Analysis Of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for two cousins named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, who were both born in Brooklyn in 1905. Lee would eventually have seven children and Dannay would have three. Through hard work and cooperation these authors created several prominent mystery stories. The men started writing after entering a mystery writing contest for amusement when they were younger, and to their surprise, won! That very writing contest aided them in creating some of the greatest mystery books and the organization, “Mystery Writers of America.”

According to an article on the American Booksellers Association’s website, The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been announced as the “10 Most Frequently Challenged Books” by the American Library Association five times in the past ten years. (Finan). The novel is often challenged or banned in schools. Based off of the Marshall University’s website nine different states ranging from Florida to New York have deemed The Perks of Being a Wallflower too mature or unappropriate for students.

You keep quiet about them. And you understand” (Chbosky 37). In the book The Perks of being a wallflower, the main character Charlie is more of a non social outcast. More so than a lot of his peers in high school. He’s an individual who needs someone to communicate and demonstrate to him how to ‘participate’.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an American coming of age novel written by Stephen Chbosky. The aim of this story is to entertain the readers as well as educate them about the struggles teenagers go through in their high school years. This story targets teenage readers but it is more mature than most young adult literature and can be enjoyed by older readers as well. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book which was first published in 1999 and is still being published today.

“I think I was annoyed that no-one had ever told me this kind of thing might happen” (Earls, p.38). What do you do when everything you know is stripped away from you and you are thrown into a new and completely different life? Nick Earls deeply explores the idea of alienation throughout the book 48 Shades of Brown, as the central protagonist Dan takes a journey through his final year of school. Nick Earls effectively recreates the aloneness that all teenagers feel as they journey into adulthood. This theme of alienation from society is evident through the examination of characters, plot, setting and symbols.

While the English school boys on the island fall to the influence of the beast and evolve into demonic creatures, modern U.S. high school students are not much different. Many adolescents let unachievable standards set by the media and their own peers dictate their social lives, and as a result, many teenagers, depressed, resort to unhealthy methods of dealing with stress when they are unable to reach the set standards. Recently within our nation, we have encountered barrages of evidence suggesting that stress levels for minors keep reaching new peaks every year. In a speech to the Brookfield East student body regarding the state of Western civilization in 2018, William Golding would, predictably, lecture upon the threat of detrimental assimilating INFLUENCEs and the dangers of demagoguery to our society. William Golding, having served in World War II, knew about the egregious disasters that could arise from brainwashing, detrimental influences.

In the story Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Jeremy Fink is portrayed as a nerdy, germaphobe and clever 13 year old boy. Jeremy and his best friend, Lizzy, go on a hunt for four keys all over Manhattan when they get a box addressed to Jeremy from his dead father. The keys to the box are missing and he needs to open it by his thirteenth birthday. An example of Jeremy’s nerdiness is “...Lizzy would laugh at me for borrowing the eighth grade textbooks from the library to get a jump on my assignments…” (Mass 1).

The novel tells the story of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-years-old teenager that is being expelled from the 4th school up to the present. The cause of expulsion are the 4 exams he

Was Holden successful in his Journey This is an essay on whether or not Holden Caulfield is successful on his journey throughout the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by Jerome David Salinger. This book shows how hard it can be for teenagers that are going from an adolescent to adulthood. Holden, who is sixteen years old, has been kicked out of several schools. Pencey Prep. was the latest.

In the novel, Athletic Shorts, author Chris Crutcher uses the literary devices, characterization and tragedy, to set a dark mood for the story, which contrasts with the bright atmosphere created early in the book. Characterization plays a very large role throughout the storyline. Lionel and Neal, the two main characters, undergo many changes as the novel develops. Lionel begins going into high school as a comedic, fun kid who tends to annoy his father. His father is on the more serious end, while his mother seems to better understand Lionel.

Charlie is a 15-year-old Caucasian boy who is a freshman in high school. Charlie lives with his mother, father, and older sister. At school, Charlie deals with bullies, bad influences, and depression. He does not describe having very many friends at his school with exception to his two new friends that he recently met. Charlie reports both, feelings of happiness and sadness at the same time.