Charlie Dialectical Journal

IR Final
Charlie is a lost boy, just like the rest of us in life...lost. Just when you think you know what you are doing or where you are going you find yourself lost. In this case Charlie is lost in high school a whole new world that he is traveling through, he grows up faster than you would expect. There is no right way to approach school. It how you decided to handle the challenges in school that make you who you are. We are all lost traveling through a dark tunnel, and all searching for the light.
In the book there are three different times where charlie is in a literal tunnel and it makes him think and explore the things that are around him. The first and third time that Charlie is in a tunnel he is with his two best friends, Sam and Patrick. When he is in the tunnel he starts talking about everything around him and starts thinking of things that really impact his life in a different ways. I think that when people are with other people that we grow and learn from each other so the fact that Charlie is in this tunnel basically growing up as he passes through is shows a lot through his friends

As he is driving through the tunnel he stops. He sits there and thinks about life and everything that was going on with him at the time. He says, “It was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite’’(Epilogue.21). He is think about how he was there and nothing could see him or judge him it was just him. He felt safe and I think that this symbol is how we all have a safe place that we go to and we feel care free like nothing really else matters in the world. This place for Charlie was the tunnel. In the tunnel he grew more than he realizes he thought and wrote letters about things that would soon change