The “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, is about a boy named charlie, he is just ending the eighth grade and the only person he has ever considered a friend just committed suicide. Soon after this occurrence he begins to write in a journal he now has and entitles each entry with “Dear Friend” which he does because this is the only “person” that will listen to him, it is the only one who he thinks understands him. Charlie’s life soon gets better only to get worse and his coping methods go downhill when he and his get in a fight then it gets better, but then they must go to college. That is when he loses everything and recalls when his Aunt Helen would sexually abused him every weekend when she lived with them. Whereas in the book, “A Child
