The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Authors of texts implement many techniques within their work to captivate their audiences, as well as allow the audience to experience life through another perspective besides their own. The 2012 film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, directed by Stephen Chbosky, is a coming of age film that follows the life of 15-year-old protagonist, Charlie. Charlie is a shy, observant teen who is struggling with his first year of high school, alongside coping with the suicide of his best friend Michael, his…

novel is one among many controversial novels that Charlie mentions reading. The protagonists of both novels experience the angst of adolescence and the feelings of being outsiders. Moreover, both novels portray the thoughts and feelings of teenage boys with realistic candor. As a result of this realism, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower has shared a similarity with the earlier novel in having become a target of people who wish to ban the novel because of its honest discussion of suicide and…

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…

In the movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie is a freshman in high school struggling with the stages of adolescence. Charlie fails to identify his own social identity and personality because he always wanted to be good enough, to be accepted, and to please. These actions also represent his strengths because Charlie has a big heart, is accepting of others, and is smart. These traits are challenged during his adolescent struggle to find his own sense of belonging and his own niche.…

The new Stephen Chbosky film, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, based on the novel of the same author and name seems like a much needed update of J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The film provides a fresh perspective on the many heavy topics such as death, mental illness, and growing up brought up in Salinger’s novel. However, although “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a more relatable and heartwarming version, The Catcher in the Rye still proves to be the most groundbreaking…

Stephen Chbosky beautifully illustrates the life of a teenager who struggled with his mental health, family problems and friends. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie developed from an outsider always pleasing others, to one who is more independent in his own actions and judgements. His relationship with Sam, growing participation in his own life and the secret about Aunt Helen directed his character transition at the end of the novel. Over the setting of his high school career, he…

Stephen Chbosky’s novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about Charlie, a boy who writes letters to an anonymous person explaining his troubles throughout his first year of high school. After Charlie’s friend commits suicide, Charlie must once again learn how to “participate”(74) in life. Alone and depressed, Charlie has no one to vent his problems to (besides the stranger he writes to). Until, he meets Patrick and his step-sister, Sam. They both take him under their wings and introduce him…

The “I-Hate-Book-Reports” Book Report: Part 1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower is more of a life story. In this book, Charlie writes journals, he talks about his day and tells us how he feels. How this book is written is very similar to what we teenagers would experience in everyday life, it’s very realistic. Charlie experiences drugs, sex, romance, and the typical things you would expect for a 16 year old kid; he was mostly excited to get his license. At points Charlies’ life is tragic; he’s…

him as he is developing into a young adult. It is difficult for Charlie to make friends or even talk to people in general conversations due to his lack of confidence. This is where a reader will generally develop sympathetic emotions for Charlie. Being as smart as he was, Charlie surely had a great amount of potential in terms of things he could accomplish. Unfortunately, his nonexistent confidence seemed to prevent some of these better things that could have played part in his life. Near the…

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ is an American coming-of-age, comedy- drama film. As advocated from the metaphorical title it promotes the message of being unique in a positive approach by reflecting on the issue of not changing your personality to fit in. A wallflower is acknowledged to sit on the wall alone, although it has its own individual beauty, it appears incongruous. This relates to the main character Charlie, a socially awkward outcast teen whom lived life from the sidelines, until…