My Opinion on 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'

Independent Reading: Perks of Being a Wallflower
Drugs, Sex, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Charlie, a 15 year old boy, was never normal. The book starts up with him recovering from the suicide committed last year of his best friend. To cope with this horrific event Charlie writes letters to this one person, in which we never truly figure out who. Charlie is an incoming freshman to his high school; he cannot connect to anyone expect for his English teacher, Bill. This could be because of Charlie’s late Aunt Helen in which he was attached to very much. After a few classes, Bill realizes that Charlie is not very sociable and encourages his to become involved in high school events. This is where Charlie’s adventures truly begin. While at a football game, Charlie meets Patrick and Sam, they introduce Charlie to drugs and alcohol. Throughout the whole book Charlie and Sam play cat and mouse in their relationship, their relationship flourishes right before Sam heads off to college and they have one last night to reconnect with not only each other but with their inner soul. As Sam slides her hand up Charlie’s leg, Charlie has a flashback of something morbid and freaks out. The next day Charlie says his goodbyes to Sam; as she drives off he has a mental breakdown, the next thing you know Charlie blackouts and finds himself in a hospital. After going through therapy he finds out his suppressed memory of his Aunt Helen sexually abusing him when he was younger. A couple of days go by and Charlie forgives his Aunt Helen for she has done to him and Charlie searches in himself to conclude that he himself is a Wallflower.
The characters in this book are very round. They each have their own story and have their own problems in life. Let’s start ...

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..., but not the adults. I am trying to save Mr. Horchak some time by prevented anger parent phone calls. I believe that parents would think is book is too sexual and possibly too inappropriate.
The truth prevails when change is presence. This is what I think the major theme of the story is. Change is difficult, but sometimes it’s necessary. This them can be as simple as a teaching changing their students seats to other students they don’t talk to; truth prevails that the teacher was fed up with all the talking in the classroom. Or this statement can be on a bigger scale. Hitler was conquering many other countries around Germany, changing the lives of many people; the truth was that he was thirsty for power and wanted to be seen as a ultimate supreme ruler. All in all there is many change in Perks of being a Wallflower, and that’s when the truth truly prevailed.