Stephen Chbosky's The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky is the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. He was born on January 25, 1970 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and was raised by a Catholic family consisting of his mother, father, and younger sister. He was moved by novel “The Catcher in the Rye” made by J.D. Salinger when he was a teenager. He graduated from Upper St. Clair High School, he met Stewart Stern who is the screen writer of Rebel Without a Cause, and both became close friends. When he finished writing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, he revealed that the Bill Anderson, a literature teacher, was inspired by Stewart Stern and throughout his development, he showed the positive influence of Stern. He attended University of Southern California in which he took the

Chbosky’s first novel was The Perks of Being a Wallflower which was published during 1999. The book sold more than a million copies (New York Post 2012) and has been translated into 31 languages (GradeSaver). The film adaptation of this novel was screen written and directed non-other than Chbosky. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for The Perks of Being a Wallflower during 2013. The novel mainly talks about not defining yourself because of the past. The novel tackles about coming of age: Charlie tells about his life throughout high school, friendship: the connection between Charlie, Patrick, and Sam, passivity; Charlie being shy and not participating on his own life, love; love between friends, family, teenager, and Charlie’s first crush, family, literature and writing, and sadness. The main characters of the novel are Charlie, Patrick, and Sam. Charlie, the protagonist of the novel, writes a series of letters to his “friend” in which he narrates about his life. The whole novel was written on Charlie’s perspective. He is referred to as the “wallflower”. He always spends a lot of his time analyzing