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The book I chose to talk about today is the Perks of Being A Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky. The genre of this book is young-adult fiction. This book is formatted in a way that there are no chapters, but there are different letters. The entire book is letters written to someone who is never really revealed throughout the book. The letters are written by Charlie, a fourteen year-old boy who is about to enter high school in Pittsburgh, PA, in the year 1991. Charlie is depressed and he is a very shy person who has absolutely no friends because his only friend in middle school passed away. Throughout the book, Charlie becomes friends with two seniors; Sam and Patrick, who are siblings. Charlie gets into a conflict with his girlfriend and his best friend Sam, and basically the only friends that he had gained, he loses and he gets pretty bad. He starts to have hallucinations of his aunt that passed away and he ends up in a mental hospital.
The book follows the life of Charlie as he goes through living the life of a teenager who makes mistakes but creates memories along the way. I think that out of the many themes in this book, the one that sticks most with me is friendship. I think that friendship is what helped Charlie through his depression and friendship helped him grow up.
I really liked this book because it was so well-written that you can't help but relate to a lot of the things that happen to the characters. I also really enjoyed this book because every event in the book was so interesting and either really cute and funny or really sad and sob-worthy. The event that I remember the most is when Charlie, Sam, and Patrick drove through a tunnel, blasting "The Beatles" because it was a turning point for Charlie, it was when he realized that he and a lot of very simple things that he should be smiling about. I would recommend this book to everyone who is in middle school because this book really is an eye-opener and it is a very sentimental book.
Hi, my name is Mia from Ms. Miller's class in Idaho. I really like this book as well and I'm glad to here from someone else who did. I think you could've explained maybe more of what Charlie goes through, but overall this was a good review over this book. I really like how you wrote about the turning point of the three blasting "The Beatles". It was my favorite part. Nice job!!
ReplyDeleteWow, this was so informative. Great job!!!!!!! :)
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