The Perks Of Being A Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky

This is significant because Charlie feels comfortable with Sam and Patrick and feels like he can do anything. As Chbosky introduces readers to the idea of Charlie being in a friend group, he demonstrates that Charlie is at the height of his emotions, feeling delightful about himself around Sam and Patrick. Moreover, the reason both Charlie, Patrick, and Sam feel like this is that there wasn’t any major event that caused cracks in their relationships, that forced them to break away or act unusually, for as a result they don’t know how to access the situation, which in turn don’t see each other differently, in a way that they speak the same as they

However, Charlie’s willingness to engage himself in school events ultimately provides healing; whereas Holden remains stagnant from grief. First, Charlie takes the initiative to be more involved in school. In his first attempt at becoming more outgoing, he meets Sam and Patrick, who later become his best friends. Later, at a party Charlie cries out of joy when Sam and Patrick introduces him as their friend and cries even harder when all of their friends make a toast to him. He says, “I don’t know why they did that, but it was very special to me that they did” (Chbosky 38).

Transitioning to high school is very hard and stressful. In response, we look for comfort in other people who have experience. In Stephen Chbosky’s, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, many characters struggle with change and want to seek help. Charlie feels infinite when he is with his friends and when he is in the tunnel. Charlie feels infinite when he is with his friends.

As Chbosky writes, "Charlie's experience awakens his feeling of feeling infinity, as he poignantly describes,"I was crying because I was suddenly aware of the fact that it was me standing up in the tunnel with the wind over my face, not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite" (Chbosky

Charlie “grows emotionally and feels as if he’s

Charlie is stuck separate from the group, all the others are getting ready to move on with their lives, yet he must stay alone in High

Charlie is now able to develop a sense of his surroundings and he can now sense who likes him for who he is and who doesn’t. In the story it said, “Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a charlie gordon.” I’m ashamed.” (323). This helps my thesis for the theme because in the beginning of the story, Charlie thought that his “friends” liked him because they would “laugh with him” all of the time.

It is evident that all friendships have the ability to alter who a person is. Throughout the whole novel, Charlie’s “friends” were cruel to him, even though he did not come to this realization until later in the novel. His so-called “friends” pushed him down and never stopped to help him up. According to the novel,“They laughed harder every time I fell, and I was laughing too because it was so funny.

A quote from The Perks of Being a Wallflower states, “Things change and friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anyone…” The setting of this book is school, a place where students should feel safe and protected. However this is not the case for most students attending school. Division from groups in schools are causing a social monarchy to form inside the school.

The book The Perks of Being a Wallflower follows the life of a boy named Charlie who is starting his first year of high

Though he is not old, he has had a lot of horrible things happen in his life. He is an outcast at school, his best friend, Michael, committed suicide, and his Aunt Helen died in a car accident. In addition, Charlie is also very intelligent and loves books, he is selfless, and caring. This causes Charlie to forget to love himself, and fail to comprehend how love actually works, so they accept what they think they deserve. Not only does this happen to Charlie but to some of the people around him. Charlie's sister for example, she accepts the fact that her boyfriend hit her, and continues to pursue a relationship with him. This may be something she acquired from their mom, whose father was abusive and she had nothing to do except accept it. Another example of this comes from Patrick’s relationship with Brad. Their relationship is not only hidden from everyone but it's unhealthy. Brad treats Patrick as if he is nothing. And Patrick accepts it because he believes that Brad should be able to take his time, and announces their relationship when he is ready; however when they are alone, he and Patrick fine. On the other hand, Brad is being beaten by his father, who hates the fact that he is

Charlie is constantly trying to better understand people, his surroundings, and most importantly, himself. There are many life lessons to be learnt from this book. One of the main lessons I found throughout the book was

Charlie’s life is like a maze. His life if full of decisions, roadblocks, and, as always, the maze has an end. Mazes are constantly requiring you to question what you have done in the past, and ponder the future. Charlie is doing this throughout. When Charlie started his life, it seemed like it would be more of a straight line.

He goes through a lot throughout the story. He experiences a lot of things a regular high schooler would such as crushes, first kiss & date, bullies, losing friends, making friends and experimenting with drugs/alcohol. Towards the end of the school year Charlie ends up having a mental breakdown which its not the first time but it was worse than before and ends up being

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, is about teenage freshmen in high school, Charlie. So far throughout the book, we see that Charlie is not the most popular kid in school, nor is he a "loser geek. " Charlie is more of the shy quiet boy who doesn't find the time to socialise and remains the intelligent invisible freshmen. However, we see all this escalate.