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The book I’ve been reading is called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. For those who haven’t read the book, basically it's about a boy named Charlie who is 15 years old and he’s starting his freshman year of highschool. The book is a bunch of letters written to an anonymous person who never writes back, so it’s kind of like a diary recording everything throughout the year and he goes through a lot. His issues, his friends issues, his family's issues while he’s still trying to…

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde describes the satire of Victorian attitudes about marriage. Lady Bracknell, a foremost symbol of Victorian society, wants to marry her daughter Gwendolen to a good family with a respectable and noble pedigree. Jack Worthing, the protagonist, wants to marry Gwendolen, the love of his life. The Cross- examination of Jack by Lady Bracknell depicts some of the foibles and hypocrisies of late Victorian society, in which the relationships were not based…

Writing Task The use of satirical humor in “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde uses satirical humor to ridicule and deride the members of the Victorian aristocracy. Wilde criticizes certain aspects of society, mocking social conventions such as marriage. This can be seen in the play when Jacks confides to Algernon that he is in love with Gwendolen and that he has come to town to propose to her, and Algernon replies that he thought that Jack…

Mark Twain once said, “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval” (Edberg). In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, all characters seem as if they are dealing with a personal issue. We are all broken people, and this makes it easy for us as readers to draw parallels between our own lives and the lives of the characters. I can easily relate to Charlie as he is trying to figure out who he is and who he wants to be. Freshman year of high school is a difficult season of life, and it seems as…

Being My Own Best Friend: Isolation in The Perks of Being a Wallflower Loneliness is something that many teenagers experience during their time in high school. Loneliness can shape one’s character in drastic ways, and can even dictate their personal decisions. The impact of loneliness is something that is explored in detail in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Through the depiction of unhealthy relationships, irrational character behaviour, and declines in mental health,…

is incapable of forming relationships and being interactive with others. Throughout the book, he has to overcome many obstacles and attempts to find his place in the world. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult novel, told in the form of letters, that Charlie has written to the reader. It is coming of-age story in which the reader’s eyes are opened to the world of growing up, and the problems that go along with it. In the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie's interactions…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a beautifully written piece of literature about a young boy’s first year of high school. The main character, Charlie, is a socially awkward teen, just entering high school, who is struggling to cope with past events that have left him a shattered mess of emotions. He is wallflower, watching life unfold before him, although he never actually “participates”. He meets Sam and her stepbrother…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Film is movie based on the lives of three Czechoslovaks during the 1968 Prague Spring social liberation and consequent Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion. The military coup reestablished a strong socialist regime more in line with the Soviet Union vision of a strong dictatorship of the Communist Party. This was in order to prevent dissidents or free minds from disrupting the central socialist government administration. The film portrays the lives of a Tomas, a…

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters often engage in quick, witty remarks towards one another. Yet beneath their comic front, these characters’ words subtly challenge the reality we think we live in, demanding the we see beyond what we have come to accept. When Lady Bracknell asks Algernon how he has been behaving and Algernon replies he has been feeling well, Lady Bracknell remarks, “that’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together” creating…

The Importance of Being Earnest, the secrets kept and maintained by Jack Worthing, his friend Algernon Moncrieff and his abandoner Miss Prism completely influence the plot. In the play we are opened to multiple different types of characters. Many of these characters are put into situations which reveals to the audience the true meaning of the play. Often in a play, the characters success usually comes with some secret keeping from other characters. In The Importance of Being Earnest, we are able…