The Perks Of Being A Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky

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The Perks Of Being a Wallflower In the dramatic fiction novel The Perks Of Being a Wallflower, author Stephen Chbosky composes the story with stylistic devices, diction and structural elements that establish the mood of reflection, but also immense sadness, hatred and joy in the early 90’s in a Pittsburgh suburb. Chbosky chooses very strong diction to establish the mood of sadness, and reflection. He uses words like “terrible, (90) “stern,”(26), “killed,” (90) and “mistake”(91), that all talk about Charlie’s Aunt, named Helen, who passed away. He loved Aunt Helen so much and misses her a lot. Charlie talked about the memories he had with Aunt Helen and the day she passed away. (Charlie is the main character). Aunt Helen had died in a car accident, and he thought the police officers had made a mistake of who died because of the bad weather, but later he finds out she actually passed away, and he was heartbroken. …show more content…

The narrator talks about Brad, who is being beaten with a belt by his abusive dad because, Brad’s dad had caught Brad with another guy named Patrick together. “He wanted to say “Stop” and “You’re killing him.” (147) That hyperbole implies that his dad was hitting him pretty hard, but wasn’t actually killing him. There were also similes in the book like “The outside lights were on and it was snowing, and it looked like magic.” (65) Charlie was at Sam’s house, a girl he is in love with, and it was snowing outside. He used the word snowing and compared it to the word magic, using the word like. This simile gives readers a mental picture of it snowing outside, and how pretty snow is. This simile applied how pretty it looked, when it was snowing

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