THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
YOU SEE THINGS. YOU UNDERSTAND, AND YOU KEEP QUIET ABOUT THEM. YOU ARE A WALLFLOWER.
I could
say that this book is very dificult to understand, because is goes very deep on
the people's feeligs and minds, and also it adresses very devastating issues
with a lot of normality.
THE CHARACTERS
CHARLIE
(Logan
He is a 15 years old teenager.His best
friend, Michael, has commited suicide. He is very shy, and doesn't talk
too much. He often likes to listen people while they are talking. He wants to
be a writer, but he doesn't know what to write about. He felt in love with Sam,
but she is three years older than him. He goes to the pschicologist, because he
feels guilty of his aunt's death.
SAM (Emma Watson)
PATRICK (Ezra
Miller)
Patrick is Sam's stepbrother.
He is gay, and he is other boy's boyfriend, but the other boy doesn't want
anybody to know. Because of this, he have got his heart broken more than one
time.Patrick is Charlie's best friend, and they understand each other very
well.He loes taking part on The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
THE STORY
This story tells us the life of a
teenager, called Charlie. He narrates the story by letters that he writes, but
the reader don't know who is the addressee. Charlie is very reserved,quiet, and
on the school he haven't got any friend. One day,on a football match, he knew
Patrick and Sam. They changed his life forever...
Charlie's life is not as easy as it seems. He have got
a brother, that is on the university, and is s football star; and a sister,
that is very good student, but have got many problems with her boyfriend, that
don't trate her well. His mother is a very strong woman, that has fight for
taking her family along. His father is always working, and he is as quiet as
Charlie.
When Charlie, Sam and Patrick met, they invited
him to a party. There, he knew all the other friends: Mary Elizabeth (She talks
A LOT and she is very fighter), Alice (She likes stealing in the shops for
feeling naughty), Bob, Brad (Patrick's boyfriend) Craig (Sam's boyfriend), and
Peter (Mary Elizabeth's boyfriend).
With them, Charlie had his first experience with drugs
and alcohol, but also with love, friendship, and the most important: He had his
first experience as feeling part of a group.
As I mentioned before, Charlie wanted to be a writer. His literature
teacher, Bill, always gives him special homework and books to read, because he
thinks that Charlie is very special.
The winter pass, and they always had the same routine:
They go to see Pat and Sam on The Rocky Horror
Picture Show, then,
dinner at the Big boy's (a restaurant), and, every friday, a party. They
pass very good moments, but also some very bad. Sam kissed Charlie, Patrick was
depressed and drunk because of his problems with Brad, Mary Elizabeth was
Chalie's girlfriend (when the broked, Charlie had to ''break'' with the group
for a week), Craig deceived Sam, and he had troubles with his family.
When the winter ended, it was Charlie's more dreaded moment: Sam,
Patrick, and his sister are going to university. He will be alone! He was very
sad, but he had to let them go, let them build their new lives, because, as he
said, things change, and friends leave, and life doesn't stop for anybody. At
the end, they found the root of Charlie's schhizophrenia: His aunt, abused of
him when he was a child. Charlie did not deserved that. Charlie only wanted to
feel infinite on the car with Sam and Pat, read Kill a nightingale (one of his
favorite books), love, and be loved.
WE ACCEPT THE LOVE WE THINK WE DESERVE
Sometimes life isn't perfect. Life is like a
chocolate's box... you never know what you are going to get.
Charlie's life wasn't perfect,but at the end he got
his piece of hapiness because...
IN THAT MOMENT,I SWEAR WE WERE INFINITE
NB: I Haven't explained too many things
about the anecdotes during the winter bacause I didn't wanted to ruin the book
to anybody...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5rh7O4IDc0 (a link to the trailer of the movie)
Lucía Celdrán Noguera
