The perks of being a wallflower was writen by Stephen Chbosky it is a story told through letters been written to annoymous reader. This book is about ‘Charlie’ a extremly awkward and shy freshman yet his quitness allows him to observe people around him and learn about life for the first time. ‘Charlie is a emotional boy that has seen the experiences of awful events in his preveres life. By reading this novel I have become aware and connected with the writer through the letters and his walks down the high school halls.
Charlie had it hard in his prevese years in middle school, he had been up and down from each therapy treatment and away from school a lot, shortyly after ‘he got good again’ his best and only friend commited suicide just before he started his new school. Charlie tells us ‘I just wish he left me a note, letting me know why’, most people after a friends death would like a note but a comfort one and loving words but in this case Charlie just asks why, I feel as
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Not everyone has a cure for what comes towards them but we do have a way to fight it. Charlies life has been an obstacle up to high school but he is about to make those changes, Charlie quotes ‘but even if we don’t have the power to chose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there. The power of this message is strongly thought of especially during high school and the obstacles we fair to go through may hit us like a brick wall but that’s when we decide what we do with it and how we move on in life, as Charlie said its where we choose to go too from here. ‘I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have, I need to know these people exist’ I think after hearing this quote and understanding the power of this novel that Its clear why Charlie writes