Bildungsroman In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Bildungsroman is a term which denotes a novel of self-development through education and formation within its coming-of-age. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Stephen Chbosky’s the Perks of Being a Wallflower both depict a main character that has a troubling and lonely life due to sudden changes in life which focuses on how the character can mentally and physically cope with it.
The themes that are depicted in the novel include Alienation as a form of self-protection as Holden continually attempts to find his way around the world in which he doesn’t belong in and feels trapped on the “other side” of life quoted by Mr Spencer who is Holden’s teacher. In the beginning of the novel, Holden is perceived as a lonely person who doesn’t fit …show more content…
With the use of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead which is an influential novel that advocates individualism and is warned by his Mentor that he must filter the book. This is evident when Charlie began a relationship with Mary Elizabeth however Sam, who is his close friend, tells him if he had acted on his feelings towards her, things could have been different between them. In the novel, each of the character represents a facet of Charlie’s personality as he admires to be like Sam though he likes Patrick’s sharp wit. The book is a series of letters that is sent to a “friend” of Charlie’s which is written in first person narrative. When Charlie's life has drama in it, it is almost impossible to put down the book. The letters are for expressing his ideas so he doesn’t take effective use of creative language and finds it pointless writing words that one wouldn't even understand as opposed to his teacher criticising for writing run on sentences. Charlie is a timid and introverted character who had bad things happen with the death of his best friend committing suicide and his aunt getting hit by a car and being an outcast at school are only a fraction of “the bad things”. He was a socially awkward person and didn’t take part in anything around him and Charlie is an extremely emotional person because he was quite traumatised due
The themes that are depicted in the novel include Alienation as a form of self-protection as Holden continually attempts to find his way around the world in which he doesn’t belong in and feels trapped on the “other side” of life quoted by Mr Spencer who is Holden’s teacher. In the beginning of the novel, Holden is perceived as a lonely person who doesn’t fit …show more content…
With the use of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead which is an influential novel that advocates individualism and is warned by his Mentor that he must filter the book. This is evident when Charlie began a relationship with Mary Elizabeth however Sam, who is his close friend, tells him if he had acted on his feelings towards her, things could have been different between them. In the novel, each of the character represents a facet of Charlie’s personality as he admires to be like Sam though he likes Patrick’s sharp wit. The book is a series of letters that is sent to a “friend” of Charlie’s which is written in first person narrative. When Charlie's life has drama in it, it is almost impossible to put down the book. The letters are for expressing his ideas so he doesn’t take effective use of creative language and finds it pointless writing words that one wouldn't even understand as opposed to his teacher criticising for writing run on sentences. Charlie is a timid and introverted character who had bad things happen with the death of his best friend committing suicide and his aunt getting hit by a car and being an outcast at school are only a fraction of “the bad things”. He was a socially awkward person and didn’t take part in anything around him and Charlie is an extremely emotional person because he was quite traumatised due