Perks Of Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an American coming of age novel written by Stephen Chbosky. The aim of this story is to entertain the readers as well as educate them about the struggles teenagers go through in their high school years. This story targets teenage readers but it is more mature than most young adult literature and can be enjoyed by older readers as well.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book which was first published in 1999 and is still being published today. The book is set in or around Pittsburgh, PA in 1991, and deals with the struggles of a boy in his first year of high school. Despite being set is in 1990’s the book still has a lot of relevance to this day. Whether it is a struggle of treading unchartered waters, facing

In a manner inclusive of his reader, the readers follow Charlie’s story from a first-person perspective. The Perks of Being a Wallflower unfolds through a school years’ worth of letters to an anonymous recipient, and it is through this diary like approach that the reader is able to connect, on an intimate level, with the book. The reader isn’t a stranger looking in through a window; he is there, inside, with all the action. Each letter is unique, and depending on the events described within each letter, devastating and hilarious. “Sam: How do you feel,

The book couldn't have been written differently and still have delivered the message like it did. By observing everything through the eyes of the main character, the reader could get the whole picture without even having to think from a different point of view. With the power of simple yet very effective language it's all laid there, emotion in its purest form. “Candice, I killed Aunt Helen, didn't I? She died getting my birthday present, so I guess I killed her, right? I tried to stop thinking that, but I can't. She keeps driving away and dying and I can't stop her. Am I crazy, Candace? What if I wanted her to die, Candace?” The tone of the story varies throughout the novel. For instance, when Charlie and his friends are driving through the tunnel and Heroes a song by David Bowie comes on the radio, they believe that it’s the perfect song; they become excited and start singing along and at this moment the tone of the story is happy. At another instance, when Sam and the others are leaving for summer school at the end of the story, the tone of the story becomes sad, as Charlie does not want to see them go as he has grown to be very attached to them “’I’m going to miss you all very much. I hope you have a great time at college.’ And then I started crying because it