The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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…

The movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, depicts the main character, Charlie, as having one of the main mental disorders known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. The film itself was released in October of 2012 and was directed by Stephen Chbosky. I chose this movie to complete my report on because, as I watched the film and observed how Charlie was bullied by his peers and was unappreciated by his family because he was different, it tremendously pulled at my heartstrings. As a young…

The Reactionary Life The protagonist, Charlie from the novel Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky along with myself demonstrate the idea of how it is not about what life throws in our way, but rather how we react to what life throws that can truly define us as a person. Within the novel, we see Charlie dealing with a multitude of stressful and traumatic events. For example, when his best friend Michael committed suicide and when his favourite aunt Helen died in a car accident, it was…

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.…

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 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…

Friendship in The Perks of Being a Wallflower “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower displays Charlie’s various encounters with remarkable people who accept him for who he is and through his interactions with them, he discovers his true identity and abilities. Charlie is a shy freshman who encounters the same struggles that teenagers nowadays are facing, including the…

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,…