Charlie is a good student, he attends school regularly, has earned a perfect attendance certification and is a all-around good student. The issues Charlie faces at home is not being able to grow up with a positive role model. He never had the opportunity to be surrounded by a father figure. Adolescents can sometimes find it difficult to go through their lives and not being able to have a two parent household. Charlie made a rational choice on the night of the killing; 1) he was motivated to kill George because he felt like his mother was dead, 2)
" As he watches and feels sorry for Jeffery and wants to do something to help or make everyone realise that Jeffery is the best out of all of the players. Charlie demonstrates his desire to stand up for justice and to use his voice to promote what he believes is true. This showing teen voice and empowerment in Charlie
Charlie was an observer; he never got involved or talked to people. Soon Charlie was following in his mother’s foot steps.
But when Charlie got the surgery, he realized when his intelligence was wearing off, he got super depressed but he powered through the depression. One quote from the book that indicates depression is “please... please let me not forget how to read and write.” (keyes 25). Even though he is forgetting how to read and write and he is getting depressed, he powers through the depression. On the last page he says “im taking a cuple of books along and even if i cant reed them ill practise hard and maybe i wont forget every thing i learned.
Ultimately, his repressed memories of sexual abuse subconsciously played a role in his relationships and who he became as an individual. In fact, upon this realization Charlie decides he no longer needs to write to the mysterious stranger; believing he has control over his own life and that he is not defined by his past. For example, Charlie said “I keep quiet most of the time, and only one kid named Sean seemed to notice me” (Chbosky 7). In conclusion, there are perks if you prefer to not be the center of attention and the drawbacks as you maybe a target for bullies and miss out on opportunities, of being a
Also do you believe that Charlie is starting to mature or does everyone do this regardless of maturity level? Comment below. Also, I read an interesting article titled '27 Signs of True Maturity '. Lots of these signs posted in this article mirror Charlie 's actions and thoughts.
This lesson is gained because of Charlie 's journals and his own experience with wanting to be
At the beginning of the novel, Charlie went to high school with no friends and feeling more alone than ever because all his old friends started hanging out with new people. At a school football game Charlie went by himself because he did not have any friends to go with, Patrick saw Charlie by himself at the game and even though he didn’t know him well he invited Charlie to come to sit with him and his sister Sam. They both introduced themselves to Charlie and told him to take a seat. “They both told me to have a seat, and they both seemed to mean it, so I took a seat.”
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.
It’s shown throughout the book that Charlie’s “friends” were hurting him and going to horrible heights to exploit Charlie’s mental
In the book, Charlie let's Patrick kiss him without Charlie reacting in a negative way and shows how his behavior is different than expected. Some would probably expect for Charlie to react different and not let Patrick kiss him, but he stays quiet and decides to go along with it. Charlie’s relationship with patrick isn’t really unstable, but maybe relationships from before are what cause him to let Patrick kiss him and try “something new.” In the book, Charlie says, “And moved in to kiss me again. And I just let him.
Just like he blames himself for the suicide of his friend Michael, he blames himself for his Aunt 's death too and would rather not talk about it. Charlie 's high school life begins solo, until he meets Sam and Patrick – seniors – who help him cope with these issues and introduce him to the world of good music, drugs and other things. Throughout the story, we see him battling to accept himself and the world around him while growing up. 3. Charlie Kelmeckis is a blue eyed fifteen (sixteen by the end of the book) year old teenage boy.
For example, on page 299, “I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile, the wide bright eyes of a child, uncertain but easy to please. And I had been laughing at him too. Suddenly, I was furious at myself and all those who were laughing at him.” Here, Charlie was realizing that people were mean and rude to people who weren’t like them. That people looked down to people who were different than them or not as smart.
These morals reflect the process that drives Charlie’s struggle to understand himself and the world around him as he becomes more
It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life” (75). In this quote, Charlie’s love for Sam is present. This quote has to do with experimentation because Charlie had his first kiss, which means he it
