Character Analysis of the Perks of being a Wallflower

The book is written like a diary that is why it was not clear where the story exactly started. The story started on August 25th, 1991. The book is about a boy called Charlie. One day he was at a football game. While he is watching a boy called Patrick and his sister Sam sit next to him. Sam and Patrick are both seniors. They become good friends. From that moment on they hang out almost every day. They all really like listening to music and reading books.

Because of Sam and Patrick Charlie even goes to school parties. He also makes many new friends who are also seniors. Charlie starts to drink and smoke. He even gets a girlfriend.

The story ends when Charlie’s friends leave to go to college. In my opinion, the message behind this book is that you always have to be yourself and that it does not matter if you aren’t popular at school. You can still have a great time without being very popular. Characters The main character is Charlie, The story is written from his point of view. Charlie is a 15-year-old high school student. He is not popular at all and his only friend that he had was Micheal, but he died during the summer holiday because he committed suicide. The other characters are: Patrick: Charlie and Patrick shared a class together but they were never really close. He likes to smoke and listen to music. Sam: Charlie also becomes friends with Sam because she went to see the football game together with Patrick.

Charlie has a very big crush on Sam. She really enjoys reading and listening to music. Mary Elizabeth: Charlie and Mary dated for a short time, but Charlie ended it because he was still in love with Sam. Mary really likes reading. My recommendation I really liked this book because it talked about very serious subjects such as sexual assault, suicide, and other mental health issues. It was written on a very nice reading level. I did not struggle while reading this book because everything was written very clearly.

I do think that sometimes there were too many things written about a specific event and it became a little bit boring to read. I also really liked that the events in the book were things that happen in daily life, that made the book more realistic. I do think that the writer could have given the reader more information about the characters and where the story took place. Overall it was a very good book and I would definitely recommend it to my friends. I’m sure that they will also like it.

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