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    The Importance of Being Earnest Character Analysis: In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde is mocking the Victorian society as a whole. In a society where affirmed progress was key, it was critical for artists like Oscar Wilde and the Ozark Actors Theatre to have a clear-cut expression of the incomplete perception of life in the nineteenth-century England. Wilde's onslaught on the conduct of the current times is an effort to accomplish the author's revelation that art has the capability

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    As mentioned above, the traits Charlie exhibited because of his trauma are his inability to voice his opinions and the fact that he blames himself for things he cannot control. On the other hand, some characteristics of Charlie are not related to his trauma but they are who he really is. Charlie is a shy, quiet boy, “I keep quiet most of the time.” The author’s choice of the title, wallflower, is accurate for Charlie tends to sit back and watch people go about their lives instead of participating

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    The title of the novel Perks of Being a Wallflower ties into the storyline by providing a concept usually seen as awkward and unaccepted in today’s society and introducing the idea that acting out of one’s own choice, rather than society’s standards, can be beneficial to the creation of one’s character. It helps the readers to understand that, while many try to fit in and change who they are to do so, being unique and facing the challenges that come against a person is a crucial part of one’s life

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    The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a story from the point of view of a high school freshman named Charlie. He is an introvert guy who faces different challenging problems in life. The author, Stephen Chbosky plotted the story of this book very well. The story is actually told through Charlie’s letters to an anonymous person known as “friend”, explaining experiences as they happen. The story of this book will make the audience laugh and it will also make them sad and cry. There

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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower is told in first person point of view because it is told from the perspective of a character inside the novel. Setting: The novel takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel takes place around the 1990s. Main Characters: There are three main characters of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. These characters include Charlie, Sam, and Patrick. Patrick and Sam are step- siblings and are both seniors while Charlie is a freshman. Patrick is a funny, outgoing senior

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    Title- The Perks of Being a Wallflower Author- Stephen Chbosky Genre- Fiction The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel about coming of age that is seen through the perspective of Charlie, a young ‘wallflower’ that is starting high school and experiences the troublesome teenage life filled with drugs, sexuality and love. Charlie writes this book in a series of letters to an anonymous person. Charlie is the main protagonist of the story who is apprehensive and a kind-hearted boy however he has many

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    The Perks Of Being a Wallflower – Assignment page We chose to write about Patrick. Patrick is played by Ezra Matthew Miller at the age of 20. Patrick is a senior at the same high school Charlie goes to and shares wood class with him. He jokes a lot and doesn’t take things seriously and therefore he isn’t a very good student. In the beginning of the movie Patrick is joking around and leads him to getting the nickname nothing and soon everyone at school start calling him that. He has a stepsister named

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    The book that I chose for my Independent Reading project was "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. This book is written in Charlie's, the main characters, point of view. The book consists of letters written by Charlie to an unnamed "friend". He explains how his therapist recommend this to him. He writes every few days but sometimes take a gap between letters. The letters basically say his thoughts and what happened throughout the day. Already while reading the first letter you can

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    My book was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The book is basically about a fifteen-year-old boy, who struggles throughout the novel and his friends help Charlie discover the joys of friendship, first love, music and more. Today I’m going to be talking about sexual assault throughout the world. I chose this topic because in my book the idea of sexual assault is one of the crucial struggles that Charlie has to deal with. Over the years, the idea of sexual assault has been vital throughout the world

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    An Outline Summary: Excerpts from Being and Time (1927) (Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-towards-Death) Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger started his argument by saying that once the Dasein reaches its death, it then loses its state of being “there” and is now transitioning to a no-longer-dasein state and will take it as an experience. However, death of the Other, as he said, is rather impressive and the termination of Dasein, in turn, will be ‘Objectively’ accessible therefore

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