The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Essay

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My previous work as a research student stood on the understanding of the perception of the TV viewers of programmes made for the purpose of relaying information. Accordingly, the said information had to be either progressive and self-exposing or somewhat labyrinthine, in order to have an effective outcome on the targeted audience. Therefore, I specifically focussed upon the work of the writer and reporter, David Simon, who wrote his fictions as he would write an article for a newspaper. Self-exposing for his articles and labyrinthine for his screenplays but both progressive and without pushing his personal point of view upon the story. This way, the viewers are bound to interpret the relayed information by their own means, usually associated …show more content…

Ironically, we can retrace its existence, nowadays, mostly through the contemporary English literature. Stephen Chbosky is the first author who got me creatively interested in this genre. His best-selling novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, published in 1999, is a reference to the “Bildungsroman”. After its critically acclaimed release in the United States, it was introduced in the literature program of several American high schools, though subjected to the disapproval of several Parents Associations and religious groups (due to its dire representation of depression, sexuality, and bullying among the American teenagers). Hence, The Perks of Being a Wallflower became a classic in the genre, such as its predecessors To Kill a Mockingbird or The Catcher in the …show more content…

It, indeed, does inform the way teenagers transition from their naïve world of adolescence to the harsh reality of the adult world, mostly in the western civilisation. Thus, I want to base my research on better understanding this effect of the coming-of-age culture in the English speaking countries, mostly the United States. This country based a big part of its way of educating its youth into adulthood through contemplating fiction and cultural

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