Perks Of Being A Wallflower Research Paper

Readers know Perks of Being a Wallflower to be a coming of age novel. Stephen Chbosky’s novel follows the story of Charlie, who “In a series of letters addressed to an anonymous reader,. . . describes the disorientation of losing a friend to suicide, the ways high school can feel like an experiment in isolation, and, at the heart of the story, his bond with older students Sam and her stepbrother, Patrick” (Hare). With every event he encountered, Charlie and the audience of the novel discover that one can’t travel through life without friends. Once Charlie met Sam and Patrick, and their group of friends, he learned that friendship is the key factor he needed to survive his freshman year; “. . . he finds his tribe and then himself” (Dargis).