Perks of Being a Wallflower

And all the books youve read have been read by new(prenominal) hatful. And all the songs youve loved have been heard by other people. And that miss thats pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would tactual sensation great because you are describing unity. (p. 96). The Perks of Being a Wallflower written by Stephen Chbosky was published by MTV books and Pocket Books on February 1st, 1999. Its classified as Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction and Epistolary novel. Epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents.Anne Frank is a type of Epistolary novel. Un care Anne Frank, this one is written in operate of letters, not a diary. In this novel you can see how Charlies life changes throughout his freshman year. How he deals with all the problems he faced, he faces, and hell face. In a unknown setting, the novel begins August 1991 with a teenage boy going by the alias Charlie, writing to an unknown friend. I just need to know that someone out in that location listens and understands and doesnt try to sleep with people even if they could have.I need to know that these people exist. (p. 2). He heard someone at school intercourseing nigh this anonymous friend, and he thought it would be someone nice to talk to. He specifically asks this friend to not try to find his accredited identity. Charlie has begun his freshman year while his brother is at Pennsylvania solid ground University and his sister is at her senior year. We learn that his silk hat friend, and only friend, attached suicide before he started writing these letters, leaving Charlie alone in high school.His favorite person in the world, his aunt, also died when he was 7 years old. He states repeatedly that something bad happened to her, but he doesnt mention what, because it brings him to a bad place. After she died he doesnt recover his life for a year, and he had been different ever since. As he starts freshman year, he is an outcast, until he meets Sam and Patrick. They introduce him to an electric, open-minded, hard-partying life, and soon Charlie starts enjoying his life. And at that moment, I swear we were infinite. (p. 39).Experiences that Charlie and his family and friends go through and the topics explored throughout the novel involve suicide, difficult/abusive relationships, drug use/smoking, sex, abortion, child abuse/trauma, the struggles of homosexuality, and the inapt times of adolescence, such as first kisses and first girlfriends. Charlie is a trouble teenage boy. He is insecure and shy, because he just lost his best friend, and doesnt know to deal with school alone. Since the death of his aunt, which he takes the blame, contempt everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I cant stop thinking what I know.And I know that my aunt Helen would fluid be alive today if she just bought me one present like everyone else. (p. 92), he has been different, sort of out of sync. Hes very sentimental, and he analyzes everything too much. Every tiny detail, is a big deal for him. He loves music and literature. His teacher gives him books to read and write bout, such as To go through a Mocking Bird. His aunt molested him at the age of 7, but he never told anyone, because he loved so very much.