The Perks of Being a Wallflower

billion people, but it continues to be perceived as an illegitimate, or a phase they will outgrow. LGBTQ students are subject to abuse when there is a lack of support from peers, as shown in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Imagine walking through school and noticing a small…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower… A Challenged Book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a challenged book about a teenage boy named Charlie who overcomes his struggles to survive throughout High School. Charlie is not like other boys and girls. He talks to people, listens to music and studies for school like no other ordinary teenager would ever do. He comes across making new friends and tells his story of all the chaos and unusual things happening during his young life. While…

yet people are still trying to find a definition for it. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines humanity as the “quality or state of being human or humane” or just the “human race”. But why are humans called a race and not just a species ? What puts humans and animals apart? Stephen Chbosky (different word for ‘uses’) his book The Perks of Being a Wallflower to show loss and betrayal and how it impacts a person's emotions. Charlie, main character of the book has a harsh awakening when he…

We’ll do this with two words. Slow and fading. The opening shot will begin with a blank canvas, the title Perks of Being a Wallflower appears letter by letter through the motions of a typewriter, alluding to Charlie and his signature equipment. Charlie’s words play over with his genuinely dark quote, “there is so much pain, I don’t know how to not notice it...” There is no music, so we may be able to detect and place an emphasis on the slight tremors and desolation in his voice. An impression is…

Charlie's interactions between his friends and his mental instabilities. As critics say, “Overall, by keeping all of the important moments in Charlie’s timeline and showing us more about our favorite side characters onscreen, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wildflower is a wildly successful film, capturing the ache and grandeur of growing up in the suburbs in the early nineties perfectly” (www.cinemablend.com). Watching the film is a key aspect of fully understanding and interpreting what…

Twelfth birthday by Rachel Hadas, Ursula at Parakakariki by Fiona Farel, and the Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. At the start of the poem, Twelfth birthday, the mother is pregnant with her daughter, she is lying down wondering whether she could could read her daughter's mind, “I could (inconceivable) follow your swift thoughts into their blue immersion even now”. At this…

If you, like me, have read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, you can hopefully agree when I say that it changed my life. And while the story has a great impact, it doesn’t mean the book itself is all fun and games. The main character, Charlie, struggles between the fine line of sadness and depression, while navigating the terrifying and foreign aspects of being a high schooler. Even though I’m technically not a high-schooler yet, some issues in this book are already ones that so many people in…

The Catcher in The Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower Compare/Contrast Essay I am going to being comparing and contrasting The Catcher in The Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.In particular, I will be focusing on Holden from The Catcher in The Rye and Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower. One thing that is also similar is that they have a sister albeit, Charlie’s is older. Another thing is that both of these stories take place in the 20th century. But, Charlie’s takes place…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower has themes of mental illness, drug abuse, and starting romantic relationships. All of these themes easily apply to today’s society. This novel is about young Charlie beginning high school with no friends, because his friend Micheal committed suicide during their eighth grade year. Being nervous before entering high school is a topic that applies to many people, especially in a society that is becoming more and more conscious of the appearance of others. Charlie…

couple of weeks that I was experiencing wasn’t going how I had planned it to be, I was struggling in my classes and I didn’t have anyone to talk to at lunch or in between classes. That was until one day when I came across the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, in which I felt like I was no longer alone or at least the only one who felt this way. Chbosky describes the events that Charlie, the main character, encounters from as he develops from child to adolescent, in which…