱的时候总和她聊深奥的书本理论知识，让她觉得压力很大，崩溃地离开了。
或许他是受困于他和他母亲的关系模式，聪明、体面才可以得到肯定，不要表露脆弱和笨拙。
书里一直说他是看到光的人，但就情感来说他依旧没有真正的看到光
但是他有朴素的善良
面包店的人、Alice老师，医生，都有朴素的善良
可是大家都有自己的局限性，不完美，缺点，社会压力，挣扎。
如果不考虑变聪明后学习知识很快很爽，就情感而言，他不变聪明似乎更好一些，因为当时的他能忽略他人的局限性，忽略不完美，用一颗纯真的心，向他人靠近
当他变聪明后，当他无法忽略一些小瑕疵，人性的小弱点，一些小伤痛；他就更加无法忽略人性的大恶，过去的大伤痛了。
我在想假如查理没有进行这个实验，没有变聪明，难道这愚蠢的没见过“光”的黑暗的一生就不值得过了吗
哎，这本书看到最后 我觉得我啥结论都得不出来 不过我觉得我自己可以超越一下的就是 不必去渴望获得伤害否定自己的人的认可，不要觉得获得了他们的认可，自己的人生才有意义，才能圆满 仔细想想真的没有逻辑性、没有必要、一点都不成立 当然超越伤痛是很困难的 ——————- 总之同情初始命运就十分悲惨的人 所以还是想说 查理在接受手术之前其实已经很幸运了 在这满是悲剧的世界里
2/3页Flowers for Algernon读后感(三)
开始的部分是今年上半年看的，今天下午从百分之三十几继续往后看，看了一下午，看完了
Start with “If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.”, end with “Its good to have frends...”;
“It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron”;
“all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love”;
Alice and Fay were saints alright;
Nobody in this book was perfect, not even Charlie’s father. Though he accepted Charlie as he was, the way he communicated with Rose could only escalating everything, “You’re crazy””You’re being impossible”; surely wasn’t Charlie, not even after he got intellectual, he was indeed arrogant and self-centered, but these characteristics were magnified by his higher IQ, by this sudden transition of mindset of people around him about once a moron now a genius, by the sharp contrast between the sincerity and honesty radiate by a retardee.
and we can also see how childhood memory could affect one’s personality, how we look back and wonder whether it was a memory or something our young brains made up; I remember my mom bumping her forehead against the floor and crying and shouting but I must be very young bc I don’t even remember whether it was in Shanghai before primary school or in Beijing later. Or maybe it was in Hong Kong. I remember my mom and dad fought, like, literally fought, grabbing each other’s shoulder and all the push and shoves, and before that, in the morning we were even in the park playing football. I didn’t understand. I still don’t understand now. But the fight and quarrel must have accumulated for a long time and I was too young to notice.
“Just talk to me. Tell me about things, the way it was when I was a little boy, that's all I want. I won't hurt you. I don't hate you. But I've got to know about myself, to understand myself before it's too late. Don't you see, I can't be a complete person unless I can understand myself, and you're the only one in the world who can help me now. Let me come in and sit down for a little while.” (when Charlie went to find Rose, you feel the desperation reading this);
“No reason for burdening her with the truth” (even now I couldn’t find myself understand this, is it some virtue or kindness or some morality that I don’t understand？ maybe it is..better not think about it)
Alice: “I wanted to see you."
Charlie: "What's wrong with the zoo？”
Alice: “Because there's still time. And I want to spend it with you."
Charlie: "Is that a song？”
nice catch lol
Coach session那段有点抽象但竟然又很能理解；
“That made me angry because I think I used to know”, yes one of the most relatable feeling indeed…
“I wish I coud be smart agen rite now. If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.”,
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