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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky, Stephen: Pocket Books UK, 2009) is a novel set sometime in the 1990’s, and focuses on the life of Charlie, a troubled fifteen year old boy who is just trying to find his place in the world. The book is written in the form of letters written from Charlie to an unknown ‘friend’. Many controversial issues are dealt with throughout the course of the novel but Chbosky writes in such a way that makes the book and its characters relatable and likable. Charlie

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    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

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    The Summary: “The Perk of Being a Wallflower” follows an awkward 15 year old; Charlie who is writing letters to one of his friends about his experiences and his thoughts. These letters are focused on Charlie’s first year of high school and his coping of the deaths of  his best friend michael and his aunt Helen. While trying to adjust to high school he became close to his english teacher who gives Charlie extra assignments not for marks but because charlie is advance in literature. After a few weeks

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    We defined and described depression in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it is often thought by people to have been exaggerated. However, many people have suffered from depression and it’s important to know how it affects people in real life. Deacon Ph.D. (2015) is a retired mental health nurse who suffers from depression and in her article, “Personal Experience: Being Depressed Is Worse than Having Advanced Cancer,” she exclaims her pains which, “include exhaustion, self‐loathing, anxiety and

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    february of 1999. This book was soon turned into a movie rated P-G13 in 2012 as a comedy/drama. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower has become my favorite novel because of its realistic feel, depth of character, and the emotional connections the reader is able to develop with each character. In the Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Charlie and

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    “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, presents Charlie as a scared child who transforms into an adjusted teenager. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, is a young adult novel published in 1999 by Stephen Chbosky presented as letters from Charlie to a friend of his not named within the story. Obviously, Charlie is not a high school freshman given his tidiness though he is a bit awkward and shy in the company of others. Through the novel, there is a journey of the life of Charlie in the loss of his friend

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    Steven Chobosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming of age epistolary novel that follows the life of Charlie, an intro-verted, modest, and sweet character. Charlie writes about his story threw a series of letters that contain his accomplishments, defeats, and personal issues to an anonymous friend whose identity is an enigma. Dealing with the suicide of his best-friend Michael, he meets Sam and Patrick who introduce him to their group of misfit friends; people to live life to its fullest

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    The perks of being a wallflower The novel ”The perks of being a wallflower” is written by Stephen Chbosky and published by MTV Books. The edition I read has 213 pages and it’s written in the form of letters that Charlie, the main character, writes to a anonymous friend. The novel takes place in a Pittsburgh suburb in the early 1990s. Charlie has just started high school. He start to write these letters to help him with his problems like drugs, abuse and self-hate. Throughout the year Charlie

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    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

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    Essay Organizer Adolescence is the stage in human development that prepares individuals for the transition from childhood to adulthood. Stephen Chobsky’s novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, are critically acclaimed coming of age stories that document the turbulence of adolescence. The protagonists of these novels, Charlie and Holden Caulfield, both encounter common themes in adolescence such as alienation, confusion of sexuality, and loss of

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