Charlie hopes to get out of his head and into the real world, participating in life instead of just watching it fly by. Read the cult-favorite coming-of-age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking. Charlie has a severe mental breakdown and ends up hospitalized.Ĭharlie's final letter closes with feelings of hope: getting released from the hospital, forgiving his aunt Helen for what she did to him, finding new friends during sophomore year, and trying his best not to be a wallflower. Buy a cheap copy of The Perks of Being a Wallflower book by Stephen Chbosky. Unfortunately, a disturbing family secret that Charlie has repressed for his entire life surfaces at the end of the school year. He creates his own soundtrack through a series of mix tapes full of iconic songs, reads a huge stack of classic books, and gets involved in the Rocky Horror Picture Showaudience-participation culture.Ĭharlie has a relatively stable home life, though, with supportive, if distant, parents to fall back on. He also overcomes his chronic shyness and approaches a classmate, Patrick, who, along with his step-sister Sam, become two of Charlie's BFFs.ĭuring the course of the school year, Charlie has his first date and his first kiss, he deals with bullies, he experiments with drugs and drinking, and he makes friends, loses them, and gains them back. (Kind of like when we write letters to Paul Rudd before we go to sleep.)Īt school, Charlie finds a friend and mentor in his English teacher, Bill. To lessen the fear and anxiety of starting high school alone, Charlie starts writing letters to a stranger, someone he heard was nice but has never met in person. A reader enjoying The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
It is young adult fiction and a coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Charlie, a freshman in high school.
Fifteen-year-old Charlie is coping with the suicide of his friend, Michael. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is Stephen Chbosky’s first novel and was published in 1999.
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