When preparing for this assignment, I was unaware of the impact Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky had on individuals. At a recent dinner party I had commented on the topic of this paper and immediately a guest jumped into the conversation expressing her emphatic love for the novel. She expressed how it gave her space to “explore thoughts she was unable to express before” (Ashworth) When I asked further on whether or not some of the content was problematic, she merely shrugged, assuring me that life is filled with the “awkward and bad things” that everyone has to go through. With this sentiment in mind, it gave me a clearer picture on the positive impact the novel had. However, I was still hesitant without further research on the
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He suffers mostly from being a teenager and goes through his freshman year with his two friends Patrick and Sam. Both of them use alcohol and drugs in the duration of their senior career and expose Charlie to the same. The novel itself is an “exploration of adolescent anguish, depictions of homosexuality, rape, drug use, masturbation, and suicide” (Abbamondi). When the book was first released, a genre called the “teen problem novel” was emerging. The genre consisted of similar themes that Perks uses, however, what separates itself from the genre is how relatable the character Charlie is. His sometimes humorous and awkward voice spoke volumes over the cynical and monotonous tones of his contemporaries: “...Perks of Being a Wallflower, while it 's not really a laugh riot, was still funny enough and different enough from those incredibly bleak ones to catch a lot of people 's attention" (Hare, CNN). One passage in particular that shows this is the first time Charlie unknowingly eats a weed …show more content…
The definition of “pornographic” accounding to Webster’s Dictionary is: “sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.” Author’s intention versus reader’s interpretation has been a constant argument in the literary world as well in class, and the Audet’s usage of “pornographic” falls under reader’s perception of the novel. The father’s worry that the explicit and graphic scenes used in the book are in order to entertain instead of the author’s intent, which will be discussed later in this essay. With the father’ objection, it leads one to infer that his son four children are going to exposed to a negative connotation or sex and relationships believing that it right. One of the instances in question, is when Charlie’s sister is hit by her
He suffers mostly from being a teenager and goes through his freshman year with his two friends Patrick and Sam. Both of them use alcohol and drugs in the duration of their senior career and expose Charlie to the same. The novel itself is an “exploration of adolescent anguish, depictions of homosexuality, rape, drug use, masturbation, and suicide” (Abbamondi). When the book was first released, a genre called the “teen problem novel” was emerging. The genre consisted of similar themes that Perks uses, however, what separates itself from the genre is how relatable the character Charlie is. His sometimes humorous and awkward voice spoke volumes over the cynical and monotonous tones of his contemporaries: “...Perks of Being a Wallflower, while it 's not really a laugh riot, was still funny enough and different enough from those incredibly bleak ones to catch a lot of people 's attention" (Hare, CNN). One passage in particular that shows this is the first time Charlie unknowingly eats a weed …show more content…
The definition of “pornographic” accounding to Webster’s Dictionary is: “sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.” Author’s intention versus reader’s interpretation has been a constant argument in the literary world as well in class, and the Audet’s usage of “pornographic” falls under reader’s perception of the novel. The father’s worry that the explicit and graphic scenes used in the book are in order to entertain instead of the author’s intent, which will be discussed later in this essay. With the father’ objection, it leads one to infer that his son four children are going to exposed to a negative connotation or sex and relationships believing that it right. One of the instances in question, is when Charlie’s sister is hit by her