Leslie Lopez
22 September 2013
English 1302
Romero
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” Is a very popular quote from the book “The perks of being a wallflower”. Not many people knew that this was a book made into a movie. Perks of being a wallflower is a book written by Stephen Chobosky. The book is based on letters written by a boy named Charlie that were about his freshman year in high school. This book stays true to the life of a freshman’s adventure into high school. Teenagers have to deal with so many things and coming from a teenager that just came out of high school im speaking the truth. The life of a teenager is tough and sometimes hard to write about but Chobosky hit it right on point with sticking true to the life of a teenager. We learn how Charlie deals with death, life in high school and making friends. Charlie is having a difficult time adjusting to high school. Upperclassmen picking on him, living in the shadow of his older brother and sister and trying to make new friends. While Charlie is trying to move forward with his life his past somehow affects him. Charlie was dealing with the death of not only of his Aunt Hellen but also lost his bestfriend during the summer. Charlie thoughout the book has flash backs of him at 5 years old and of his Aunt Helen which he was close with. In one of the flashback’s it tells how she had died in a car accident while going to get Charlie his birthday present. Charlie always had though it was his fault she had died. After having a meltdown and him almost trying to commite suicide he finally comfesses after 16 years he had been sexual assaulted by her. This is why Charlie has a hard time with life itself. You could feel the pain Charlie had felt and what he was going through at such a young age.
There been many books written about the life a teenager in high school but not just about high school. Some books have talked about a love story, sports life or just some random made up story that is probably not even true. To write a story from a made from a teenagers point of view is a hard task to do which not many succeded and stuck to what it really is like in high school. Like come on do you really think your going to be singing and dancing in the cafeteria during lunchtime? I think not. The perks of being a wallflower stayed true to the life of teenager in high school. They showed how it was to go on their first date, first high school dance and their first encounture of sex and drugs. As we read the book we remembered what it was like to be in high school. Flashbacks of images went through your head and almost relive what Charlie had went through. High school was a time to experiment things, make friends and memories not try and sing along with everyone in the cafeteria. It talked about true life not some made of story of which is one reason why this book attracted young people including myself.
Leaving middle and coming into high school you would think
on purpose, such as in the following quote, “...And I opened the door to the basement, and my sister and this boy were naked... And she screamed at me in a whisper “Get out. You pervert.” So I left.” (Chbosky) The highly banned book Perks of Being A Wallflower was number three on the top one hundred banned books in America in 2009, because the book is allegedly anti-family, talks about drugs, suicide and homosexuality, has offensive language, is sexually explicit and unsuited to certain age groups…
Kara Carlson Mrs.Wrasman Honors World Lit&Comp. 22 May 2013 I Swear We are Infinite The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, is narrated through the use of letters by the main character, Charlie, to an anonymous reader as an opening for his fears. Charlie’s freshman year of high-school is a life changer. The novel expresses the importance of friendship, with plot points dripping in depravity with underage drinking and drugs; the trauma of a teenage wasteland that also manages…
The perks of being a wallflower Theme: Friendship, Drugs, and Sex. Summary: The perks of being a wallflower is a novel written from the point of view of a high school freshman, the main characteristic is Charlie. Structure of the novel is based on Charlie's role as a stranger sent letters to another person. In the first year of high school, his friend Michael committed suicide, he felt very alone. In the following days, he met a student named Patrick, and Patrick introduced his sister Sam to…
The book I read for summer reading is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The reader learns on the first page that the book is set up as a letter to a friend (the reader). The writer of the letter is a boy named Charlie, who is a wallflower. A wallflower is someone that sits back and watches everyone and everything that is around him. It is clear that he is bullied because he would rather walk forty minutes home every day from school instead of taking the bus with the other students…
9 January 2013 We Are Infinite The title of the book I read is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Its copyright is 1999 by Stephen Chbosky. The setting is unknown and the time is 1991. In this book Charlie, the protagonist, is a sincere and sensitive incoming freshmen who writes anonymous letters to an unknown “friend” as a way to deal with being sexually abused as a child and the recent loss of his best and only friend, Michael, who recently committed suicide. Charlie’s Aunt Helen…
being infinite is brought up many times in books relating to high school students. One book constantly brings up this feeling with a teenage boy named Charlie. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky uses high school struggles to show humanity’s desire to fight for popularity and acceptance. Is it better to be a wallflower or be an outspoken person who has to cover up their feelings because they are fighting to stay popular? In this book Charlie fights this phenomenon with himself and with…
childhood? Unable to ever escape and mature? This would not make it all that memorable and fun would it? This is case of sixteen year old Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger, and fifteen year old Charlie in Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Holden is a 16 year old boy growing up in out of private school. His last straw is when he is expelled from Pencey Prep and decides to travel to New York in his own. Charlie on the other hand is growing up in loving family…
through her connections with people and groups, the development of her relationships with friends and family, and her accumulating knowledge of herself throughout the novel portray how Josie undertakes her journey of belonging. The film “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky is an influential story about a socially awkward teenager Charlie who is used to living his life with no meaningful purpose, until he meets Sam and her step-brother Patrick, a witty and outgoing duo. Aspects of belonging…
8 October 2013 The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of–age novel written by Stephen Chbosky, an American novelist. The books starts off with a 15-year-old teenage boy named Charlie writing letters to an anonymous person about his life. In these letters he tells about how he is starting high school and what he fears of it because Michael, the only friend he once had, committed suicide the year before. Charlie is known as a wallflower and he quickly makes…
Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower “One must…