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Comparative Essay Both the film the perks of being a wallflower (TPOBAW), directed by Stephen Chbosky, released in 2012, and the novel the Catcher in the Rye (TCITR), written in 1951 by J.D. Salinger, are texts befitting the coming of age genre, despite the age gap. TCITR explores three days in the life of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, as he leads up to a mental breakdown. Meanwhile TPOBAW follows the life of Charlie who has just come out of a mental institution and has returned to high school

making it even more special to me. After reading The Little Prince it made me want to stay in touch with my imagination and childhood wonder as I get older. For, “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower is my favorite book of all time. I read it the summer before freshman year when I was having trouble with coming to terms with how everyone was breaking up into cliques and trying to find where I belonged. This book was one of the most

In the sardonic play,” The Importance of being Earnest”, the author, Oscar Wilde, criticizes the Victorian era. Wilde touches on key subjects like social status, marriage, and utilizes various symbolisms, in a comedic way to mock the Victorian era’s detrimental culture. Wilde uses contrasting characters to convey a symbolism of the Victorian era in a satirical way. In doing this, he uses different characters to prove his point in mocking Victorian culture. These characters are used represent all

One of Oscar Wilde’s greatest strengths is comedy. In his 1896 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the story follows a man named Jack Worthing and other protagonists who attempt to either escape or conform the social values of the Victorian era. Wilde chooses the theme of satire and irony. His play is to poke fun at strict moral standards of his time period: marriage, morality, and hypocritical tendencies of the characters. The solemn topics discussed in are often times humorless, and he decided

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is an epistolary novel about Charlie, a fifteen-year-old introvert, going through his freshman year of highschool while still coping with the suicide of his best friend Michael, and the death of his beloved Aunt Helen. As the story progresses,Charlie develops a personal bond with his English teacher, Bill, and befriends two seniors, Sam and Patrick. Patrick--or “Nothing” (Chbosky 13) as some people call him--is an openly gay, happy-go-lucky guy who

The Importance of Being Earnest Characters Algernon Jack Gwendolen Cecily Miss Prism Lady Bracknell Chasable Character Sketch Algernon acts sort of narcissistic by living the “dream life”. I would say he is narcissistic because he spends all of his money on his extravagant lifestyle and by buying the best clothes; this causes him to go into debt and the bill collectors are always after him. He decides to make a fake friend named Bunbury to escape from the tax collectors and the city. Jack

The Perks of Having a Damaged Past Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky follows a teenage boy, Charlie, and those around him as they reveal their past to justify their present actions and feelings. As the characters all mature they learn that people cannot control where they come from or what has happened to them, but they can control what they become. When faced with problems in life such as abuse, whether it be physical or sexual, or alcoholism, or drug abuse, many people come out of

Kainoa Miyamoto Pd. 1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Throughout my less than satisfactory summer I had the pleasure of reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, which follows the troubled life of a teenager by the name of Charlie. I also had the chance to view the movie based on the novel and I am shocked to say how well it interprets the book. However there are a few minor differences between the novel and its screenplay. These differences include the narration of the story

All his life, Daniel has been told what he is supposed to want; how he is supposed to live, but when he meets Natasha, he starts wondering if everything is meant to be; are they meant to be. Daniel thinks maybe “all the people and places, all the coincidences were pushing us to be together forever. But maybe that’s not true. What if this thing between us was only meant to last the day? What if we are each other’s in-between people, a way station on the road to someplace else? What if we are just

their feelings, the soldiers carry all the necessary things they may need when being far from home; the things dictated by the war and its conditions such as openers, pocket knives,