Book Report Part 2:The Perks of Being a Wallflower Quote One: “I'm starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read and just like the tape of songs, it's amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand.They are all my favorites.All of them.” P.253 When Charlie receives books from his English teacher Bill,he states, ““I'm starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read and just like the tape of songs, it's amazing to hold each of them in the palm
Wallflower: A person who has no one to dance with or who feels shy, awkward, or excluded at a party. Charlie is a wallflower and his friends recognize that too. According to Charlie’s friend Patrick, “He’s a wallflower… You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand” (Chbosky 37). In the book The Perks of being a wallflower Charlie the main character is more of an outcast than a lot of teenagers who are in high school. He’s a individual who needs someone to tell him and show him how
Passage Analysis This passage of the book is the very beginning of the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The entire book is introduced in this one passage, and this introduction says a lot about the book already. The entire story is written in a series of letters written by Charlie who serves as the narrator of the book. This passage tells a lot about the main character, Charlie, already. As evident from the passage, you can tell that he is grateful for the little things he
Compare and Contrass Holden is criticizing phoniness while Charlie becomes phony through the book. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden mainly talks about how people are phony, how they become phony and how this affects their education, desire of learning, approach next to the girls and behavior next to people. However, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower Charlie becomes an example for the message of The Catcher in The Rye with the change in his educational thoughts and behaviors. “An inferiority complex
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” written by the talented Stephen Chbosky takes his readers on a journey through a teenage boys mind. The novel is narrated by a teenage boy who goes by the name ‘Charlie’ even though that isn’t his actual name. It is set in the early 1990’s during Charlie’s freshman year of high school. Charlie is, in a word, special. In letters to his "Friend," Charlie records his life as a high school freshman, transforming the dull into the miraculous with heart breaking honesty
The film adaption of the novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, does a fair job impersonating the life of an adolescent in his high school life through letters. Charlie, the protagonist and the narrator of the story, is a very shy, introverted , sorrowful freshman intimidated by his new school, new friends, new teachers. Making friends has always been very difficult to him: he is a wallflower watching life from aside. He writes letters to an imaginary friend and he confesses him much of his life
novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is about a teenage boy, Charlie, who is very introverted due to the loss of his best friend and struggles to find friends in high school. When a group of seniors befriend Charlie, he starts to experience the real world and becomes more outgoing. The novel demonstrates the theme of active participation by showing the changes and improvements in his life after he starts to explore new things. When Charlie starts to actively participate
Adult books don’t read them! Just leave them alone! The Authors of those books worked so hard to write them and to get them published, and then some ignorant person comes and bans they’re book! Such good work gone to waste. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is, in my opinion, an awesome movie! I did not read the book, but I found out that it got banned. According to commensensemedia.org it is rated 16+, which Is basically considered Young Adult. It got banned