Charlie is a teenage boy who doesn't know how to react when he is in a intimate moment . Charlie lets his friend named Patrick kiss him after a long night, however doesn't stop Patrick from doing it again. Charlie was stuck in one of the f’s which was freeze mood while the kissing happened and what's might have caused him to freeze in that moment is because of what happened when he was younger which was that he was molested by his Aunt Helen and he saw his Aunt Helen as his second mom when that happened he was stuck in freeze mood as well as in the car with Partick “And moved in to kiss me again. And I just let him.” ( Chbosky, 160) Charlie lets his friends to kiss him and that makes charlie happy because he might feel like he is needed since he doesn't feel needed when he's at home. One of Freud's theories was that “who every bits there are victims of sexual assault” Charlie would be showing signs of this but freuds …show more content…
Family dysfunction, Charlie throughout the book never had that family support he wished he had. The whole family kept secrets from each other, charlie is like the underdog of the house. His own father has hit him just asking a simple question about his aunt. Maybe all the things that go on at home also affect him in a way on why he let Patrick kiss him. Since he doesn't have the support that everyone else has at home Charlie can’t vent out to someone or someone to teach him that he shouldn't let his friends walk all over him or kiss him just because it makes him happy or his friends happy. A family is suppose to support each other in everything but charlie doesn’t have that. One other reason why Charlie might have let Patrick kiss him is when he lost his best friend Michael he didn't have nobody to run to or a shoulder to cry on. He might think that if he does things for people they will listen to him and his