https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4 By Colin Fegely en-us 2018-12-18 17:45:35 UTC 2025-12-05 18:59:39 UTC hello@padlet.com cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315625276 “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a look into the forgotten, disturbing, and uncomfortable points of teenage life. Throughout Chbosky’s all too realistic  fiction novel ideas of date rape, drug abuse,  molestation, childhood trauma,  death, and ignorance. Charlie is a freshman in an unnamed high school, the story opens up to the suicide of Charlie's closest friend, although the death of a friend seems important it is glossed over, showing how Charlie chooses to ignore trauma instead of facing it directly. Charlie hiding and ignoring traumatic events becomes a common theme in the book examples include, being molested by Aunt Helen,  the death of his closest friend, and being the witness to abuse on multiple occasions. The running conflict of this story is understanding intimacy, Charlie has been taken advantage of on multiple occasions, through the novel the only positive relationship he seems to have are with his teacher Bill.  In the epilogue it becomes clear that Charlie has stopped ignoring his past  and has put value into his own voice instead of blindly following what someone else wants.]]> 2018-12-18 17:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315625276 cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315627255 The book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky tells the story of Charlie and his journey through life as an emotionally broken teenager. The Perks of Being a Wallflower begins by going over the death of his closest friend at the time. While seemingly important it becomes insignificant farther into the book.  Later, Charlie finds a new group of friends in Sam and Patrick.  From this point forward in the novel we get to witness the development in Charlies friendships while things outside of his life get worst and worst.  The main conflict in the text at this point is between Charlie and his own lack of personal care.

]]> 2018-12-18 17:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315627255 cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315629567 2018-12-18 17:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315629567 cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315631684 "We accept the love we think we deserve."

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” 

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.” ]]> 2018-12-18 18:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315631684 cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315632824 This book is an interesting and thought provoking story for any young adult trying to get a grasp of what’s going on around them. Through Charlie’s letter  you can find an accurate depiction of high school life that holds up after 19 years.  Every character in this book has to overcome hardship, and is written well enough to have individual problems just as challenging as Charlie’s. 

]]> 2018-12-18 18:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315632824 cfegely21 https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315633858 The song I picked to represent this book was "Drugs With Friends" by Car Seat Headrest. The song portrays to me the feeling of being with friends and not feeling like you belong. Which I think is very similar to the feelings Charlie goes through throughout the book]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cfegely21/s4emlune52f4/wish/315633858