Analysis Of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The Perks of Being Wallflower Themes
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky is a story about the life of a teenager called Charlie. The story takes place in the early 90’s and let usexperience through Charlie’s words his complicated high school life. Different and emotional moments take place in this book and finding a main theme is not easy. That’s why I’m writing about the mainthemes in my opinion. This themes include friendship, love, and coming of age, which in a way, they are all related.
When this whole story starts Charlie has no friends. He talks about how his bestfriend committed suicide and his other friend, who is a girl, changed since then and now she just flirts with boys and they don’t even talk anymore. This story truly starts when Charlie starts beingfriends with Patrick and Sam, who are step-siblings. This friendship may seem weird to most of us because Patrick and Sam were seniors and Charlie was only a freshman. The truth is, Charlie didn’t fitin with the people his age but Patrick, Sam, and their group of friends accepted, cared, and loved Charlie for who he truly was. They introduce Charlie to so many new experiences and without them thisstory wouldn’t have turned out the way it did, probably there wouldn’t be a story at all.
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie has no fear on trying new things, even if those things areactually bad for him. He experiences drugs, tobacco, and alcohol with no reservations. One of these reasons may be because Charlie has had very bad social experiences before. Not enough love. His family isnot affective and he hasn’t had a good social interaction; this kind of aspects can make a kid grow up to try a lot of drugs and other addictions. His new friends are the ones who introduce him,maybe in an unintentional way, to these new things. But instead of letting Charlie hold on to this habits, they take care of Charlie and show him love as he learns to love back, which is probably why...