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  • Essay / Analysis of the book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

    On August 25, 1991, a first-year high school student began writing and sending letters to an unidentified being whom the student referred to only as " Friend ". The writer calls himself "Charlie", replacing the names of the people in his life with false ones, and although nothing is clear about who he really is and who he is writing to, through these letters Charlie ends up expressing all his heart. , wit and soul in his in-depth letters resembling diary entries. Starting high school as an outcast, Charlie is a complete outsider with only his advanced English teacher Bill as a friend, but things slowly begin to turn around for him as two extraordinarily different seniors known as Sam and Patrick enter his life and take Charlie. under their wing. Strange but exciting new experiences such as drugs, first dates, abuse, family drama, and friends arise in Charlie's life as he begins to discover more about himself, the world, his past and the art of growing itself. Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a rich and rewarding experience in itself that defines what it means to be an introverted teenager in the 90s.RETELL:What is the main theme of the story?What is the genre of this story? book ? “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is an epistolary novel (a book made up of a series of documents usually in the form of letters or diary entries), and I believe it is a perfect example of a "forthcoming novel" The story begins with 15-year-old Charlie writing to his friend about how he is afraid of high school and has a pretty negative and scary image of it, probably due to the fact that his only best friend Michael had committed suicide not long ago. At this point we are... middle of paper ...... in character development.) In a nutshell, Charlie was an introverted, shy, inexperienced guy who was afraid to acknowledge the darker side . periods of his life, but after experiencing the wonderful events thrown at him, he begins to relax, open up and accept every part of himself, recognizing that no matter what happens, he will and should go well. *NOTE: RETURN TO RETELL*CONCLUSION: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” was simply a novel about growing up, but in reality the book had so many hidden messages, conceptions and ideas that really changed my perspective on certain areas in life. I was able to relate and reflect on the book, and the story itself is one I will never forget. I would recommend this book to an audience perhaps slightly older than our class, and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a novel I will definitely read again..