Essay On The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Silver Linings Playbook

A few days ago, I was finally able to watch the long-awaited movie adaptation of Stephan Chbosky’s epistolary novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The movie follows awkward introvert Charlie Kelmeckis as he copes with the suicide of his best friend, starting high school, his first love, and his raging mental illness while struggling to find a group of friends with which he belongs.

Movies are constantly created by producers and writers to convey a particular meaning to their audience they are reaching out too. The meaning can be interpreted in several ways. For example, one can understand the meaning that was intended by the creators, or it could be an individual’s own understanding of a storyline in the movie. As a movie can be viewed through different perspectives, a dominant male named Louis Althusser created the theory of Interpellation and the Role of ISAs and RSAs to help further understand movies. Althusser’s theory explains that people in power will remain in power and others will be controlled by those in power (Hartt-Fournier, Lecture 2). Furthermore, the role of ISA, known as the Ideological State

     I think that The Perks of Being a Wallflower is exceptional in its class of literary works mainly because Chbosky chose to push the limits of teen fiction. Most young adult writers are afraid to further explore the world of drugs, sexuality, and depression in too much detail. What most writers fail to realize is that high school vividly explains all those things. Young readers are ready for a book that seems to understand that too. Chobosky did a wonderful job at developing and defining each character. He made them seem real, which helps readers relate. Although many may think that the number of controversial issues discussed in the book makes it negative, the book is really about finding yourself in the midst of chaos and peer pressure. Charlie eventually

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel written by American novelist Stephen Chbosky set in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in the 1990's (Wikipedia, 2012). It follows the life of a teenage boy named Charlie.

We defined and described depression in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it is often thought by people to have been exaggerated. However, many people have suffered from depression and it’s important to know how it affects people in real life. Deacon Ph.D. (2015) is a retired mental health nurse who suffers from depression and in her article, “Personal Experience: Being Depressed Is Worse than Having Advanced Cancer,” she exclaims her pains which, “include exhaustion, self‐loathing, anxiety and panic, a feeling of emptiness, horrid agitation and all the physical experiences that go alongside those states, like dizziness and tremor,” these affected her in her work, social and family life (Deacon, 2015). Her depression showed itself in a physical

The film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” centers around the main character Charlie, and his two best friends. At the start of the film Charlie is a timid boy trying to deal with the suicide of his best friend, and the death of his aunt and her repressed sexual abuse. The aftermath of these tragedies for Charlie create some mental health issues, which he works to overcome. After Charlie meets Sam and Patrick, Charlie appears to become more independent and self-assured. However towards the end of the movie this is shown to be untrue, as his past grief and remembering repressed incidents cause a breakdown which lands him in a mental health facility.

The book and the movie for The Perks of Being a Wallflower are extremely different, and I believe that the movie is much better than the book. The book is written much differently than the movie. There are lots of scenes that are in the book but not in the movie and that are in the movie not the book. The movie focuses less on the bigger, depressing topics than the book does. The characters in the movie are also much different than they are in the book. Their personalities are very different in the movie than the author described them as in the book.

‘If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.’ Miles Halters feelings about his what he thinks is the love of his life Alaska Young in John Greens Looking for Alaska could quite easily be mistaken for words spoken by Charlie about secret love Sam in the popular film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower directed by the writer of the book Stephen Chbosky. Both Green and Chbosky chose to place their young protagonists in confronting yet relatable situations in which they must confront death and love all while struggling their way through high school at the same time which not only impacts themselves but those close to them as well. Both books enlighten the readers with the important themes of emotional sanity, love and belonging.

For my paper, I am diagnosing Charlie from the film, Perks of Being a Wallflower. Before I delve into Charlie’s diagnosis, I will provide some background information about his character. In the film, Charlie is a 15 year old boy who has recently started high school as a freshman. He lives with both parents, and his sister who is a couple years older than him. Charlie also has a brother who has gone away to college. In school, Charlie is seen to be good with academics, particularly in English, since he has an interest in writing. However, Charlie does not have any friends and his best friend had kill himself in the last year. Furthermore, Charlie is seen to be quite socially awkward around his peers and usually keeps to himself.

Charlie, the main character in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, tells his story through a series of letters written over a span of one year, or Charlie’s freshman year of high school. Author Stephen Chbosky, tells the story of a young man trying to find his way and also trying to make friends in school. Along the way, Charlie has trials he must go through, and not everything results in a happy ending right away. Eventually, all is well in Charlie’s life, but he must struggle in order to finally be content and happy with his life. Charlie’s coming of age story is told through his trials of trying to fit in by going to parties, drinking and even doing drugs while many of his relationships are hurt in the process. Just as every other high school student, Charlie wants to feel like he belongs, even if that means becoming someone that he is not. Along the way, not only is Charlie hurt, but also his friends Sam and Patrick. The relationships with these two friends, and Charlie himself are tested by all of their actions and how they live their lives.

The number of teenagers who experience symptoms of depression because of school or school related activities in 2018 has grown exponentially since the Perks of Being a Wallflower was written because of the changes in technology and the views of how one’s life should be lived. What many people don’t realize is that many people face the battle of depression alone even though they are giving signals that say they need before they’re too far gone to be saved unscathed. Charlie’s story is a perfect example of this since he begins the book out seeming normal or as close to normal as someone like Charlie can be but ends up hospitalized because he was a threat to himself and he was invisible to everyone else. Charlie’s desperation for trust is portrayed in the very first line of the book.

Every kid who grows up in the suburbs loves to visit the big city. Stephen Chbosky’s novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is based in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is filled with the problems most suburbs face. Further, Chbosky continuously describes different very troubling mental illnesses which directly and indirectly affect his main character Charlie and all the people around him. Moreover, the proximity in which Charlie lives to the city contributes to his relationships with his friends and family. In the cold suburbs of Pennsylvania, life is different than life in the city, this greatly influences the lifestyle of people throughout the novel.

Due to various backgrounds, experiences and mindsets people who read the book might interpret the message dissimilarly. In my opinion, one of the most important themes in the story is coming-of-age. Every child should learn how to become the leading character of their own life. By doing that, they can create their own paths. Being a ”wallflower” might be safer, but in the end, you will have wasted your precious life. You might not get a second chance to do what you want to do. For instance, Charlie was dishonest with Mary Elizabeth about his feelings for her. This caused him to hurt her badly when he kissed Sam at a party. By being with Mary Elizabeth, Charlie wasted time not being with the love of his

Some simply cannot cope, like Maureen. The most notable event that unites the four main characters is that the all met at Topper’s House to commit suicide at the same time. This event connects the four and enables the writer to bring their different backgrounds to light. It serves as the unifying factor of the book. The four characters want to commit suicide because they are unable to cope with emotion and mental challenges in their life.

The book mainly focuses on the life of teenage boy, Charlie. Throughout the book it is demonstrated how our experiences have an impact on our identity. When Charlie attends Bob’s party with Sam and Patrick for the first time, he had been exposed to drugs. When being exposed to something new it can influence someone’s behaviour and motivate them to adapt to what others do and they will eventually try to fit into it. This is the same with Charlie as he took drugs he felt good and he started taking more. Charlie who once used to be a shy person started to adapt to new things that changed his individual identity. Exposure to new things can force someone to adapt the habits of others. Aunt Helen was Charlie’s favourite person. Aunt Helen molested Charlie due to the fact that she was abused by a friend of the family. The victims of abuse often become abusers themselves and she took advantage of shy, quite Charlie’s love and trust. When Charlie comes to terms with the fact that he was molested, he said, "So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most