Perks Of Being A Wallflower Case Study

Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, includes the topic of adolescent development, the book forces itself to thrive in conflict, and the idea of loving submission is present throughout the story as the discussion of modern issues becomes apparent. As expressed In the Perks of Being a Wallflower, “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other”(Chbosky.)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the story of a unique high school student named Charlie and his journey of self-discovery throughout his freshman year. Charlie’s personality changes drastically from the beginning of the book to the end of it; and this is what I want to focus on. First I am going to detail Charlie’s personality at the beginning of the book and then use Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development, Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development, Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development and an article about adolescent bulling to analyze them. I will then use examples from the book and film to illustrate his growth in the respected areas. Through these major theories of psychology I will show Charlie’s evolution from a wallflower to a human being.

When any of the above occurs individuals may feel oppressed, helpless and disempowered, low self-esteem, withdrawn and depressed.

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ follows shy and kind-natured Charlie Kelmeckis (Logan Lerman- Percy Jackson, The Butterfly Effect) as he enters high school alone, after the recent loss of his middle school best friend to suicide. Charlie gets befriended by seniors Sam (Emma Watson- Harry Potter-Beauty and the Beast) and Patrick (Ezra Miller- Justice League, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and finally feels accepted.

She is thinking of him waiting in the cupboard: “Maybe he [is] dead, maybe he had died of thirst, of hunger”(70).She starts blaming herself and saying that “it’s all her fault” (119). She feels guilty and she wants to take care of her brother as if she is responsible of him and since she believes that it is her fault if he still in the cupboard.

In the English 110 class, we performed many tasks that are required to do in the class. The class also required us to read a book which was titled, The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Reading the book was to help us write an essay about the book. We wrote many essays in the class also each essay was a different type of essay. In total in the class we wrote 4 essays on different subjects and with different methods of writing of the essay. Three of the four essay I selected because it showed the seven different outcomes that are for writing. The seven outcomes are process, revision, critical reading, rhetorical analysis and argumentation. Then the others are researching, quoting, paraphrasing, and documenting sources plus

Author of The Perks of a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, mentions an important point when he says, “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” Banning books has been a practice since 443 BC in Rome when Socrates was to drink poison because of “his corruption of youth and his acknowledgement of unorthodox divinities,” says Beacon for Freedom of Expression. Before a book can get to the point of being banned, it undergoes a process of being challenged. This is when a group of people or a person tries to restrict certain materials. When a challenge ends up being victorious, the book gets banned and removed. Some people believe that certain books are not ethically

Have you ever felt trapped? Like someone or something does not let you be yourself. You want to be able to just say or write exactly how you feel, but you can’t because if you did you would make the situation worse for yourself. It’s hard. It’s hard when there is hundreds of thousands of people that are going through the same situation as you,but you’re the only that knows what is actually going on. It’s hard when you want to reach out to people to help them but you feel that if you did it wouldn’t get through to them. It’s hard when when you can’t be yourself with the only person that you need approval of to be happy with yourself.

Sociology is the scientific study of being behavior in human groups (Schaefer). There are very many examples of sociology in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I view alienation, deviance, and gender roles to be the most prominent. This movie is about the struggles of a teenage boy named Charlie’s freshman year of high school. Charlie is seen as a social outcast and he just barely makes it through the year with the help of his best friends Sam and Patrick. Throughout the movie Charlie experiences most of the basic struggles of starting high school and some. This movie is very relateable since it gives a more realistic view of high school for some people. Charlie , and the audience, learns the importance of love and friendship in growing up in today’s society.

During my interview for the You and Eye company on March 1st and I was asked questions to tell about myself. When walking into an interview that is performed by your classmates is very nerve racking. I tried to smile and be calm when facing them. As soon as I said down I was asked which position I was applying for. I was applying for the receptionist position, to better my customer service skills. Each person asked me a question, when answering them I tried to give the best answer possible. When answering some of the questions it seemed like a joke and nobody was taking it serious. I tried to be professional and as honest as I could be. Sometimes I laughed to try and relieve some of the nervousness. Some of the question where very hard to understand,

When my cousin died I was devastated and broken. To lose someone when she was only 1, caused me to look at life as something that is ever fleeting. To lose someone to something as preventable as asthma caused me to realize there are people dying every minute from preventable deaths and I can and should do something to prevent it. The loss of Amber made me rethink how I was living my life and my plans for my future. I miss her everyday and I wish to a god I don’t believe in to get her back, but without her death I don’t know who I would have become because it would not be the same person I am today.

Franny would like nothing more than to talk to her brother Seymour. However, Seymour, the oldest of the children, committed suicide. Franny told Zooey that she wanted to talk to Seymour and nobody else for a couple of reasons. She respected Seymour. He had raised her and she missed her brother who had always taken care of her. She had listened to him her whole life and she wanted to listen to him now. She needed his advice. It is like the saying, she didn’t realize what she had until it was gone. In this difficult time in her life, she wishes to talk to him even more because she knows it isn’t possible. She probably didn’t need to talk to him like she does now because she was 13, and she didn’t have these kind of problems. While in his brothers’ room, Zooey began to feel guilty and wanted to help his sister after what he had done to her during their conversation. He knew that she was not ready to talk to him at this point. If she could

Think about the following questions to characterize the type of thinking process that normally directs your thoughts and actions:

At that moment, I knew what happened. I knew my grandma hadn’t made it. As we walked to the room where my grandma lay, my face was overcome with tears. Tears filled not only with sadness, but also with guilt. I had brushed off going to the hospital to see her, and now. I wasn’t going to be able to. My grandma died that Tuesday afternoon, January 3rd, 2017, and did so without seeing her grandson one last time.

At first, when I lost my grandmother I was heartbroken. She was always there for me, through thin and thick. From the day I was born she was right by my side, taking me to the beach, or teaching me how to play sports. When I first learned of her death I was devastated. I thought that there was no point and I was so mad at God for taking her away from not just me, but all of my young cousins and new family members to come. They would have never met her, which just made me more sad. They would never know what a “nana story” was, or ever truly understand her one of a kind personality. It crushed me to know that they would not know and it killed me that