The Perks of being a wallflower

BOOK REVIEW

Recently, I read the book called “THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER” by Stephen Chbosky. He is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director and he is born in 1970. The book is one of the best coming-of-age novel.

Which consists exclusively of a series of letters from Charlie to an unknown person about him and his life. It really gives the reader a close-up look into the world through the eyes of Charlie. He is a young man who suddenly see’s himself in the middle of his life. He makes friends, goes on parties, and has problems that every other young person of his age has too.
Since he writes very emotionally, you can always recognize how he feels. Sometimes I had the feeling that I am the unknown person who read the letters of Charlie.

I really like the book because the writer is not afraid to talk about controversial topics, such as drugs, sex, homosexuality, abortion, rape and other things like that.
It is easy to read and not to long but there are still topics enough to think about seriously. I think the main message of the book is that you should be staying true to yourself. I like very much the explaining of the vocabularies.
I think Stephen Chbosky did a good job on well-developing the story and describing perfectly the characters especially Charlie, Patrick, Sam, and Charlie’s family.
In the end, I would say that it can surely be recommended to all teenagers.


THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
DESCRIPTION OF CHARLIE


Charlie is the main character of the book.
He starts out in the novel at the age of fifteen, but by the end he reaches the sweet sixteen. In the beginning he is a shy, intelligent, sensitive, soft and lonely boy who is about to start high school. But as time rolls on, some of Charlie’s personality traits change somewhat. He lost his only important persons, Michael and his aunt Helen, already in his early years. Michael committed suicide and aunt Helen had a car accident that she didn’t overcome.
First he sees his life through the eyes of a child.
That brings him a lot of problems and he also doesn’t know why he is different.
Charlie is very emotional and cries a lot.
He is developing a special relationship with his English teacher, Bill, who gives him interesting books to read. He is very interested in books. It seems to help him to think about the meaning of life and other things like that.
He can tell Bill his problems at any time. So that, they are finally getting real good friends.
One day he meets his new friends, called Sam and Patrick. From that moment onwards his life changes completely. He started to consume alcohol, drugs, had sex and went on parties.
He loves his friends very much and make them feel good and wants to be needed.
In this time he learned much about dates, sex, homosexuality, love, friendship and other things.
In the end of the novel he changed to another person.