Essays on Wallflower

This novel is a collection of personal letters from a boy named Charlie to an anonymous person. Charlie is fifteen, and is a freshman in high school. In these letters he describes everything that happens to him: all of his first times, the complicated journeys of his friends Sam and Patrick, his love to Sam and his greatest hobby – observing other people’s lives. The language is kept fairly simple, which makes it possible for everyone to understand the most difficult thing in this world: teenagers; A.V. Club says that it is because “The Perks of Being a Wallflower ...

Catcher in the rye brings out the anguish and confinement in a teenage boy called Holden, in the mid-1950 (Bratož 95). Holden is faced with disparities in life, which makes him to reconsider the meaning of life. Similarly, Charlie, in perks of being a wallflower is faced with problems that Holden encounters in life. Despite living in different social, economic and cultural confinement, ideologies represented in the two pieces of literature are uncanny. Holden was a victim of the World War 2 post-war trauma in the United States of America. The post-war conditions had forced Holden to give up ...

Movie Review.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a movie where Charlie, a freshman in high school is the main actor. Charlie has had mental illness in the past, in school, he makes friends with two senior students Patrick, who is gay and Sam who is a stepsister to Patrick after they meet at a school dance. Mr. Anderson, a literature teacher, also becomes a friend to Charlie and lends him a book. Charlie falls in love with Sam after they spend time studying together, as he helps her study for her SATs, so she can get into Penn State ...