The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Many teens now a days may feel like they don't have love or support from their parents or friends, which may cause them to do drastic things. In the fictional novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, the main character Charlie does not receive much love at home and has a lack of social interaction with his family. Because of the lack of interaction and affection, Charlie has a hard time growing up and making the right decisions for himself. Although Charlie does not receive…

Defying the Norm: The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Other Teen Movies Prom queens and football jocks – these are ubiquitous characters that fill teen movies in Hollywood, at least according to author David Denby in his 1999 New Yorker article “High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies.” Denby claims that the genre duplicates formulaic patterns, filled with the proliferation of stereotypical characters, the harbored animosity against other teens, and a setting free of apprehension about…

Perks of being a Wallflower is a novel that was published in 1999 and adapted into a screenplay in 2012. Both the book and the movie have a huge cult following, including yours truly. I originally read this book in middle school and it honestly changed my life. It was the first book I connected with so strongly. When the movie was announced, I was thrilled. My best friend and I drove about an hour away to a specific theater to see the movie during its small release. Fortunately, the movie did…

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a book that many parents consider to be inappropriate for their children to be reading. It is no question that this book contains graphic material, but it also has many positive messages. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” should not be removed from classrooms because banning this book would lead to many other issues in the classroom, the book deals with confronting issues and is relevant to high school students, and many other classic books in the classroom…

Comparing The Perks of Being a Wallflower to The Catcher in the Rye Personal suffering and the ability to manage the expectations of school and life are highly prevalent and recurring themes throughout The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Catcher in the Rye, but the ways that the main characters cope with these issues are very different. Both Charlie and Holden come from privileged backgrounds. And, both characters deal with very tragic events while they struggle to find a way to fit in.…

This Summer, I decided to read the The Color Purple by Alice Walker, a novel about the life of African-American woman in a post-slavery society based in the South, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, a book about a socially isolated high-schooler who tries to navigate through life by experiencing different emotions with a new set of friends. When choosing from an array of book collections, it definitely took me some time to pick two to read. The criteria that these books…

Also Victor is deciding his friend about how he looks. After his friend shows him how to scowl he thinks it is not him. This shows Victor needs to stop being subjective towards people.The author states, “‘..., Victor tried scowling. He felt foolish, until out of the corner of his eye he saw a girl looking at him.”’ (Soto 23) This shows how Victor instead of deciding what Micheal (his friend) did he tested…

A wallflower is defined as a “person who is shy or unpopular and who stands or sits apart from other people” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Charlie, the main character, is termed a “wallflower” in Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The novel portrays the transition from middle school to high school. But for Charlie, there are underlying issues that many high school students don’t have to face. He greatly struggles with the transition into high school, but later meets friends who…

shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.” This quote is from a novel titled The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. This displays the main character’s view on growing up. A frequent theme in American culture is coming of age, which is a young person’s journey from childhood to adulthood. This theme is present in many American…

Identity is the concept of how an individual is perceived socially or culturally. Negativity can impact one’s identity through influences and experiences. Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro as well as Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of being a Wallflower both indicate how negativity impacts the characters’ sense of identity through negative experiences. This idea has been demonstrated through two characters such as Keller and Charlie. Keller is identified as a titular maestro who isolates himself from Europe…