The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Perks of Being a Wallflower (Pacing) Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) is a coming of age novel based around the complex lives of a group of teenagers in the 1990s. Chbosky left a lot of room for interpretation in the novel, as well as the film since he was the director. The film follows the novel closely, only leaving a handful of scenes out. Since the novel was written in epistolary form, matching all the letters to the film caused Chbosky to leave certain letters out. The letters…

protagonist form youth to adulthood. In other words, the character is coming of age in the book. Even though bildungsroman is not commonly known genre, it is used in literature because The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Outsiders, and The Giver are all examples of Bildungsroman. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a boy starting his freshman in high school. The boy named Charlie isn’t a very popular person, but he is geeky because he is very intelligent, shy, and introspective which…

Brooke English Mrs. Maples AP Psychology 24 July 2017 Perks of Being a Wallflower It is a rare phenomenon for the honest and unadulterated essence of high school suckage to be captured in a measly 224 pages. Stephen Chbosky undertakes the daunting task of capturing the pure truth and torture endured in high school in his modern masterpiece, Perks of Being a Wallflower. Chbosky mindfully depicts the monarchy and melancholy experienced in the melodrama that is high school by intermingling…

The movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower could be seen just as a story about surviving high school. Charlie, is counting down the days until he graduates. Charlie is an introvert; on the first day of school he had not made any friends. Charlie meets seniors, Sam and Patrick, step-siblings, at a high school football game; they become inseparable. Charlie opens up to his new friends about being hospitalized after his best friend committed suicide the year before. During the school year Charlie…

different letters written by Charlie. The author intended for this book to be this way so the reader knew it was from Charlie’s point of view. When Charlie writes his letters, it is his way of letting out all the pressure he is going through. Charlie, being able to write down what is happening to him, can realize it's not all a dream. It can be also inferred from the motif of the novel that Charlie is writing these letters because he needs someone to talk to and won’t have to know if the reader…

another. Out of the three essays chosen for this portfolio, the best example of this would lie in Classroom Wallflower, as that essay contains segments that explicitly focus on the critical examination of the way Perks of Being a Wallflower presents and explains a topic of our choice. In my case, my task was to study how Perks handles the subject of grief and then determining whether or not Perks did a good job in explaining what it was like to go through grief or if it provides readers with…

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is by no means a typical narrative. What do I mean by “not a typical narrative”? I mean that this book is full of crazy surprises that life will throw at you! I have learned quite a few life lessons throughout my time reading this novel. This novel is the best book out there to read, some might say they do not like it, only because they can relate little to much of what happens and it hits hard if it hits home. My life changed by reading “ The Perks of Being a…

but can be a foundation of something horrible and oblivious. In the book, “Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, Chbosky demonstrates how purity can turn into a monster and can make people unaware of the truth. Charlie and other main characters face this and has reveal their innocence in a peculiar manner. Innocence can be the blindfold of the real world. Innocence is shown in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” when Charlie realizes what had happened in his brother’s party in the past…

pressures, it is still hard to identify the pressures and how to resist it. It is often even harder to admit and to identify the bad influences in one's life. That is where myself and Charlie from “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” begin to have things in common. In “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Charlie has several moments where he is faced with peer pressure from his friends. Not all peer pressure is bad, we can often even be influenced by good things and people. It’s all based on what we…

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a book written by Stephen Chbosky about a young fifteen year old boy named Charlie who is beginning high school. It is originally set in 1991, but by the end of the book it is 1992. Initially, Charlie is nervous; he fears being alone because his friend and aunt passed away the year before. The story format is written like a letter because throughout his freshman year he writes to an unknown recipient who he looks up to. Charlie uses different names for people…