shy‚ awkward‚ or excluded at a party. Charlie is a wallflower and his friends recognize that too. According to Charlie’s friend Patrick‚ “He’s a wallflower… You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand” (Chbosky 37). In the book The Perks of being a wallflower Charlie the main character is more of an outcast than a lot of teenagers who are in high school. He’s a individual who needs someone to tell him and show him how to ‘participate’. So what does it mean to be a Wallflower? That’s
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considered a private subject‚ but Queer Studies includes studying sensitive topics which is a reason that makes Queer Studies an interesting discipline. When reading the Queer Studies chapter of Robert Parker’s text‚ How to Interpret Literature‚ I could not help but think of the novel and film of The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I find Perks to be groundbreaking in terms of representing the homophobic cultures that are found in America’s high schools. There are several instances where
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower The concept of high school popularity has been prevalent through many coming of age movies since the concept was created. Perks to Being a Wallflower (Chbosky‚ 2009) by Stephen Chbosky challenges the concept of high school popularity with finding oneself through the means of true friendship‚ personal goals‚ and most importantly finding what is important in life. Chbosky shows the audience the life of Charlie Kelmeckis and how he confronts being a troubled teenager
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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
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In high school‚ many teenagers change and develop throughout the 4 years. The novel‚ The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ shows examples of change and development through the main character‚ Charlie. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower is persistently regarded as a coming-of-age story‚ largely due to the changes that occur in Charlie in the course of his freshman year of high school.” (Dominic) In the beginning of the novel‚ Charlie enters high school with no friends and feeling like he can’t fit in with
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The perks of being a wallflower Source: Fictional novel Release date: 1st February 1999 Author: Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a set of fictional diary entries written by Stephen Chbosky. Charlie is the adolescent narrator who is in his tenth year of high school. Charlie decides to write anonymous letters to someone simply because he wants someone to listen and to not question his thoughts. The letters began after his only friend Michael committed suicide. Not belonging
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Name: _________________________ The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Reading/Presentation Schedule Directions: You will be assigned reading each night. For each date of reading‚ there will be 2-3 student presenters whose responsibility it is to know their assigned reading extremely well. As a presenter‚ you will be responsible for leading the discussion for your section for 10 minutes. (That does not mean you are talking for 10 minutes‚ but that you are asking questions and
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thigh‚ he becomes scared and tells her he is not ready. The next day‚ he experiences a flood of emotions and is bombarded by memories of his aunt Helen touching him the way that Sam did. In the epilogue‚ it emerges that Helen had sexually molested him when he was little‚ but his love for her caused him to repress these memories. Charlie is admitted to a mental hospital‚ and after his release‚ Sam and Patrick come to see him. Charlie comes to terms with his past saying "We don’t get to choose where we
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In my attempt to investigate the personality of Charlie in the process of growing‚ I utilise Carl Jung’s concept of psychological types of introversion personality as the conceptual framework of my study. By finding in Charlie being introverted in term of conscious and unconscious‚ this paper hopes to discover how Charlie’s past event made him suffers and it is a form that leads him to become introverted. In this chapter‚ Psychological types which is introversion personality in analytical psychology
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the symbol of the average teenager and their struggles to be accepted amongst others and amongst themselves. Author Stephen Chbosky exemplifies this teen struggle by depicting an introverted and self-deteriorating character named Charlie explains his experiences by writing a series of journal entries to an anonymous source. He begins to write shortly after the tragic suicide of his best friend Michael and explains that he anticipates his first year of Highschool
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