Comparing Perks Of Being A Wallflower And The Notebook

Have you ever written letters for the love of your life expressing every emotion you could possibly be feeling and still know the person you’re writing to isn’t reading what you took so much time and effort to express? The theme of unattainable love is present in the novel Perks of Being A Wallflower and the movie The Notebook. Charlie, the main character in Perks of Being A Wallflower has this infatuation and love for Sam the same way that Noah, the main character in The Notebook has for Allie. The way these two main characters act out about how they feel are similar, neither of them give up on their love for Sam or Allie. No one can control how he or she feels, so they both continue to express how they feel through letters. Throughout this …show more content…
She told him at the beginning of the book that he’s too young for her, but that doesn’t get rid of the feelings he truly has for her. Charlie was just fine with being only friends with Sam as long as she was happy and he got to be apart of her life. By the end of the book Sam and Charlie kiss, she tells Charlie she wants the first person he ever kisses to love him. So she kisses him as a gesture to tell him she loved him. Even though she told him she didn’t like him at the beginning things work in a mysterious way and Charlie didn’t understand until the moment when Sam said this to him. "Charlie, I told you not to think of me that way nine months ago because of what I'm saying now. Not because of Craig. Not because I didn't think you were great. It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them." (Chbosky, 164) In the Notebook Allie finally reads the letters Noah sent her when they were sixteen after her mom comes to find her and tells her she’s been hiding them from Allie. (The Best Love 5/6 Scene.) After all the years that go by Noah tells Allie she needs to do what she wants. After reading the letters Allie had made a choice. Her choice was still Noah and Noah was still choosing her, but wasn’t in the position she was because she was engaged and about to get married to another man. She then realizes no matter what anyone else says she loves Noah and Noah loves her and realizes she couldn’t lose him again. The love in both of these stories was