conflict map

Conflict Map

+++++Charlie has no friends, because his best friend died, so he is an outsider.

He cries a lot because of this. He finds new friends and he gets a nominal member to be accepted.

I think it’s good that he found new friends, but in my opinion he never should get a nominal member, because they should like him how he is and not only because of the things that he does or not does.

+++++He falls in love with Sam, but she doesn’t want a relationship, although she gave him his first kiss.

He’s sad and cries. He’s in a relationship with Mary Elizabeth, but he still loves Sam.

Maybe he should distance himself from her and then, when he’ll have concluded this chapter of his life, they could be friends again.

+++++Charlie’s sister quarrels with her boyfriend and he hit her, because he lost his temper.

He apologizes for that and claims that it’d never happen again. She believes him and forgives him.

Maybe she should brake up with him. It depends on the relationship.

+++++Charlie tells his teacher the incident with his sister’s boyfriend. She hates him for that, because she said that it’s a secret.

She forgives Charlie.

In my opinion this was a good solution.

+++++Charlie watched a guy who raped a girl and then his sister came in and said he’s pervert. He didn’t know that the boy raped her till he tells it Sam.

He does nothing. Everybody knows it afterwards.

Maybe he ought to have kept this secret.

+++++Charlie’s sister gets pregnant from her boyfriend, but he doesn’t believe that it’s his baby.

She decides to abort the baby. She doesn’t say anything to her parents, only Charlie knows the secret.

It may be better, if she discusses it with her parents, before she makes her decision.

+++++Brad and Patrick make out sometimes, but they keep it secret. Brad’s father finds them making out and then Brad breaks up with Patrick.

Brad called Patrick a “faggot” and then they started an affray.

Patrick could take Brad to task. Violence is not a good solution.

+++++Charlie has to kiss the most beautiful girl in the room, but instead of kissing his girlfriend Mary Elizabeth, he kisses Sam.

Charlie said sorry to Mary Elizabeth, but it was too late.

He could talk to her earlier that he still loves Sam.

+++++Craig cheated on Sam.

She broke up.

Maybe they could find another solution. If there are no problems in a relationship, then you’d not break up I think. They could talk about their problems earlier.

+++++Charlie finds out that his aunt raped him when he was younger.

There’s nothing he can do anymore.

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book review

Book Review

The epistolary novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” was written by Stephen Chbosky in the 1990s. The book consists of a series of letters, which are written to a friend by the personal-narrator, a 15 years old teenager named Charlie. The story takes place in Pittsburgh. The book gives you an insight of a teenager’s life. It’s about introversion, abuse, teenage sexuality, the difficulties of adolescence and experiences with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.

Charlie has no friends, both most important persons of him died. His sister has a boyfriend and his brother is on a college. Bill, his teacher, gets important to him, because Bill always gives him good new books to read, but Charlie’s still alone. At a football match he gets new friends and so everything changes. He starts to go to parties, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes and take drugs. He falls in love with his friend Sam, but she doesn’t want to have a relationship with him. Charlie is very different from the others, he observes lots of things, many people entrust him secrets, he gives special presents, he is very sensitive and he cries a lot. At the end of the novel he has totally changed.

The book is very simple to read and in my opinion it’s really funny, how Charlie describes everything what he observes. The author made me feel like I’m in this fictional world and if Charlie had written these letters to me. I really liked the novel, because it’s something different from the other books and it makes fun to read it.

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description: charlie

Description: Charlie

The book is about Charlie, who is a 15 year old boy and writes letters to a stranger. He is a very sensitive and lonely person at the beginning, because his two most important attachment persons died. His best friend Michael committed suicide and his aunt Helen died a few months ago. Charlie is a person, that everybody would call wallflower. He reads a lot, loves music, is withdrawn and he cries a lot. He sees the world through the eyes of a child. His family is very important to him. He loves his parents, his brother and his sister, although there are some conflicts to deal with. Bill, Charlie’s teacher, gets important by and by to Charlie, because Bill gives him lots of books to read and writing exercises to do. Bill teaches him and Charlie’s spelling style gets better. At a football game he finds new friends, Sam and Patrick. Sam is very beautiful and he falls in love with her soon, but she doesn’t want to have a relationship with him, she only wants to be friends. With his new friends he starts to drink alcohol, do drugs and go on parties, because he thinks, he has to do that to be cool and accepted by the others. He is afraid of losing his friends or being alone and he cries a lot, but all in all he is happier than he was before. You can follow his psychological changing process during reading the book. At the end he becomes another person.

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character map charlie

Character Map Charlie

How does he look like?

like a 15 year old teenager (at the end: like a 16 year old teenager)
no information about his aspect

How does he act?

Charlie is very sensitive and he cries a lot (e.g. about his sister, after the fight with a bully etc.)
In my opinion he acts like a nominal member, because he does drugs, drinks alcohol etc. to be cool. He tries to be popular and hopes that everybody likes him.
I’d say he hasn’t much self-confidence.
He is also nice, makes special presents and his friends entrust him secrets.

How do other people react to him?

I think most people don’t think about him, because he’s a quiet and introverted person, a wallflower. Later in the book they might think he’s a strange person or a freak, because he’s weird.
He quarrels a lot with his sister at the beginning, but after some time he is the only person who she can trust.
His friend Sam is his unreachable dream girl. Charlie gets his first kiss from her.
Sam and Patrick are his friends and they changed his life, they took him to parties and showed him how to act with girls.
His parents don’t want to see his psychological and drug problems. He and his mother have a good friendship. His father is very strict, but he never beats his kids, because he’d been beaten in his childhood.

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exam correction

exam correction

Nowadays there’s a lot of violence in the whole world and in the media. In this text I’ll try to explain why there’s so much violence and I’ll make proposals how the violence among children can be reduced. Finally, I want to talk about my opinion about this topic.

I start with some theories about the causes of the increasing violence in the world. The first theory is that violence is an instinct which everybody has. That means it’s natural to have aggressions and we have to find a way to get a grip of our aggressions. The second theory says that violence is the result of an on-going learning process. In other words it is possible to make a aggressive or a moderate person out of every person. The last theory is that aggressiveness and consequently violence is the result of frustration. Every person gets frustrated sometimes, so we have to deduce our aggressiveness by doing sports or something else. For me all of these theories are plausible, so I do not really know the real reason for the violence in the world. I’d say that all of these theories are true and partly explain the cause for the increasing violence.

Now I’m going to tell you my proposals for reducing violence among children. In my opinion the most important point is the education. Parents should be a good role model for their kids and they should tell them that violence never can be a good solution. I think it’s also important that parents don’t let their kids watch violent movies of play violent video games, it’d be better if the children can go into nature and play. Another important point is the environment and the school. Every school should have a contact person for children to help them solving their problems without using violence.

I admit that Medved has a good point when he claims that violent films don’t mirror the reality of the average viewer. Like him I doubt that violent movies – especially if watched frequently – don’t have a mark on us. However, we live in a free country and we cannot forbid everything that may or may not be dangerous for some. Of course, non-violent films make lots of money too, but this is not an argument against violence in films. Finally, in contrast to him I think that it’s possible to escape this violence and reading about such films in magazines is quite different to watch them.

Finally I have to say that these different theories and opinions won’t ever disappear. So I think people will discuss this topic still in hundreds of years.