Stephen Chbosky's 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'

The film I chose to write about is Perks of Being a Wallflower. The story starts with Charlie the main character feeling depressed and lonely.1 His best friend committed suicide and he is about to start high school without any friends. The story is told in he perspective of Charlie because he writes letters about what is happening in his life. Charlie is an avid reader and immediately connects with his English teacher Mr. Anderson.1 Although Charlie is timid, he meets Sam and Patrick at a football game that he was attending alone. Charlie seems happier throughout the movie as Patrick and Sam invite him out with them. They become good supporting friends that he has not had since the death of his friend.

Charlie wakes up, confused and hurt in a torture room. He has not a clue as to how he arrived at this terrifying destination; the last thing he remembers is being a normal, seventeen year old kid. In truth, he is the cliched high school boy. Charlie West excels in the art of karate, is an above average student, and dreams of one day entering the Air Force and becoming a fighter pilot. He surrounds himself with a good group of friends, goes to church and prays regularly, and even has a crush on one of the most popular girls in school.

     The book also focuses on Charlie’s home life. Charlie has two siblings that make him feel invisible. There’s a hidden resentment in the tone that is used by Charlie to explain his sister and brother. But by the end they have managed to form a certain bond that Charlie has always wanted.

“Charlie wake up now, your gonna be late for school again!” Jack, Charlie’s father, exclaimed. “Dad, I don’t want to go to school today or tomorrow...or ever. I’m tired of it all.” Charlie moaned out. “Charlie boy, you need to succeed in school, for me and your mother and for our family. Do this for us son.” Jack explained. Charlie rolled out of bed and slipped on his boots and his uniform. He glanced in the mirror and saw an unfamiliar face stare back at him, a changed person. Charlie slung his bag over his shoulder and made sure to grab his money before he left. As he approached his group of friends, he looked around and realized everything was the same. The same as yesterday and the day before that, and even the day before that. Charlie came to the realization that nothing would ever

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is by no means a typical narrative. Taking the form of an epistolary novel presented as a series of letters from a boy who calls himself Charlie, but notes that he will change names and minor details so for the sake of his anonymity, the short novel tackles themes such as pedophilia, drug use, depression, abortion and many more complex issues. Stuck in the middle of the mix is a young boy who certainly is not the archetypal protagonist, the novel's wallflower. Subjected to witness the hardships of those around him, he rarely goes out on a limb to achieve much gratification for himself, remaining socially dormant instead. However, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, author Stephen

Date: The date of original publication of the novel was on September 21, 2006, published by Dutton and Speak.

To analyze the characteristics of Charlie, the character and characterization theory can be employed. He is a quiet young boy who is neither talkative nor active whose only best friend is Michael who died by committing suicide. He spends most of his time indoors reading books and never plays with other kids. In all his letters, he does not mention his interactions with other children except Michael. In all his high school, Charlie only interacts with Patrick, Sam, Mary, and Bob but remain quiet to the extent that Patrick whispers that Charlie is something. Charlie is also an introvert. He is quiet, kept to himself through reading and listening music, and does not socialize with neighbors. He is different to his elder sister who feels that Charlie is a freak boy. He chooses to tell his story through writing letters and not showing his entire life to other people. He likes thinking about other people but never judges them. Charlie is also a lonely person after his beloved aunt died in an accident and later in middle school, his best friend Michael dies after coming suicide. Following these very hard times, he is

The overall theme in this story is hard to find out. In this book there are multiple themes. One is don’t cheat your friends. Others are like don’t lie or be confident in what you do. So there can be many themes in this book.

The story is more character driven as it goes through Charlie’s personal life. It starts off with Charlie at college for retarded adults. His teacher is Alice thinks it is a good idea for him to go through an operation that will boost his intelligence. The plot also goes through Charlie’s life at work at the bakery. He talks about the people he works with and how he thinks of them as friends, but Charlie does not know that they are actually making fun of him behind his back. After the surgery, Charlie talks about work as well and how he gets fired. Then he talks about his relationship with Alice and also with Algernon. Finally, at the end of the book while he is losing his intelligence, and he goes through flashbacks of personal events that happened to him, then he explains what he will be doing now to try to become more intelligent

John Green gives us an interestin storyline- attending boarding school- while slowlyand steadily developing characters that anyone in this age group can recognize. Incrementally, he surrenderes their backrounds by reflection on their reactions to daily events at the school, and the reader begins to feel drawn along for the ride. The stroy was moved along through the school year while friendships,

Anyways in short that's my independent book reflection i absolutely love this book and wish i could go into more detail but i think it'd be much better if you read it yourself my experience with the book was at the very least “trippy” as it was formated like letters to an actual person and i just related and empathized with charlie so much that i legitimately forgot he's a fictional character now i know i might sound insane but i was half awake while reading most

At the beginning, Charlie is without friends and is rather alone. He is very gifted and quite an overthinker which expels him from the usual teenage social groups. This changes, however, when he meets Sam and Patrick at a football game. They expose him to all new experiences. Resulting from his new friendships, is his relationship with Mary Elizabeth, his experimentations with drugs, and new knowledge of being a person. During this time, he is increasingly happy because Charlie was finally living.

I think that almost all teens go through a certain time of depression, some more than others but Charlie 's is kind of exaggerated I think. I can relate to Charlie though when he cried about losing his beloved Aunt Helen, because of what I went through when my grandfather passed away. I admire how maturely Charlie explained the quote, "I would die for you. But I won 't live for you". His idea that " every person has to live for his/her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people 'participate. '", is very strong and I think makes perfect sense and defines life a little bit. In my opinion also, I think that I and pretty much everyone else is alike Charlie, because we can be open and agree to other 's thoughts. We can all watch, and hear and talk about differing opinions and in the end not really judge the opinions. The fact that Stephen Chobsky chose to create a story about a boy growing up and being labeled different catagories, especially a "wallflower", is an interesting idea. Most authors wouldn 't be so daring to write about something so controversial. And Charlie 's story is controversial; most parents and teachers wouldn 't want their children to read something about the experiences that a boy has in high school, but at some point we have to realize what 's true and false. In the book, I really enjoyed reading the last 30 or so

The Perks of Being A Wallflower is a book written by novelist Stephen Chbosky, which illustrates the struggle of teenagers in their lives. The book has been written from the perspective of a teenage student, Charlie. Charlie is a wallflower, always watches life from the sidelines. He is a freshman who is befriended by some high school seniors. When Charlie meets his new friends, he is exposed to the new world of drugs, music, relationships, love, sexuality and more. This book contains various themes on adolescent that as a teenager we experience in our lives and significantly the major themes the book broadly talks about are relationships and experiences. Relationships and experiences shapes

He thought maybe this is why the boy hit his sister. What is most significant is when Charlie saw Patrick and Brad kissing and did not tattle on them. Instead, he listened to Patrick’s story about his relationship with Brad and understood that Patrick takes nothing seriously because this is how he denies his negative emotions. Moreover, Charlie is smart. Throughout the novel, he develops a deep bond with his English teacher as the teacher realizes the boy’s intelligence and offers him various books to read and write reviews