The Perks of Being a Wallflower represents the teenage privelgded struggle of accepting who you are in the most difficult of situations‚ and demonstrates the importance of friendship in finding yourself and your happiness. Without the friendship of Sam and Patrick‚ Charlie would have never been able to surpass his depression and the problems that follow with it. For example‚ when Charlie goes out with Patrick and Sam for the night he describes‚ “In the silence‚ I remembered this one time that I never
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“The Perks of being a Wallflower” is a novel written by Stephen Chbosky who talks about the high school life of a boy with some mental issues caused by the death of his best friend and his aunt. The narrator Charlie is an introverted and sensitive boy who is afraid of talking to others in high school. After meeting Sam‚ Patrick and their friends‚ Charlie made friends with them and enjoyed his high school time. With the help of his friends‚ Charlie gradually overcame his fear and shyness. His best
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Throughout the movie‚ The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ Charlie and the rest of the characters display many examples of cognitive transitions. Most of the characters portrayed in this film are in their formal operations stage of cognitive development‚ as these characters range from early adolescence to young adults (Steinberg‚ 2017‚ p. 61). On Charlie’s first day of high school he believes his fellow students are an imaginary audience that are watching and evaluating his actions (p. 58). Charlie tries
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overlooks his morals and ethics and does whatever it takes to become king. He is obviously thinking only of himself and isn’t afraid to hurt people that get in his way. In contrast‚ another character that had big ambitions was Charlie in Perks of Being a Wallflower. One of his desire throughout a lot of the book was to make sure his friends were happy. For example‚ during Christmas Charlie cuts himself off from the group‚ his only support system‚ because he kissed Sam rather than Mary Elizabeth.When
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This is especially the case if you are gay. The treatment of gay characters in movies has always been a touchy subject. Some are treated equally the same as everyone else‚ while others are given negative stereotypes or even bullied. In The Perks of Being A Wallflower‚ directed by Stephen Chbosky‚ Patrick is openly gay to his close friends‚ but has to conceal his relationship with Brad‚ causing Patrick to have to hide his own reality and true self. Throughout the film‚ Patrick deals with issues relating
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“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dog And that’s what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mother and father kissed a lot And the girl
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Charlie is the protagonist of Stephen Chbosky’s "The Perks of Being A Wallflower." Charlie is a young teenager. At fifteen‚ he is making the transition from middle school to high school. Charlie has had ongoing psychological issues since he was a young child. The source of his emotional distress is not clear to the reader or to Charlie himself. Charlie tells his story through a series of letters to an anonymous source who he does not know but who he heard was kind and understanding and didn’t "sleep
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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
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The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Knowledge Charlie‚ Sam‚ and Patrick are the main characters. Sam and Patrick are step-siblings and Charlie is their younger friend that they take under their wings. The story takes place in or around Pittsburgh‚ PA in 1991 and 1992. The places the characters experience are real places (Charlie’s brother going to Penn State‚ the parks they hang around) and the years are obvious because of the journal entries. One of the events that took place that
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There was numerous social issue in the Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ there were alcoholism‚ domestic abuse‚ sexism‚ and homophobia. These issues affected the protagonist (Charlie Kelmeckis) and another main character in the novel. The main social issue that affected Charlie the most is alcoholism and drug abuse. "I can’t do that anymore. I’m sorry. It’s Okay Charlie. Just go to sleep. Sam said. But I wasn’t talking to Sam anymore. I was talking to someone else” (Chbosky 203). At this moment charlie
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