(: The perks of being a wallflower :)

Charlie!

Charlie is a 15 year old boy who is a high-school freshman. At the beginning of the novel Charlie is a really wallflower, because Michael, the only friend he has, make suicide and now he is alone on the new school. So when the story begins he is really shy and unpopular. Charlie encounters the same problems that many kids have in a new school. How to find friends? Charlie starts to write letters about his life and within all his problems. He is a really emotional person and cries a lot, sometimes without any reason. His biggest hobby is reading books which he gets from his favourite teacher Bill. Charlie has a big connection to Bill and he can talk a lot with him and not only about school. When Charlie meets Sam and Patrick, he begins to see how beautiful it can be to have friends and so Charlie’s life changes a lot. He has his first girlfriend, Mary Elizabeth, but in reality he loves Sam. He starts to smoke and takes drugs and he has his first experience with sex. So Charlie helds his friends in high regard and he would do everything for them but sometimes he does too much, because he thinks that he has to do these things to keep them. Charlie is a great listener when his friends have problems with something. He is very glad to have friends like Sam and Patrick because they make his live better and he feels that he belong to somewhere and so he does everything for them.

Review

Stephen Chbosky is the author of “The perks of being a wallflower” and he is born in 1970. To date this is his only novel and this is a story about what it's like to grow up in high school.

It is about Charlie, a high-school freshman, who is pretty emotional and describes in letters his life and all the other things which are involved with growing up. Being a teenager is not always easy and this is also true for Charlie. Within his letters, we come to learn of the boy's struggle with the loss of a friend, as well the loss of his aunt Helen, his only friends at this moment. So he is very shy and unpopular and the pupils call him a wallflower. Later he makes friends with two seniors named Patrick and Sam and they teach him a lot because Charlie is really inexperience. But although Charlie recognises how beautiful it is to have such wonderful friends, he also confronts with a lot of problems. He has his first experience with girls, sex and drugs as a young teenager. Through the letters he writes, we find exactly out, which feelings Charlie has in such experiences and he only needs someone who listens and understands him.

“The perks of being a wallflower” is now one of my favourite books because the story of this teenager who is confronted with such problems makes me contemplative. It is such a lovely book and I only can recommend this book to everyone because it is so brilliant.