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Directed by Stephen Chbrosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a phenominal movie set in the 90's era that accurately shows a realisic coming of age story and how it feels growing up as a teenager in high school in society. This film shows the perspective of central character, Charlie and his ups and downs in the beginning of high school in a fascinating, exciting and somewhat amusing way. In my opinion, an important and reoccuring theme in "Perks of being a wallflower" is love. Love is…

act in a different manner than they usually act and thus portray that they are flipping their gender roles? In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde does such a task by portraying the character’s to represent something other than themselves. Furthermore, the author, Oscar Wilde is mocking and making fun of gender roles in The Importance of Being Earnest, by critiquing the period of the Victorian era and how these roles were portrayed during this time that the play was written…

Madisyn Lemman English IV Ms. Gawith 25 September 2017 Letters of a Wallflower Wallflower; someone who sees things, keeps quiet about them and understands. Charlie is a perfect example of this in The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Charlie is a highschool boy who is coping with his friend Michael Dobson’s suicide. He writes letters to us, the audience, explaining his life from his past and present days. Throughout the novel, direct imagery is shown in different sexual…

Author of The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, utilizes dialogue, diction and irony to illustrate the play’s protagonist, Jack Worthing, who in turn illuminates the script’s theme that behavior deemed appropriate by society may conflict with moral decency. The dialogue from the interrogation of Jack by Lady Bracknell, his love’s mother, reveals that he is a character of high class and puts up a front in order to make a good impression in the face of others, as after the meeting, he…

form of this is music. Music has been around for centuries; therefore, individuals are, undoubtedly, inserting older songs to their work. An example of a music supervisor using an earlier song in a film is from, Perks of Being a Wallflower. For those who may not know, Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 film by Stephen Chbosky about a socially awkward freshman in high school who befriends a quirky group of seniors. With these friends, Charlie, the young boy, discovers music, love, and…

to have meaning for some aspects of life and freedom for others. In literature, the symbols of lightness and weight have been use to represent a dichotomous relationship exposing the realities of life. Within the novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, lightness and weight represent life choices that a person believes to be meaningless and choices that they believe to be full of meaning. It is through the use of third person omniscient narration that the reader is able to understand the minds…

The perks of being a wallflower can be related to many people with the type of situation of molestation with charlie and his aunt. Which can lead to being traumatized and we see this throughout the book.In the book the perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky his a little boy who meets people that get in situations and lead to them affecting there relationship.The futher the story goes we can tell the way he acts is because of the major problems with his aunt helan.Charlies emotions and…

The play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was one of Wilde’s bestselling plays. Oscar Wilde’s play is about a group of upper class friends named Algernon and Jack who imitate a made up character named “Earnest”. Throughout the play, not only does Wilde include many examples of irony, but he also criticizes the upper class. In The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde exposes the lack of responsibility in the upper class through the use of bunburying and petty arguments about…

The book I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky. In my personal opinion this novel has done an amazing job at getting it’s message across to it’s readers. When you get near the end of the book you begin to realize that throughout the novel the author writes important pieces of information to build up to it’s conclusion. I think it’s important that he did this because once you get to the end of the book you better understand all the situations that occurred. For…

The not so good perks of sexual abuse In Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a child named Charlie is struggling socially, and basically through life. Drugs, family, intimacy, and other factors interfere with his day to day life...he is basically the poster-boy for being awkward. Charlie is unable to be sexually intimate with sam because, unconsciously, he correlates his love for Aunt Helen with his love for Sam, and Charlie’s grief is mixed with unprocessed sexual trauma.…