The Movie ' Perks Of Being A Wallflower '

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have,” expresses Charlie while he’s in a hospital room. I admire Charlie’s speculative way of raising children, or even treating people. Throughout Charlie’s life, he had to deal with the loss of a friend who committed suicide, abuse from his Aunt Helen, and his friends and siblings all leaving for college. With all the hardship that he’s been through, he knows that other people’s problems are also valid, even if they’re small. For example, when Patrick was going through the breakup with his boyfriend, Brad, Charlie tried his best to aid Patrick, even if it meant putting his personal problems

Charlie’s friendship with Jasper Jones, his parents, and witnessing the intolerance of Corrigan are the three biggest factors in Charlie's development from innocence to experience. Jasper Jones exposed him to fear and forced him to be brave and face his fears, the rampant intolerance in Corrigan, both racial and otherwise, exposed him to the injustices of the real world, and his relationship with his parents taught him to be diplomatic and control his

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.

Coming of age is a popular theme in literature with many authors, directors, and musicians basing their work around it. They create works with the intent to examine our youth from different perspectives. Two great examples of this would be the film The Breakfast Club and novel The Perks of being a wallflower. Both show a realistic and relatable take on the lives of high schoolers, however I’d argue Breakfast Club better accomplishes this goal. The Breakfast Club takes each classic high school stereotype and grants the viewer some understanding as to who they really are beneath their label, compared to The perks of being a wallflower which performs poorly in trying to accurately portray high school life.

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ fits into the romance and drama genres, but the movie truly shines in its role as a coming of age film. ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ tackles the hardships and pain that growing up can sometimes make you feel, and depicts high school in the most realistic way I have seen for a while. Other coming of age films like ‘Clueless’ and ‘Mean Girls’ portray high school in a sort of innocence, with issues going on in the protagonist’s lives only occurring during their times at school. This film doesn’t sugar coat things. It shows Charlie’s struggles from all different angles of growing up and

His frustration grows after his friends start heading off to college and has a constant stressor from all the flashbacks he’s having, believing that he himself killed his Aunt. Charlie was close to his aunt as a child and it is obvious that aunt Helen was playing favoritism when it came to charlie. Aunt Helen gave him a special attention and she was kind to him, she told him that she understood him and he was special but this in a way was a ruse. Charlie repressed his memories of aunt Helen 's sexual assault but started realizing eventually, Charlie has a mental breakdown during his first sexual encounter with Sam and the realization of his past comes flooding in after she touched his leg similar to the way his aunt Helen did to him. He was sexually assaulted by his aunt and he tried forgot all of this and he tried to move on with his life but he saw memories that haunted him. This could be the possible reason and explanation as to why he said to her sister that he wished their aunt to die. Afterward, charlie is in a hospital after trying to commit suicide and must start accepting the truth to get past what happened. Charlie is often trying to please people and is always worried about how other people feel but never truly worries about himself, it could be that charlie is very caring but it is possible that charlie has had this way of thinking instilled in his mind: aunt help was very disturbed as charlie knew this and because of this he was constantly

The setting of the novel greatly breads Charlie’s life. In the suburbs, everyone knows each other better than in the city. Therefore, when one person is beaten by a mental illness, it affects everyone in some way. When someone has a mental illness people do not talk about it, it is pushed away and hidden. No one really tries to help, but once the problem goes to extremes and someone commits suicide, no one is not talking about it. So when Charlie’s best and only friend stops coming to school and they announce that he has passed away, everyone is whispering about it and trying to find what really happened. Charlie found someone who knows the truth and got the true but devastating news “Dave with the awkward glasses told us that Michael

As one immerses themselves into Charlie’s journal or rather, progress reports, they began to learn much about Charlie and his character. Through these reports, one can gather that Charlie desires to be smart like everyone else (Keyes 1), strives to accomplish any task that he is given (Keyes 4), is very self-motivated (Keyes 9) and,

Charlie, from the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, shows signs for a possible diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). DSM-5 states that to be diagnosed with PTSD, the individual must meet criteria A-H (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In addition, the individual must also have persistent or recurrent symptoms of either depersonalization or derealization ((American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The individual having exposure to some form of traumatic event is criterion A (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). For Charlie, he has three traumatic events: being molested by his Aunt Helen when he was about five or six, learning that his Aunt Helen was killed in a car accident around the same age, and learning that his friend committed suicide while they were in middle school.

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.

When thinking of teen films our minds instantly might go to the well-known film The Breakfast Club which was released 1985. Some might think of the 1978 film Grease. We think of these films because they portray the lives of a group of teens for a day or even a school year, but the one thing teen films have in common are the characters main setting is a high school or around a high school (Denby 367). The 2002 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower can be categorized, by Denby’s standards, a teen film, because it meets the criteria of having goofy young actors trying to make an impression, teenage angst, and Charlie’s, the main character’s, enemies are the popular upper classmen.

Throughout the teenage years, children are becoming adults and experience things that may have seemed unfathomable just years before. In Stephen Chbosky’s book The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie experiences some terrible things that most people will not experience in their life time. He is just starting high school, he lost his best friend and his aunt. He is trying to understand who he is while trying to overcome trauma from his past. The Perks of Being a Wallflower displays Charlie’s experience in his grade nine year, and his change in personality from scared to brave and from shy to outgoing.

The Perks of Being A Wallflower is a book written by novelist Stephen Chbosky, which illustrates the struggle of teenagers in their lives. The book has been written from the perspective of a teenage student, Charlie. Charlie is a wallflower, always watches life from the sidelines. He is a freshman who is befriended by some high school seniors. When Charlie meets his new friends, he is exposed to the new world of drugs, music, relationships, love, sexuality and more. This book contains various themes on adolescent that as a teenager we experience in our lives and significantly one major theme the book broadly talks about is how relationships and experience shape an individual’s sense of identity

“I’m starting to feel like what I dreamt about her last night was true,” Charlie writes (Chbosky 116) In The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Charlie faces internal and external conflicts during his first year in high school as a freshman while trying to fit in and coming to terms that the aunt he loved the most molested him. Conflicts drive the learning and acceptance of coming of age.

If “seeing is believing”, then how youth is represented in popular films is all true, right? Partying hard, drugs, promiscuity and sour attitude – wrong! The problem is not the unacceptable and risky behaviour, because it only applies to a minority. The real issue is that the way teens are represented on movie screens is unrealistic and over-dramatized which benefits film makers, not the reputation of teens. Right now all we’re seeing are the fictional teens and the false realities that seem to be attached to our popular films.