The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The Perks of being a Wildflower movie is a great demonstration on adolescence and childhood development as it portrays how much we as humans are effected by our early childhood years and how we struggle to make sense of life while navigating through adolescence. We are molded by our environment, but also shaped by the neglect or abuse we suffer as children. The traumatic experiences are life altering and if not dealt with can have dramatic outcomes for our future. The movie has a great story line and walks the audience through the character and identity development of an adolescence. Dissecting Charlies character will be helpful in understanding that part of a human’s life and development.

The average American teenager has grown up in a world of labels and stereotypes: from movies depicting high school as an environment where exclusive friend groups command the school to magazines portraying flawless people and rendering them the paragon of beauty, American teenagers are constantly under pressure to conform to a certain label. The book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky follows a boy named Charlie as he enters high school. His mental illness is apparent throughout the text, but it is never acknowledged until the very end of the book. The novel is a series of letters that he writes to an unknown recipient. His impartiality and honesty in his letters create an objective view of the events that unravel throughout the story. The Alan Review even describes the story as “one of the most honest literary portrayals of teenage life within the last decades” (Glenn). The high schoolers in The Perks of Being a Wallflower are submerged in a society where labels are prevalent: if one does not belong to a certain social group, they are deemed outcasts and ostracized by their peers. Charlie is lucky enough to have found friends in high school who accept him for who he is. Others are not so lucky, and are forced to change who they are in order to appease the societal pressures to conform. These individuals are left wondering who they really are, after years of pretending. The pressure students in high school face to fit a certain label and conform to the

In the complete circle of life for all humans, this natural transition comes into existence with the formation of the one cell zygote to begin life from the initial stage of conception that goes through the various eight stages of psychoanalytic theory described by Erik Erikson how humans go through these stages of life by negotiating his or her biological forces and social cultures challenges until to our final stage of our lives that ends with death. In which, these challenges biological and social that we all face at some point in our lives have conflict between them and that has a dramatic effect upon us with whom we become in society. These human developmental stages has been debated by many scientists and psychologist over the years at what point in these stages in our life is the most important stage

‘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

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

In the Perks of being a Wallflower the main character Charlie struggles with not only his sexuality, but also the complications of sexuality of those around him. The movie portrays Charlie, Patrick, and Charlie’s love interest Sam, going through one long mischievous bonding trip, while exploring their own sexualities .It opens up with Charlie writing to a friend about his daily struggle in trying to find people to accept him for who he is. Charlie, like many people in society, is uncomfortable in his skin, and he feels judged by those around him. According to Sara Ahmed in “Queer Feelings”, homosexuals always feel uncomfortable because they cannot fit in. Charlie may not particularly be gay, but Charlie meets a man named Patrick who is in fact gay, and they become quick friends. Throughout the movie, introverted Charlie encounters the bad side of sexuality through molestation, bullying, fornication, and domestic violence. For example, Patrick’s lover in the movie, Brad, is a popular football quarterback, who desperately tries to suppress his sexual feelings for Patrick out of fear of what his father, and friends, might think of him. In the past, Linda Garnets states in “ Sexual Orientations in Perspective” that sexual orientation was understood as an old paradigm, so in Brad’s case people would label him as gay, simply because of what he does with his reproductive organs. But, Garnets believes that the new paradigm would say that people can act differently than they

The character I’m writing about is Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. When you look at Charlie’s health triangle it would be very unbalanced. The book doesn’t touch much on his physical health and his social health is not horrible, but his mental health is very poor. His mental health is bad because of all kinds of reasons, for example past abuse from his childhood, the use of drugs, and his best friend committing suicide the year before.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a fictional coming-of-age story following 15-year-old Charlie, the narrator, through his first year of high school. It is set in the 1991-1992 school year in an unknown location in America. The entire book is formatted as a collection of letters; in the first letter, Charlie explains that he wishes to remain anonymous and does not disclose much personal information. He also does not specify who the letters are addressed to; each letter begins with, “Dear Friend.”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel about coming of age that is seen through the perspective of Charlie, a young ‘wallflower’ that is starting high school and experiences the troublesome teenage life filled with drugs, sexuality and love. Charlie writes this book in a series of letters to an anonymous person. Charlie is the main protagonist of the story who is apprehensive and a kind-hearted boy however he has many problems happening in his life that he doesn’t like to concern others with “I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore”. I admire Charlie because he is very considerate of others and although he is shy he overcomes this fear when he tries to find friends and step out of his comfort zone” Normally I am very shy, but (Patrick) seemed like the kind of guy you could just walk up to at a football game even though you were three years younger and not popular”. In return Charlie is rewarded with his first real friend at high school. I also admire Charlie for his mature attitude towards finding new friends and moving on from the death of his friend Michael. Charlie really needed to start interacting more with people, during the story we find out that Charlie misses having a friend and that being alone can be difficult and cause negative effects “It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date”. I think

Having sold over 2 million copies, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a #1 New York Times Bestseller novel that has captured millions of people’s attention worldwide. Taking place in the early 90’s, a fifteen-year-old boy named Charlie is experiencing his first year of high school. Unfortunately, Charlie has lost his only friend and now has to navigate his own way to fit in. As a person who is naturally withdrawn, Charlie finds himself struggling to discover and maintain his new friendships, love life and sexuality. With the secret of having an abusive childhood, Charlie’s past slowly begins to haunt him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a spectacular novel because of the cathartic installments, a compelling main character

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.

In the novel “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” the main character name is Charlie. He is a disturbed boy. He shows symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder “PTSD” and anxiety. He became mentally unstable after being sexually abused as a child. He wouldn't think about the thoughts of it and it never really hit him until later on in his life.

Matos analyses The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a novel that progresses as the protagonist, Charlie, progresses. He states that not only does Charlie learn how to overcome his past as a wallflower, but as he matures, his writing does as well. The novel is written entirely in letters from Charlie to an unknown recipient, addressed by “friend,” so readers are subjected to Charlie's view on the world and himself, and not the view the world has on Charlie. He self reports everything going on in his life which, Matos points out, might cause a slight bias in writing and the exclusion of certain events. The novel starts when Charlie is about to begin high school, a time when he was very alone after the suicide of a close friend, and ends at the

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.