The Perks of Being a WallflowerThe Perks of Being a WallflowerThe Perks of Being A Wallflower was written in 1999 by Stephen Chbosky for the publishers of MTV Books. The particular edition I read has 256 pages and is considered an epistolary novel, meaning it is composed of documents such as letters. In this case the letters are written by the narrator to a friend. The story takes place in a Pittsburg suburb in the early 1990s. Charlie the protagonist is a freshman in high school and is struggling with his adolescence. He begins to write these anonymous letters to help him cope with his best friends recent suicide. The only good friends Charlie develops in the book are a brother and sister, Patrick and Sam. While some would say the antagonists in the book are only Charlie’s vices, such as drugs, abuse and self-hate, there are some less defined ones. Brad and Craig who were both in relationship with his best friends who hurt them which ultimately hurt Charlie.
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What’s the difference between the “wallflower” and the “viral” novels? It could be one of two. The viral novels have the idea of a girl being kidnapped and a monster. These stories are very popular with young girls in a good society where most of them are not interested in the girl or the monster. The one and only reason we find the two novels interesting is because they are the two main pillars of what makes any “viral” novel. Their plot is simple. It’s not much different from any popular fiction of any time period, though not completely different. The only problem is that these novels have the idea that the monsters are too great to allow themselves to feel like humans and don’t have the ability to overcome the monster. At the same time, the characters we encounter in these novels are different in one, but are still monsters. The story progresses by two separate characters, a man and a woman. Because each of these men has an important reason why they are being attacked, they fight to save each other.
What are we to make of these novelist characters? Why can’t our protagonists be treated with the same dignity as the characters in the popular novel? Why must we care who is the monster instead of how? Why do we care for each other when our love lives are being destroyed to make amends from the “perpetrated” war? Why have these women’s lives been destroyed by the monsters themselves?
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What is the point in letting this novel have a “novel” of its own? Let’s take the basic idea: that we all know we aren’t special enough for what we are, but we’re so special because we can be human or we can be monsters. This novel does not come with this kind of content. In order to tell our characters we need to be allowed to feel as human or human-like and to recognize them as our friends and those around us. Even in the “novel” novels the characters have a sort of character identity of their own, even though we sometimes feel weird around them when watching them in the movie. When we get to the end of this novel, I want my character to be human and to understand that we are the enemy and I am the monster. As long as we care about these characters, we deserve to be treated as human or we should care about other people. And of course not having our best friend or a sister hurt us. To us the monsters and their people look similar and we are monsters.
The characters in The Wallflower are almost all ordinary people living in a nice and relaxed neighborhood in Pittsburg. They spend their days together doing something or having dinner. There they are not able to see you. Their lives do not resemble anything we saw from their school or from the real world they grow up in. They live their lives without any hope and this reality is something that has nothing to do with us. We only know that in this life and our lives we have already accepted that we are human and people are monsters and when we have an opportunity to overcome the monsters our desires become part of a pattern and we are always at the mercy of the evil. In so doing, we live in the dream world; the reality that has no meaning and cannot be overcome.
We never know exactly what happened to Charlie, or if he’s found another way. We never know what his identity was, or if he is capable of being. We never know what happens to him. We only know this because he makes it his life to live and try out the normal life he had been hoping for and to give what he loves everything about himself, even if that’s not what he wants from anybody.
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What’s the difference between the “wallflower” and the “viral” novels? It could be one of two. The viral novels have the idea of a girl being kidnapped and a monster. These stories are very popular with young girls in a good society where most of them are not interested in the girl or the monster. The one and only reason we find the two novels interesting is because they are the two main pillars of what makes any “viral” novel. Their plot is simple. It’s not much different from any popular fiction of any time period, though not completely different. The only problem is that these novels have the idea that the monsters are too great to allow themselves to feel like humans and don’t have the ability to overcome the monster. At the same time, the characters we encounter in these novels are different in one, but are still monsters. The story progresses by two separate characters, a man and a woman. Because each of these men has an important reason why they are being attacked, they fight to save each other.
What are we to make of these novelist characters? Why can’t our protagonists be treated with the same dignity as the characters in the popular novel? Why must we care who is the monster instead of how? Why do we care for each other when our love lives are being destroyed to make amends from the “perpetrated” war? Why have these women’s lives been destroyed by the monsters themselves?
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What is the point in letting this novel have a “novel” of its own? Let’s take the basic idea: that we all know we aren’t special enough for what we are, but we’re so special because we can be human or we can be monsters. This novel does not come with this kind of content. In order to tell our characters we need to be allowed to feel as human or human-like and to recognize them as our friends and those around us. Even in the “novel” novels the characters have a sort of character identity of their own, even though we sometimes feel weird around them when watching them in the movie. When we get to the end of this novel, I want my character to be human and to understand that we are the enemy and I am the monster. As long as we care about these characters, we deserve to be treated as human or we should care about other people. And of course not having our best friend or a sister hurt us. To us the monsters and their people look similar and we are monsters.
The characters in The Wallflower are almost all ordinary people living in a nice and relaxed neighborhood in Pittsburg. They spend their days together doing something or having dinner. There they are not able to see you. Their lives do not resemble anything we saw from their school or from the real world they grow up in. They live their lives without any hope and this reality is something that has nothing to do with us. We only know that in this life and our lives we have already accepted that we are human and people are monsters and when we have an opportunity to overcome the monsters our desires become part of a pattern and we are always at the mercy of the evil. In so doing, we live in the dream world; the reality that has no meaning and cannot be overcome.
We never know exactly what happened to Charlie, or if he’s found another way. We never know what his identity was, or if he is capable of being. We never know what happens to him. We only know this because he makes it his life to live and try out the normal life he had been hoping for and to give what he loves everything about himself, even if that’s not what he wants from anybody.
Upon making friends with Sam and Pat he is introduced into a world of drinking, drug experimentation, sex and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is modern day novel of a “messed of teenager” like in The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the novel, Charlie manages his depression but is hunted by faint realization of his beloved late Aunt Helen, being kissed by his homosexual friend and helping his sister through an abortion. Progressively in the book Charlie reads and writes papers on books that his English assigns him outside of class, because he sees that Charlie is a bright boy with some inner troubles. This is how Charlie begins to open up. Many allusions are made to others books, such as, To Kill a Mockingbird, This Side of Paradise and On The Road. The reader would find that Charlie lives his life