The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a high school freshman named Charlie, who is struggling with his best friend’s suicide and inner loneliness. He begins to write letters to a stranger that he has never met, but knows is a good person and will listen to what he is saying. Charlie has a very large interest in writing and also has a passion for reading. So much so that his English teacher gives him extra assignments. He meets what will become his two best friends at a football game, Sam and Patrick. Charlie instantly has a crush on Sam, but she claims she is too old for him and he shouldn’t waste his time. Sam and Patrick quickly integrate Charlie into their friend group, and Charlie learns what it is like to have friends again. The two decide
to take Charlie to a party one Friday night, and Charlie accidentally gets stoned off of pot brownies. He also walks in on Patrick kissing Brad, the quarterback of the football team. Patrick tells Charlie that Brad doesn’t want anyone to know, and he agrees not to say anything about it.
The trio continues to make appearances parties and Charlie begins drinking and smoking on a daily basis. Charlie’s love for Sam also grows, with the more time they spend with one another. She was actually Charlie's first kiss, saying that she wanted his to be with someone he really loved. Likewise, Sam starts dating an older man named Craig. Charlie isn’t affected, saying that he only wants her to be happy. Charlie also gets his first girlfriend, named Mary-Elizabeth. He realizes he doesn’t really like her, but he just has a thing for going with the flow and letting things happen. The relationship doesn’t end well, When Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room at a party. He chooses to kiss Sam over his girlfriend, putting a rift in the friendship. Patrick asks Charlie to stay away for a while and let the tension ease. With that his mental health gets worse without seeing his friends. He’s up to smoking ten cigarettes a day which causes him to get hooked on weed. Eventually he ends up having to go to the hospital because he has a mental breakdown and ends up laying in the snow in some random person's
yard. Charlie seems to redeems himself with Patrick when he stands up to Brad in the cafeteria, which ends in a nasty fight. Charlie and Patrick increasingly spend more and more time with each other and he slowly becomes associated with his old friends again. As this happens his drug and alcohol addiction only gets worse, especially with the school year coming to an end. Charlie sort of ends up with Sam, because it is revealed that her boyfriend, Craig, was cheating on her with multiple girls. With graduation, Sam, Patrick, and the rest of his friends are leaving for college, Charlie becomes more anxious and ends up spending most of the summer in a mental hospital after a major breakdown. He then decides to stop writing letters and participate more in his life.