Perks Of Being A Wallflower Essay
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky was born in 1970. He wrote the screenplay for the film Rent. As a teenager Stephen loved reading classics such as “The Catcher in the Rye” and other books of the horror & fantasy blend. Tennessee Williams was his favorite author. In 1992 he graduated from the University of Southern California’s screenwriting program. Stephen currently lives in California & is an active gay rights supporter.
This teenage boy who calls himself Charlie, writes an anonymous person about his life and what is going on with it, sort of like a journal. Charlie is starting high school, and realizing all of the new pressures that come with being a teenager. Charlie goes through many topics found with being a teenager, such as sexuality, masturbation, drugs, alcohol, friends, …show more content…
It really captures how the teenage life is felt, and how spontaneous and beautiful life can be in any time. As Charlie says “feel infinite”, he means that you feel as if everything is perfect, everything is right, and you are living in the present. As the author tried to capture many themes of growing up and the teenager’s problems that they go through, the author really did a great job, and in this quote, it captures what high school is like, and how it seems as if everything matters, but really it is saying that friends, family dramas, first dates, sex, and drugs are really at its peak during high school, and life gets simpler.
“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not want to be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” -
Stephen Chbosky was born in 1970. He wrote the screenplay for the film Rent. As a teenager Stephen loved reading classics such as “The Catcher in the Rye” and other books of the horror & fantasy blend. Tennessee Williams was his favorite author. In 1992 he graduated from the University of Southern California’s screenwriting program. Stephen currently lives in California & is an active gay rights supporter.
This teenage boy who calls himself Charlie, writes an anonymous person about his life and what is going on with it, sort of like a journal. Charlie is starting high school, and realizing all of the new pressures that come with being a teenager. Charlie goes through many topics found with being a teenager, such as sexuality, masturbation, drugs, alcohol, friends, …show more content…
It really captures how the teenage life is felt, and how spontaneous and beautiful life can be in any time. As Charlie says “feel infinite”, he means that you feel as if everything is perfect, everything is right, and you are living in the present. As the author tried to capture many themes of growing up and the teenager’s problems that they go through, the author really did a great job, and in this quote, it captures what high school is like, and how it seems as if everything matters, but really it is saying that friends, family dramas, first dates, sex, and drugs are really at its peak during high school, and life gets simpler.
“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not want to be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” -