Notes on:perks of Being

Notes on the Perks of being a Wallflower

Suggested topic: A Teenager's Journey to Aduthood. (or: The journey motif in the Novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower")

What makes this book an epistolary novel? What does this mean?

The Perks of Being a Wallflower addresses many issues that teens face as a part of their adolescence. Make some notes about how Charlie (and other characters) deal with these issues. You may want to record the names of the characters who have these problems and/or how these characters must face them as a result of other characters' lives, roles, beliefs, choices and limitations.

Social anxiety:

Dating:

Friendship:

Grades:

Teacher-student relationships:

Parent-child relationships:

Problems at home:

Divorce:

Violence:

Hazing:

Depression:

Suicide:

Death:

Physical abuse:

Sexual abuse:

Drug abuse:

Alcoholism:

Other:

N.B. You may treat all these as stumbling blocks or issues one has to deal with or discover as one takes a voyage to adulthood. Sometimes we stumble.. or at other times, we are able to hurdle these.

Research Question: In what ways did the recurring motifs in the pop culture references mentioned in Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" reveal Charlie's inner psyche to the reader?

This paper intends to show how the recurring motifs in the pop culture references mentioned in Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" reveal Charlie's inner psyche to the reader. As an epistolary novel, the story directly displays the protagonist's conscious thoughts since he is the one writing or typing the letters. With this, the plot progression of the novel is revealed in every letter that Charlie writes as the different aspects of life are shown through his eyes. However, what this paper's task is to explain what Charlie does not directly mention in his letters. Through the varied social and cultural media he mentions, there is a hidden subtext within that can be analyzed. This writer aspires to decode the meaning Charlie has created from the text of the media used in the story as tools for interpreting or understanding Charlie as a character