Stephen Chbosky

Todd Anderson is a young boy that goes to an all boy’s privet school called Welton Academy as well as a member of a student made club called the Dead Poets Society. Todd Anderson is a new bee at Welton; he has a very high expectation set for him due to his older brother being an excellent student as well as a horror student. Anderson does have some issues at first with friend that he will have to make at his new school and has a very shy and scared personality, which doesn’t know make it better…

Change is a homograph of sorts because although it is always spelled the same, it has different meanings for different people. For some, change is a transformation in a positive direction whilst for others it invokes some kind of loss or misery. Based upon an individual’s perspective, he or she will either be accepting or unaccepting of change. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye addresses loss as a change that should never be accepted due to the pain it entails. This is evident through…

“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor Rodriguez, and his first day of school in seventh grade. It is realistic-fiction short story. The people/children that might like this short story are people that don’t like to change, people in seventh grade, or people who have just started a new school year and feel uncomfortable. This particular short story is a really good piece for the genre because of the way it expresses the feeling of a seventh grader. It is told in a third person…

When I found out we were going to be reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in class I was excited. For many years, I considered Perks to be my favorite book, and I had reread it during different stages in my life. Every time I reread the book I somehow always ended up feeling like I related to Charlie more and more. Rereading the book also brought back a lot of memories to me, the first time I read the book was in 7th grade and at the time I was a bit of a loner, I didn’t talk much and I…

David Sedaris' essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day" gives a look into the struggles of a man attending a French class, in France, in his early forties. Well past the "normal" age of a student. It is a well written account about the ups and downs associated with learning a new language, especially in a foreign land. Even though the essay is written about a man taking a class, the lessons learned from it can be applied to anyone who is thinking about go after their goals. No matter what stage of life…

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…

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…

My first book for ABU was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In this book it starts out with a fifteen year old boy named Charlie who writes about his life in a letter format. In the beginning of the book Charlie talks about the first year of high school and his friend Michael who went suicide. He talks about how much he misses Michael and he was confused on why he didn’t tell him that he was depressed. Then he describes his family. In his family Charlie has a sister, a brother, a mother, a…

Movie Review: Wonder Directed by Stephen Chbosky, the movie adaptation of Wonder, based on R.J. Palacios children’s novel, is a heartwarming family drama that centers around a young boy living with Treacher Collins syndrome. August Pullman had been home-schooled his whole life by his parents who wanted to protect him from the cruelty of the real world. The movie follows Augusts first experience being in school and proving to his classmates that he is just like them, despite his physical…

Perspectives Stephen Chbosky once said, “We accept the love we think we deserve.” I have always thought of myself as stubborn and childish. I’m not able to trust people as much when they mess up, I don’t take commands very well or I don’t like to do things other people tell me because I think I can do it on my own. I also act very childish, like stupid little kiddy things amuse me and in a lot of situations, I don’t act mature or take things seriously. Many people have always and will always…