5 Reasons Why Perks of Being A Wallflower was a good book
1. It was a story about growing up
In Perks, you learn about the daily struggles of growing up as a teenager from Charlie’s perspective. You get to fully understand what it’s like to be a high school student from his point of view by learning about not having friends to start out high school, making new friends, and parties.
2. The way it was written
The way that this book was written, was extremely interesting to me. Instead of it being just an actual book, you get to learn about Charlie’s life through letters that he has sent out to a random person. This format was very cool to me because I did not expect this going into the book, I thought it was going to be a normal story like all books do, but I was caught off guard in one of the most pleasant ways possible. When I first started reading and noticed this, I thought I was going to hate the idea of it being written in letter form because I have never read any book like that before, but I was wrong. It was very interesting to me and I enjoyed hearing all of his thoughts.
3. The main character went through a huge change
In this book, Charlie, the main character started out his new year at high school by being, as you would say, a very shy person. He came into school and didn’t have very many friends at the beginning due to the fact that he was very shy. He didn’t talk to anybody and nobody talked to him. But, after a while, Charlie makes 2 new friends and his life was forever changed. Charlie was no longer the shy kid in the back of the classroom, he was out doing something with his life, taking risks, having fun. It was very fun to watch Charlie go from the kid that nobody knew to being one a very social, outgoing kid. This is the reason why Charlie is my favorite literary character.
4. This book is very relatable and real
Usually, books that are written about high school avoid some of the many problems that can occur with some teenager’s lives. For example, this book talked about how Charlie had gone through major depression at this book due to the reason his friend killed himself, social awkwardness, making new friends, trying drugs and alcohol and going out to parties. This book captured it, in the best possible way. This book made me feel as if I was at these parties with them, experiencing it. The characters in this book were all very relatable as well, you can’t not fall in love with this book.
5. The buildup of Charlie and Sam’s relationship
This book handled the situation of love between two people, better than I have ever experienced. It talked about how from day one, Charlie had always liked Sam and that he wanted her in every way possible, but it took a while for Sam to feel the same way back to him due to her having a boyfriend in the midst of all of this. It was very interesting hearing about all of these thoughts through Charlie’s perspective and that is the reason why it was so raw and real to me because you got to through a head of a love-crazed teenage boy and it was very well done. This was the reason I stayed reading was so that I could hear about how their relationship ends up, and I don’t want to spoil anything, but wow. It was good.
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