The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 213 page, growing of age novel, written by Stephen Chbosky. The main character, Charlie, is a young teenager who is going into his first year of high school. He has a hard time fitting in and making friends as he tends to get laughed at and bullied by others. Although, his high school experience changes when he meets his new friends, Patrick and Sam, who are seniors. They treat Charlie so differently from all the other kids and together they go through experiences that strengthen their friendship. Charlie begins to change into a more outgoing person and does things that he never would have done before meeting Patrick and Sam. Charlie, Patrick, and Sam all go through struggles throughout their friendship, but they seem to go back to normal before Patrick and Sam leave for college. Patrick and Sam leave for college and Charlie stays behind but he doesn’t seem to care much about if he is alone because he has all the memories that his friends gave him that year before.
This book had very simplistic writing, as it was basically written as Charlie’s diary of his day to day life. In a way I did connect to it because as I saw some of Charlies’s daily struggles then I saw that those were some of the normal teenager problems that I and many others had. One of my favorite things in this book was the fact that although Charlie returned to the way he was the next year of high school in a way he didn’t because of how Patrick and Sam had changed his way of thinking before. Overall, I really enjoyed this book because of the relativity it has to young teens, and for its deep meaning about what a real friendship is.
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