The perks of being a wallflower blog post

I have recently been reading the book, “The Perks of Being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It was an interesting book about a young boy named Charlie who is a freshman in High school. In the beginning of the book, Charlie is still recovering from his best friend’s suicide and is having much trouble making friends, and dealing with the pressures that present themselves for a high school student. “Well I think Michael was a nice guy and I don’t understand why he did it. As much as I feel sad, not knowing is what really bothers me,” Charlie says, at a memorial service for his best friend Michael. He feels hopeless and clueless. He later makes it clear that the suicide impacted him more than he can even remember, and how he feels like he is in a way responsible for Michael’s death.

At a school football game, Charlie talks to two seniors from his woodshop class; Sam and Patrick.  He soon befriends them both, and they show him a whole other world outside of their school’s “popular group” As Charlie makes new friends, and experiences new things, he slowly starts to patch up the issues from his past, and really find himself. Patrick and Sam are some of Charlie’s first real friends, and they are some of the few people in Charlie’s lives who really accept him. When introducing Charlie to their friend Bob, Sam says, “’and this is our friend Charlie.’ And you won’t believe it. Bob hugged me!” these friends seemed to be really good for Charlie, especially because he is going through such a tough time in his life right now.

Sam plays a big role in this book. From the very beginning of the book Charlie has made it known that he likes Sam. However when he told her how he feels, she just said, “’You know you are too young for me, Charlie? You do know that?’” Both Sam and a few of Sam’s friends play big love interests in this book, which makes Charlie’s life a little bit more complicated.

This book shows how even through hard times, you can still find yourself. You can still be whoever you want to be, and go back to feeling whatever you used to feel. This book shows how even though Charlie went through such trauma at such a young age, he was still able to get to a good, mentally stable place by the end of it all.  He learned that no matter what obstacles may come your way, there is always a way to get through it and make the best of what you have, even if it is not much.