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Charlie is a very confused teenager. He has a hard time finding himself being new to high school. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” (Chbosky 11).  While he has friends and is living his best life,  he still wants to find the better understanding of things and feels that things feel unfinished or unsatisfying in his life, as if somethings missing

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Charlie has a hard time being social and communicating with others. ""He's a wallflower...You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand." (Chbosky 95). This quote helps illustrate how charlie has a hard time interacting with people and would rather observe people and try to understand him. His friend points out that even though he is not interacting he still understands and is still valuable to his friends

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Because charlie is so kept to himself people find him to be anti social and often ignore him and who he could be. "Charlie. Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I just want you to know that you're special...and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has." (Chbosky 425). This quote helps us see that because people often don't take the time to try and get to know or understand people but charlie takes in everything and thinks about things making him different. People really don't see that and when they do they realize how special charlie really is.

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"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them." (Chbosky 497). Charlie is coming to terms with the hardships he faced in the past that caused him to always try to find the hidden meaning and always try to understand to world around him. He finally lets go and realize it's in the past and can't affect his future if he doesn't let it which is a big moment of character development in the book.

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The word "infinite" is an example of diction that the author uses in the book a few different times. This word has a lot of meaning to it as it represents Charlie and the trails he faced as a kid. When the author uses this word it helps show us that as Charlie is making new friends and partying he feels that he finally can live again and that his life was everything he could want it to be in that moment, causing it to feel "infinite".

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"... Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves." (Chbosky 38). This is a metaphor Chbosky uses to show us that Charlie likes Sam. In the quote Charlie says when Sam stands that her dressed move like the ocean waves, the oceans waves being something of beauty. Which relates to his feelings for Sam and how things as simple as standing up capture her beauty.

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" I love you." (Chbosky 69). While this might not seem like figurative language and something that everyone says, it is a big deal that Charlie was able to say this to Sam. This is another use of diction that the author puts in to show how Charlie is feeling. Charlie has a really hard time connecting with people so the fact that Charlie says I love you to Sam really shows how much he cares for her and actually feels a connection with someone which he hasn't since he was a kid.

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"And my mind played hopscotch." (Chbosky 98). The author uses this metaphor to show us that Charlie was unsure of his decision which is very rare because he always is trying to think things out and understand things. Also, his mind is not actually playing hopscotch he is just saying how he was confused and unsure of his decision.

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Before Charlie went to high school he only had one friend. His only friend ended up committing suicide and leaving Charlie with no one. "Well, I think that Michael was a nice guy and I don't understand why he did it. As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me" (Chbosky 4). This ends up being a long term conflict for Charlie because due to his friends suicide he started keeping to himself because he felt so alone and helpless. Charlie also didn't understand why his friend did it and so Charlie tries to understand other things in the world to make up for it, which is another reason why hes so quite.

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Charlie becomes friends with seniors which ends up causing a ton of conflicts and is another on going conflict in this story. He meets two siblings, Sam and Patrick. They are both seniors and through out the book Charlie is mentored by them and soon becomes a part of their friend group. Charlie slowly starts to fall in love with Sam but she is a senior and it wouldn't work out because Charlie is a freshman. "I love you." (Chbosky 69). This quote clearly shows that Charlie is in love with Sam. This causes conflict later on as it affects his other relationships as he is still in love with Sam

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Charlie started dating a girl from the friend group almost by accident. Charlie didn't have the heart to tell her that he was really in love with Sam so he pretended to like the other girl and continue dating her. In a game of truth or dare someone dares Charlie to kiss the prettiest girl in the room and instead of kissing his "girlfriend" Mary Elizabeth he kisses Sam. This causes everyone to get upset with Charlie and they stopped talking to him for a bit.

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Patrick is gay and is secretly seeing the captain of the football team who is closeted. (doesn't tell people that hes gay, doesn't want people to know). This ends up leading to conflict. Patrick is abandon by Brad and confronts him about it in the lunch room in front of Brads friends. Brad denies knowing, getting Patrick upset. His friends start making fun of him and beating him up. Charlie interferes and hits them back for Patrick causing them to stop.

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One of the many themes we see in this story is friendship. Charlie lost his only friend he had from suicide in 8th grade. He was alone and was just existing until he met Sam and Patrick. They showed him true friendship and helped him come out of his shell. This story is based on the friendships he forms with them and how their friendship changed him and helped him become who he did at the end of the book.

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Another theme we see is Adolescence and Transformation. Charlie goes threw many life-altering experiences in his childhood that made him the way he is. He get molested as a kid, lost his best friend, all things that caused him to have trouble socially and intimately. As he goes through his first year of high school he grows from a emotionally numb person to an affectionate person with many healthy relationship.

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Trauma, Abuse, and Mental Health are other big themes. Charlie at a young age was abused and went through trauma. This caused him to have ptsd when he was older in high school. As he battled with these problems he met people who helped him get through it and changed for the better. This theme was shown when Charlie talks to Sam about the abuse he went through as a kid and the ptsd episodes he would have and Sam was there to comfort him.

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A main theme shown was Healing and Self-discovery through Literature and Writing. Charlie expresses his trails and troubles he faces in letters to his friend that killed himself. While his friend obviously never answered he wrote how he felt almost as if it was a way to cope, like therapy. He showed as he got better by finding more friends and tried making more sense of the world.

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“Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.” Charlies English teacher has his first serious conversation with Charlie. He talks about how Charlie feels he doesn't deserve love because of what happened to him when he was a kid. This quote is important because Charlie wasn't let anyone become close to him due to the neglect he felt as a kid. By his teacher saying this to him it helps him open his eyes and let people become close to him.

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"When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing.
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite." This is one of the main quotes in the book that people know about. In this moment Charlie finally felt free from all his struggles and was happy. With his new friends he was able to stop being in the past and felt like he could live forever and be "infinite"

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“I guess I’m pretty emotional.” This quote is super important because Charlie was known as a very emotionless person and numb from everything. This quote shows character development because he now he has feelings and he can express that with his new friends.

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“I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.” While this quote was towards the beginning of the book it helps us see how hopeless Charlie was feeling after losing his only friend. He had nothing but a Twinkies to live for, showing just how empty he felt.

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Charlie’s mood can swing radically between depressed and elated. Sometimes he will feel lonely and feel like he has no one, other times he feel like he is invincible. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” When he says this it shows how alone he felt and how he didn't understand things so he was confused of how he could be happy and didn't understand it but still accepted it

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“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.” The authors tone in this shows how the words "love" and "like" are used so often. The word love is used very often and is often throw around without using the true meaning of it. So by him saying people often love each other but not like each other is like saying people get connected very easily or quickly and don't take the steps to get there, almost like it's fake.

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“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough” There's a feeling of satisfaction Charlie feelings when he is with his new friends that the author expresses with different moods. The mood of this quote is joyful and happy. We know this because Charlie is happy with everything and with his friends and happy that he finally isn't alone which is enough for him

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"My dad is not a big drinker at all, but when he has to spend time with my mom's family, he gets 'loaded'..." (Chbosky, 57) This is a good example of tone and diction the author uses to show that his dad doesn't like his mothers family and has to be drunk to be around them happily