Name: _________________________ The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Reading/Presentation Schedule Directions: You will be assigned reading each night. For each date of reading‚ there will be 2-3 student presenters whose responsibility it is to know their assigned reading extremely well. As a presenter‚ you will be responsible for leading the discussion for your section for 10 minutes. (That does not mean you are talking for 10 minutes‚ but that you are asking questions and
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower; a Timeless Movie with the Use of Symbolizing Time The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a timeless movie directed by Stephen Chbosky. There are so many little and precise detailing that goes into the movie to make it well done on so many scales. There are lots of forms of film elements used and shown throughout the movie‚ but one particular symbol focuses on is the use of clocks and how it helps shape the movie and the idea Chbosky is trying to get across. The scenes
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The perks of being a wallflower Source: Fictional novel Release date: 1st February 1999 Author: Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a set of fictional diary entries written by Stephen Chbosky. Charlie is the adolescent narrator who is in his tenth year of high school. Charlie decides to write anonymous letters to someone simply because he wants someone to listen and to not question his thoughts. The letters began after his only friend Michael committed suicide. Not belonging
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thigh‚ he becomes scared and tells her he is not ready. The next day‚ he experiences a flood of emotions and is bombarded by memories of his aunt Helen touching him the way that Sam did. In the epilogue‚ it emerges that Helen had sexually molested him when he was little‚ but his love for her caused him to repress these memories. Charlie is admitted to a mental hospital‚ and after his release‚ Sam and Patrick come to see him. Charlie comes to terms with his past saying "We don’t get to choose where we
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shy‚ awkward‚ or excluded at a party. Charlie is a wallflower and his friends recognize that too. According to Charlie’s friend Patrick‚ “He’s a wallflower… You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand” (Chbosky 37). In the book The Perks of being a wallflower Charlie the main character is more of an outcast than a lot of teenagers who are in high school. He’s a individual who needs someone to tell him and show him how to ‘participate’. So what does it mean to be a Wallflower? That’s
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the symbol of the average teenager and their struggles to be accepted amongst others and amongst themselves. Author Stephen Chbosky exemplifies this teen struggle by depicting an introverted and self-deteriorating character named Charlie explains his experiences by writing a series of journal entries to an anonymous source. He begins to write shortly after the tragic suicide of his best friend Michael and explains that he anticipates his first year of Highschool
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The perks of living in the 21st century Society’s deranged. There is no way to put it lightly‚ because it is. Between the mind numbing reality shows about partying‚ to the 80-pound model on every magazine we pick up. These crazy things have distorted our minds and have become our society’s norm. 90% of women are unhappy with their bodies‚ and 95% of teen girls think they’re fat. Is there not something wrong with that? For years and years our lives have been run by unrealistic role models and
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In my attempt to investigate the personality of Charlie in the process of growing‚ I utilise Carl Jung’s concept of psychological types of introversion personality as the conceptual framework of my study. By finding in Charlie being introverted in term of conscious and unconscious‚ this paper hopes to discover how Charlie’s past event made him suffers and it is a form that leads him to become introverted. In this chapter‚ Psychological types which is introversion personality in analytical psychology
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky‚ Stephen: Pocket Books UK‚ 2009) is a novel set sometime in the 1990’s‚ and focuses on the life of Charlie‚ a troubled fifteen year old boy who is just trying to find his place in the world. The book is written in the form of letters written from Charlie to an unknown ‘friend’. Many controversial issues are dealt with throughout the course of the novel but Chbosky writes in such a way that makes the book and its characters relatable and likable. Charlie
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower John A******* Mrs. Sisk 7th May 10‚ 2013 I loved my book‚ “Perks of Being a Wallflower”‚ for the following reasons‚ because of the characters. I love the main character Charlie and his friends. I love the setting. And I love how they ended the book in the hospital. I love the characters because I can relate a lot to Charlie‚ since he’s a freshman in high school‚ like me. And how he was scared of High School. In the beginning of the book it said he was very
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