Essay On Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Author, Stephen Chbosky once wrote in his book, Perks of Being a Wallflower, “I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song on that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.” This book, and this quote really relate to me because in this book, the main character is a “wallflower’, unlike oranges, but I relate to him because he breaks out of his shell and takes part in some risk taking. Charlie, the main character, also begins to make friends, but he gets to know them first, as do I. His humor slowly comes out around his new found friends, and he does a good job of entertaining them. As he writes in the comfort of his own privacy, about his first year in highschool. As an orange, I too seem driven to entertain others, I value privacy and space, but I’m not the kind of …show more content…
Out of the friends I do have, it’s the memories we have in which I strive for. The jokes that are said and the nights we don’t spend every minute together for the sake of our own privacy. Those are the moments that make me who I am. I’m seen as the girl who appears quite in large groups, but if seen around her friends would be making the moment all worth the while. Which reminds me of yet another Stephen Chbosky quote from the same book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, “Enjoy it, because it’s happening.” Which I could say completely sums up those memories, during the short, yet bitter sweet weekends with those friends. Because in the end, weather I was taking a big risk of staying out too late, or the small risk of saying a joke that might not be taken the way I intended, it was always with those