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
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 is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky takes us through the journey of a fifteen year old teenager named Charlie. He is a wallflower, a term used to describe someone who is often reserved and excluded at parties. He is normally very quiet although he observes things that happen in his life everyday very carefully, but chooses to only write them down, to a stranger who he believes is very nice. The book begins when Charlie just starts his freshman year in high school and also