Is Butter's Friends Trying To Avoid Attention?

However, that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have friends at all. Right after school, Jeremy would go home, and log into his computer along with his three other buddies: Hangman, PrincessDie5, and Dr. Ded. These four friends met in a music chat a while back, and ever since then, they became friends. It’s natural for many kids, pre-teens, and teens to go on the internet looking for friends, and wanting to feel like they have someone to talk too. They would settle down, and talk about death jokes, until someone goes. Considering Jeremy’s temperament, he lies to his online friends, so they wouldn’t know about him in real life. After every lie, he would tell them, was getting harder to keep up with them, so he would tell another lie. Jeremy knew that lying to them was the wrong thing to do, and he also knew that he doesn’t really belong with his online friends either. Being accepted is one thing, but lying just to be accepted is another thing. Now, like everything in Jeremy’s life was turning away, something magical

In “Butter” by Erin Jade Lange, the fact that the popular kids start to cheer butter on and place bets on if he will actually eat himself to death, suggests that popular kids are truly the most evil people. Once butter makes the website and the word spreads, two of the most popular guys in school suddenly act like his friends, but only because of the website. In the text it says, “nothing’ man. We just, y’know thought you might not want to sit alone.” “yeah” Parker said. “That and we want to know what's on the menu. (113). Before this, Butter would sit alone at a table and these guys at another, and on occasion they would say something rude to him. But, after two days of making the website, Trent and Parker have butter sit with them so they

Before Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because

Charlie was known to have the personality that was always bright and talkative. Charlie had the lowest skill level out of all his “friends” and he didn't understand how real friends should treat one another so he never thought anything of it. Charlie felt good about himself but he wanted to be smart and know what his friends and other people around him knew. He was ready to learn and he wasn’t scared because he pushed fear away; he just wanted to know what it was like to comprehend what was going on in the world. The

He talked to her because she was nice and didn’t judge him straight to his face like others did. I can connect that to my friendships with some of the “Populars.” Though we have our differences and disputes, not all Populars are awful.

Charlie is the main character of Perks of Being a Wallflower, a book set in the early 1990s. Charlie taps readers into his sixteen-year old world, cueing us in on all the gritty details of his life. One aspect of it, however, requires inquisition. Charlie is surrounded by people--by friends and family--yet is alienated. Ironically, those who’re his friends have also been alienated by society. He also is unmotivated to do well socially, too. Charlie is seen to be very passive-aggressive, letting others have their way over his. He even lets himself deteriorate when he needs help. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be,” Charlie says on page 11. This quote proves Charlie’s feelings towards his own life, leaving one to assume his alienation is society’s fault. Why be motivated to fix your attitude when you will still be considered ‘abnormal’ by your peers. Furthermore, people in Charlie’s life know he’s different and aren’t afraid to remind him. “You're a freak, you know that? You've always been a freak. Everyone says so. They always have,” Charlie’s sister tells him on page 12. This quote shows people’s opinions on Charlie and perpetuates the fact that he’s alienated. Although, the reason for alienation is unknown and left for the readers to discover themselves. Is it his growing unmotivation that was ultimately his downfall? Or

Scott was very shy at the beginning of the year, and he always let people pick on him. He never tried to talk to anyone outside of his friendship. But as the year went on and his group broke apart, he was introduced to more people that became his friends. “Vernon pushed my shoulder. I turned to face him. I wasn’t scared of him anymore. I wasn’t scared of anyone anymore” (Lubar 272). Scott had stood up for himself against the school bully. When he became friends with Wesley, he had gained enough confidence to not feel frightened by anyone anymore.

The hero I choose is Buttercup, she lives with the Professor Utonium, who created her and her two other sisters, in Townsville. She was created when the Professor was trying to make the “perfect little girl” he mixed sugar, spice, and everything nice but accidentally added “Chemical X”. Instead he made three girls each having the personality of the ingredients and Buttercups personality ingredient is spice.

Ross was absorbed with power which made him cruel. Mr. Ross, the history teacher, started an experiment called The Wave, which is an imitation of the Hitler Youth. He got very involved in this, although he intended it to be a small classroom experiment. The group ended up growing to the whole school, and the people in the group started to become cruel to those that are not a part of the group. In fact, one boy was beaten up because he wasn’t a part of the group. They were cruel to nonmembers because when they are in a group, they feel more powerful, and they like that feeling, so they will do anything to keep the group together. Anyone not in the group is not helping the group stay together, so they don’t like them and are cruel to them. Also, when Laurie decided to try to make a article in the school newsletter against the Wave, the Wave members really didn't want the article to go out. This is because they were afraid people would see Laurie's point of view and people would begin opposing them, causing them to lose power. Many of the other teachers were telling him that he needed to end it, but he liked being in charge and found classes much better, so he couldn’t bring himself to end it. He admitted that,"he had enjoyed the fleeting moments of power. A crowded room of students obeying his commands, the Wave symbol he'd created posted all over the school, even a bodyguard. He had read that power could be seductive, and now he had

Years would past while he raised his three boys with his wife; all the while his friends would keep trying to convince him that his wife had an affair behind his back. Charlie would still go on that he lived in this happy family, even when the

We get to know Charlie through letters he writes to the unnamed “friend”. Charlie has a lot of internal conflicts which he deals with every second of his life. He deals with his best friend’s death and his aunt’s death and his past with his aunt. These internal conflicts make him withdrawn. Moreover, Charlie has a need to tell someone about his life and thoughts, maybe to feel less lonely. In the very start of the story Charlie expresses: “I don’t want you to find me”, which emphasizes that he does not want a concrete person to help him, he only needs to let his thoughts out. Charlie is absolutely a dynamic and round character. He is an intelligent, observant high school freshman who hides his beautiful personality because of having dealt with a lot of trauma in his childhood. Through the relationships he develops over the course of the school year, Charlie suddenly comes out of his shell and grows as a person. For example, what he tells Sam who has also dealt with a troubled past: “Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there”. However, it is not until the very end of the book that he uncovers the repressed memories of sexual abuse of his aunt that are at the foundation of his internal

alone and in peace, he was made fun of by the children and some adults.

At the start of the novel charlie is just about to start his freshman year of highschool without any friends because his only friend michael killed himself but then at a football game he meets Sam and Patrick and make him a bit more sociable for example in a part of the novel he takes part in something called the rocky horror picture show in front of hundreds of people.By the end Charlie is now able to socialize and make more friends.This evidence shows how Perks of being a wallflower is partially about friendship and why it's important.Through socializing more and making new friends this shows that perks of being a wallflower teaches friendship and why it's important.

Charlie was a man that did not know how to stand up for himself. He allowed his peers to bully him, and treat him like he is worthless. Charlie thinks that if he allows people to laugh at him, and tease him, they will become his friend. He thinks “Its easy to make frends if you let

He feels lonely, blames himself for his aunt’s death, abuses substances at parties, and has thoughts of suicide. Before he returns to the mental hospital, the camera shows him reaching for a knife. This moment suggests he would have committed suicide if his sister had not sent the police to his house. His depression could have been caused from his PTSD and feelings of loneliness. He was lonely on the first day of highschool because his best friend had also committed suicide the May before. He even describes to his new friends, “I didn’t think that anyone noticed me” (Perks of Being a Wallflower). He describes himself as “getting bad again” when his best friend dies, when he has not seen his friends for two weeks, and when his friend group leaves for college. These are all times when he may have been feeling lonely. He reveals his PTSD and depression through his relationships as well. Charlie is close to his family and reveals he has not spoken to anyone outside his family since the school year, but he meets seniors who help him find his way. He is loving, caring, and thankful for his friends and is sad when they leave, and he even stands up for them after they had asked Charlie to stay