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Summary Of Coming Of Age Letter By Stephen Chbosky

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The book is aa coming of age letter-style novel written by Stephen Chbosky. This is the story of a fifteen-year-old male teen going through changes in his life. Charlie has an older brother and sister, but is still quite coy. He finds friends in Sam and Patrick, whom introduce Charlie to their buddies, and goes to parties with them. He goes through different types of relations with these people, being their friend to not socializing with them, because they were upset with Charlie, to ultimately reuniting as friends, writing all these thoughts to an unknown pen-pal. This novel takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the suburbs. According to the dates, the year is 1991-1992, so the stories takes place that school year, and the epilogue happens in August. Charlie is the main character in the book, and he really has no enemies, besides his sister, who he makes peace with at the end of that school year. If I were to say anything, id say that the antagonist would be society. Sam and Patrick also play important roles, but are really just sub characters, since the book is based from Charlie’s point of view. Charlie is a round, dynamic character because he goes through the process of puberty and read his thoughts and his traits. Sam and …show more content…

The two kids teach Charlie about life, and how to enjoy it. During that time, he develops a crush on Sam, which led to the disbandment of their squad. Charlie must wait it off and think about what he has done, and also wonder what he will do after his friends graduate. The internal conflict is that Charlie must learn to cope with what will happen to his friends after graduation and the feelings of puberty, which is also his external conflict. The main conflict was that he near jeopardized his friendship with his friends, and the outcome was that he waited it out and led to everything being

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