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.

A pro / con essay : A BAN ON VIOLENCE IN MOVIES

Nowadays, violence is a big topic, reason for which I reflected on the pros and cons of a possible ban.

First of all, non-violent films are not only amusing but also successful.
Unfortunately, young people are often being influenced in a negative way by violent movies.
In the worst case, some people are invited to imitate a lot of things occurring in such films because otherwise they wouldn’t have thought of committing a crime.

In contrast, such a ban would also have disadvantages.

First, it is well known that horror films offer a welcome escape from everyday life. Some people who have a lot of stress appreciate that sort of thing.
Secondly, in most cases violence is being presented in a totally unrealistic way and can therefore not be copied.
The most important argument is that we certainly do not turn into a non-violent society just because violence is not allowed to be shown in movies.

Personally, I’m against an official ban of violence in movies because I enjoy the horror films. Although I have watched such films for years already I’m still a good girl and would never think of committing a crime myself.

Snow Falling On Cedars

Is a novel written by American writer David Guterson. We see the conflicts between the Americans and Japanese.

Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is on trial for the murder of Carl Heine who is a respected fisherman. He was defended by his lawyer, the old Nels G.
The corpse is discovered in the fishing net from his boat, that has been found in the next morning.
Spearheading the prosecution are the town sheriff and prosecutor. They suspected Kabuo of the murder, because there is long quarrel between Kabuo’s and Carl’s family, over a piece of land. The field is contested in the trial because the land was originally owned by Carl. Kabuo's father approached Heine about purchasing seven acres of the farm.
In San Piedro Island, war erupted between the Us and Japan. Carl’s father died and his wife sold the land from Kabuo. When Kabuo returned he was extremely bitter. This is the reason why Carl’s mother, accuse Kabuo of murdering his son for personal reason.

The most people in the courtroom don’t believe Kabuo. Although there are no concert facts, it doesn’t look good for him.

One fact in the trial against Kabuo is the wound on Carl’s head. A doctor says that it is caused by kendo, a stick fighting, which Japanese are learned from they’re beginning. Another fact against him is the batteries. They were on the corpse boat, but they didn’t fit into his holder but in Kabuo’s they do fit. Last he gets also accused for not saying the truth. Kabuo’s wife asks Ishmael to write an article about the unfairness in the whole process. After that, it comes clear that Kabuo was guilty. Carl died because of an accident.

The truth is, that Carl wanted to get his lantern on his boat from the top while Another boat crashed into his boat because of the fog. Carl fell down and he hit the boat with the head and he got unconscious. After that, he fell into the water and drowned.

At the end the justice has won because nobody should be accused because of his nationality.

TASK 2

In my opinion art can be anything. Every person has another idea of art. I think its interesting to see what the artist wanted to express with his picture. The picture expresses a lifelike atmosphere with a woman in the middle. For me this picture is a photograph and it is art.

CORRECTION OF THE FIRST WRITTEN EXAM


TASK 1

Dear, Marina

Last night my sister show me a picture with the title “ The Problem we all live with”.

She found the painting in her new book “Artists”. The painter, who painted this picture is called Norman Rockwell. I’m going to send you the picture with my letter.

In this picture you see four policemen, called Deputy us Marshalls. In the middle of the policemen you see a small black girl. . In the upper right corner, there is blood on the wall. In my opinion the artist wanted to express the racism in the world, the violence ant the anger of the people. The girl expresses courage for me because she walks between the big policemen and is not scared about it. For me, the painting is very interesting and it makes me want to find out what the artist wanted to show us with his idea. I hope you enjoy the picture.

When I saw the painting my first thought was you. You are going to write me an answer. I’m interest of your answer and your thoughts and emotions about the picture.

Yours, Magdalena

Life after death

I totally agree with the opinion of Buddhists and Hindus that death is not the end of existence, but that there will be another type of life afterwards.
However, I disagree with the meaning that we have to undergo several rebirths until we reach the final goal.
I personally believe that problems in life are here to be solved, so that they will not occur again in our next life.
If, on the other hand, we are unable to solve them during the present life, they will come again. For example, when a woman is being hit regularly by her husband and she is just fleeing, she has not solved her problem directly; it will then arise again and again, maybe even after her transition into her next life. On the whole, I think that we shouldn’t too much bother about what is coming after death.

Letter

Dear editor,

I read the article “ Giuliani forced into climbdown” in the newspaper on Monday. It’s about a row between the mayor Mr Giuliani and Brooklyn museum about Ofili’s Virgin Mary. I disagree with the opinion from the mayor because he was against this art exhibition. Because he said Ofili’s Virgin Mary it’s a kind of “shock art” . I think every artist can shock with his art in another way.
In my opinion the picture is very amazing, because you don’t see that every day.
When I saw the picture it made me thoughtfully. For me, “shock art” is very interesting, because the artist shows what he feels an what he thinks in another way. I adore painters who aren’t ashamed for their art. Finally I want to say that every kind of art always says something about human passions or feelings. I totally agree with the end because the museum won.

Yours, Magdalena