Charlie hopes whoever the reader is, is older than him. The letters are of Charlies thoughts and how he fails and grows as a young person in high school.
The year Charlie starts his first letters is August 25, 1991 and his last letter he wrote is August 23, 1992. Charlie loves to read and in his advanced english class his teacher gives Charlie a book called To Kill a Mockingbird for extra work because his teacher thinks he can handle it because Charlie is doing so good in his class and he allows Charlie