Stephen Chbosky

reader’s personal characteristics and likings. Different readers will attach to different characters on different levels. Authors can develop their character in various ways to appeal to which ever group of readers they want to reach. Salinger and Chbosky allowed readers to develop sympathy for their almost identical main characters. This is what makes these two novels very comparable. Even though they have very dissimilar plots and endings, these two novels remain truly similar in structure and…

character. They can decide whether you will become a straight A student or someone who doesn 't care about school, a doctor or a drug addict, or even things like having a clean record or being in prison for life. In The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky uses these factors to develop the character of Charlie. Charlie is a fifteen year old boy who decides to write letters to an unidentified friend because he is starting his freshman year in high school. Charlie starts as a boy who looks…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Charlie. The entire story is comprised of letters that Charlie writes to a friend, who is not named, but it can be presumed that the friend is the reader of the book. This type of writing allows the readers to get a first person perspective of how Charlie lives his life and what he is thinking. The story begins with Charlie attempting to cope with the loss of his friend Michael, who committed…

Themes of Abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower In both the novel and the movie, the theme of abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower is very prevalent in the story. Both mediums follow Charlie who is entering his freshman year of high school. Charlie attends a football game alone and finds Patrick, a señor in his shop class, who invites him to sit with him. The two of them are joined by Sam, Patrick’s stepsister and Charlie is immediately drawn to her. When Charlie gets home that night, he…

LITERARY TERMS Word: motif Definition: A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. Quote: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all…

Stephen Chbosky has a famous quote that says “We accept the love we think we deserve”, and I found this out first-hand way back in October 2014. One day after school my best friend Erika, a bright bubbling spirit and I went to go hang out with our loud, dramatic friend Lisa and her friends after school. So, Erika and I trekked over to Lisa’s house and we went in and Lisa had some friends that we did not know over. As we did introductions, a boy named John introduced himself to me. John was…

The perks of being a wall flower, a great book might I add, shows this in many ways and its quite beautiful. The very first example of this from the first chapter, “That’s when my dad slapped me.. Aunt Helen told my father to never do that again” (chbosky 6) So many reasons as to why Aunt Helen was so triggered by violence, But the main reason why was Aunt Helen was physically abused, due to grades she was beaten. The beating left…

How there is a hero, a place to go,a reason to go, a challenge, and a real reason for the adventure.This classification can fit into many different fictional or non-fictional pieces of writing, each using it in their own unique way. Charlie, from Stephen Chbosky’s novel the Perks of Being a Wallflower is just one…

The novel A Separate Peace, written by John Kowles, follows the story of a high school student of Gene Forester. It begins as Gene is revisiting his old high school after graduating and he visits key spots in his life and tells his story along with the tragedies. He was attending Devon’s high school during the start of World War II. As he tells his story he coves over three major themes. The novel occurs in the same time as another novel, Night, which follows the story of a Jewish teenager. The…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel in the form of letters written by a 15-year-old freshman boy named Charlie to an anonymous friend whose identity is never revealed. Charlie is a very smart boy, some would even call him a genius, and is terrified of starting high school. This happens to be the reason he started writing the letters in which he describes his experiences and feelings. He starts by talking about his friend, Michael, who committed suicide and says how much he misses him and…