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
experiences and challenges of an outsider are unique and often relevant to the distinctive context an outsider is in. The novel, Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and the film, “The Piano,” by Jane Campion, both explore unique experiences such as moving countries and challenges such as relationships, struggling to grow up, and societal barriers. Charlie in Perks is portrayed as a social outsider in his school setting. Due to his psychological trauma, he is isolated from his peers and his
teenager Holden Caulfield goes on a quest, unknowingly, for self-knowledge. Holden narrates his journey from the future where he does not specify where he is, but it is shared he is seeing a psychologist and receives visitor, therefore is most likely in some sort of treatment center. From the start of the novel, Holden is a poor student with no will or determination to change his ways. He has been kicked out of three-going-on-four schools due to inadequate grades, thus disappointing his parents and teachers
imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” Music can inspire people to change and move on in life for the better, just as Charlie does for Patrick, his best friend in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky is about Charlie, the main, 14 year old protagonist, writing a series of letters to an anonymous friend. In his letters, Charlie discusses incidents and information about his closest friend, Patrick, a homosexual senior
In Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” we are first introduced to Charlie, a shy boy who is beginning his freshman year in high school. Shortly after school begins, Charlie makes two upperclassmen friends, Sam and Patrick. Befriending these two people open up a different world for Charlie. Charlie is introduced to many new things in this movie, the most important being literature, music, relationships, love, and sexuality. Experiencing these new things shape him into a different
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
American literature is often perceived by students as dull, lifeless and a monumental waste of time. If a reader of American literature does not comprehend the inter-meanings and themes of these novels, this specific literature will not change or enlighten their perspectives on American history and the conflicts that still exist in the present day. Authors reflect on personal experiences and the world as they write novels that depict the future of American lives, their fears of reality and problems