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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