Who is this so
called friend? Who is he/she writing to? Why? Have something happened? If
something has happened, what is it then? Who told him/her that this person
would understand? Who could this person sleep with if he/she wanted to? Why didn’t
this person sleep with that person? Why shouldn´t the person figure out who he
is?
A lot of
questions came to mind already after three sentences. Later in the book it says
that it´s Charlie who writes the letter, but to whom? There are much proof that
he´s writing to a stranger. In the beginning he says:
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands…” (The perks of being a Wallflower, Stephen Chabosky. Page 8)
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands…” (The perks of being a Wallflower, Stephen Chabosky. Page 8)
He´s referring to
“someone”, in other word a stranger, someone he doesn’t know. At the same page he says: “I think you of all
people would understand that because I think you of all people are alive and
appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other people look to
you for strength and friendship and it´s simple. At least that´s what I´ve
heard” (The Perks of being a Wallflower, Stephen Chabosky. Page 8). Later in
the book he says: “Since you are older…”. (The Perks of being a Wallflower,
Stephen Chabosky. Page 44)
These three facts proofs:
These three facts proofs:
1.
That
the person he writes to is a stranger.
2.
It
is a person that people look up to, probably a popular student or teacher.
3.
The
person is older, therefore it could be an older student or an teacher
Somehow it
seems to be a person from Charlie’s school. Otherwise it wouldn´t be necessary
to be so anonymous. It truly makes sense to write to a stranger thought.
Because it´s easier to tell a complete stranger about your whole life, then to
tell your friends. Since it´s not a big chance that you would meet this
stranger. Charlie also changes the names of his friends and persons that he
meets, therefore that chance are even smaller.
Some characters
that Charlie talks a lot about are his sister and his brother. Charlie also
mentions his advanced English teacher Bill. Charlie seems to like Bill because
he trusts him, for example he tells Bill about his sister’s boyfriend, and what
he had done.
Ok!
ReplyDeleteClear references to the novel are made. Good! However, despite the many questions, what does the novel seem to be about? What about the title? Why do you think the author chose this title?
The book tells us about Charlie's life and what he thinks and Charlie has many thoughts. It´s interesting because many questions pop up in your head and you start to think really hard.
ReplyDeleteI would say that the writer want to tell us who reads the book, that it is different way of thinking. He wants us to think more about what life really means. Somehow I think that he wants to say “enjoy life, don´t make it more complicated than it is”. Even though I haven’t read that much a feeling in my body says that you should live life.
About the title, I think that he choose that title because Charlie is a wallflower and it´s his life that we get to follow. In the book we follow everything Charlie says, and therefore we can see “the perks” of being a wallflower. However, haven’t I decide if it´s good or bad to live as a wallflower.
I hope this covered everything that I had missed!
/Sofia
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