Charlie Kemeckis Monologue

Charlie Kelmeckis, is an introverted and intellectually gifted teenager who is just starting his freshman year of highschool all alone. Then two seniors, Sam and Patrick, help him learn how to participate in life instead of watching others live it for him. He quickly is given the gift of true friendship, love, music and so much more, while a young english teacher and aspiring playwright helps him develop his skills as a writer. Though as all things that come up must go down, as his new friends start preparing for college, the problems he had buried all along threaten to shatter his newfound love for life.

Metaphor:
“‘He’s a wallflower.’ And Bob really nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And I started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn’t let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. ‘You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand’”
And the newspaper tycoon says that the architect is a very cold man. The architect replies that if the boat were sinking, and there was only room in the lifeboat for one person, he would gladly give up his life for the newspaper tycoon. And then he says something like this…
‘I would die for you. But I won’t live for you’’ (Chbosky 169).

This is an allusion to a conversation between two characters in The Fountainhead a novel by Ayn Rand.

Simile:
“It was one of those days that I didn’t mind going to school because the weather was so pretty. The sky was overcast with clouds, and the air felt like a warm bath. I don’t think I ever felt this clean before” (Chbosky 42).

Situational Irony:
“The kids started calling him Patty when his real name is Patrick. And “Nothing” told these kids, ‘Listen, you either call me Patrick, or you call me nothing.’ So, the kids started calling him ‘Nothing.’ And the name just stuck” (Chbosky