The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ written by american novelist Stephen Chbosky‚ is a truly moving coming-of-age story delving into the underground dynamics of a suburban Pittsburgh society during the early 90’s. The Perks of Being a Wallflower illustrates the unchartered world of sex‚ drugs‚ first dates and mix tapes and gives a truly honest insight into the vast spectrum of tees; from sugar and spice to saucy and suicidal. Main character‚ Charlie Kelmeckis‚ who is starting his first year as a high
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Amanda Prado -- Summer Reading Journal "The Perks of being a Wallflower"‚ by Stephen Chobsky In "The Perks..." there are a variety of personalities portrayed through the book. Charlie being the "wallflower" of the title‚ was different from most of the other students at his high school. He understood what most didn ’t and didn ’t judge anyone for who they are or what they were like; on the contrary‚ he actually thought about and sometimes asked why they decided to be that way‚ and there was
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1.) Love - In ’The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ love is shown in many different ways: the love between friends‚ between family members and between a teenager and his first big crush. Feelings‚ and how to express them‚ are confusing for anyone‚ but Charlie has an exceptionally difficult time with it. 2.) Friendship - I really liked how friendship plays an important part of Charlie’s life. His only friend Michael had committed suicide and Charlie was still coping with the loss of his friend‚ but when
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The abusive theme of Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky show how it doesn’t allow Charlie to make friends. Here on this paper‚ I’ll be describe to you why the author wrote this and the impact on abuse it puts up. The abuse of the story is showing the average high school life. It’s not all happy times and fairy tales‚ so that is very reasonable of the abuse. The physical abuse of Perks is not a major thing in the book but it is abuse nonetheless. The physical abuse is during the time
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making process that we use every day‚ whether it be something as simple as choosing what to wear or as complex as making life altering choices‚ one of which is date rape. If someone goes on a date that does not mean that they want to have sex with you‚ being on a date does not give you consent to have sex with the other individual. Because a person must give their verbal consent and they should have the choice whether or not they want to proceed with any act under their own will. The most important thing
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Reading log Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Author: Stephen Chbosky Text type: Novel The novel ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ written by Stephen Chbosky tells the story of Charlie through his perspective of personal letters that he writes to an unknown friend. Chbosky writes about the issues one deals with in life such as finding out and accepting who you are and where you belong in the world. Charlie is an emotional character that has gone through difficult experiences and during
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Effect of the Past in the Present in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of being a Wallflower L.Lakshmi M.Phil. Research Scholar Department of English Alagappa University Karaikudi Literature is an amalgam of social issues which always highlight the problem of identity crisis‚ gender discrimination‚ child sexual abuse‚ familial struggles‚ alienation and so on. The prevailing crisis in contemporary period is the problems of adolescence which affect the progress of adults and humankind. It is a preventable
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scrutiny of Ivan Sen’s film ‘Beneath Clouds’ and Stephen Chbosky’s ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ we begin to see aspects of the affiliation between the internal journey and alternate journeys. Today‚ ladies and gentlemen I argue that the inner journey is the central and pinnacle of all conceived journeys‚ that all other journeys‚ work to shape and determine the fundamental and paramount internal journey. The idea of the inner journey being moulded by other journeys is immediately noticeable through the
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Is The Perks of Being a Wallflower a Tragedy? To begin‚ the quote “The World is full of suffering‚ but it is also full of the overcoming of it” (itsworthquoting.com‚ 2013) by Hellen Keller has a strong meaning to encourage individuals to stand strong when a tragedy appears in life. In the novel‚ “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky the main character Charlie faces many tragedies in his developing years of life such as the self-inflicted death of his best friend Michael‚ the death
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shouldn’t be sad and to sleep it off. Thankfully pop-culture is breaking down this taboo wall and teaching our teenagers about depression and how to spot and handle it. One example of this is in Stephen Chbosky’s book and movie adaptation‚ The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ where he expresses a teenager’s struggle with depression through Charlie‚ the protagonist. Although the book focuses and explains Charlie’s mental workings‚ the movie portrays a realistic depiction of depression from an outsider view while
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