Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Since I'm not in the mood to type my thoughts in an essay form, I should take a shot through bullet. I hope you don't mind.


  • Why I like it? It is an easy read novel.
  • It's a very weird epistolary novel about a boy who records significant events in his life as a high school freshman. He goes by the name Charlie and writes these letters to a person he doesn't know.
  • I like how Charlie expresses his thoughts. they are rather intimate, sincere and illuminating.
  • The story talks about topics such as introversion and how awkward it is to be a teenager. The book also includes brief topics about drugs, sex, homosexuality and suicide. It mirrored real life events and it opened my eyes, as a reader to different situations a person can possibly face.
  • As the story goes on, various topics about literature and music were discussed. The beatles were one of them
  • Adolescents nowadays are not naive as their parents think they are.
  • It contains real-life problems some adolescents face. 
  • There was also this transition from being a  nobody to somebody's friend, brother and son.
  • It values friendship.
"Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there" (Chbpsky 211)

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