"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a novel that attaches to the early 90s. A time in which the Internet and the cell phone given the majority of life, social life were determined by real meetings and phone calls via landline. In this time when mixtapes were still important is Charlie and tries to find his place in life carousel. Until then, you might think you were dealing with an ordinary high school story of a man who is on the margins of society and suddenly rises and then falls again perhaps. But it's not that in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". It is rather a marginal figure, is in the great talent that nobody wants to see. Charlie seems almost invisible to its surroundings and rarely gets back what he gives others. He is one of those people who are sensitive, sensitive and do everything that their environment is happy, but nothing required in return, though he needs the recognition in his life.
And this fact makes this novel a special feature. Posted in letters that are written to an anonymous person who told Charlie from the first-person perspective his story. Relaxed, banned without much linguistic shenanigans, but simply on paper. There are here the simple words that make a reading difficult, because they are so honest and come from the heart. Sometimes you see yourself with downturned corners of the mouth before the book sitting, then again radiant and trembling and wants only the best for Charlie, who finally breaks out of its isolation and participate in the life.
As a protagonist, he reflects the anxieties of youth, youthful confusion and the joy that you entfindet and the sudden loneliness, if it does not work out as you would hoped. A Everyone finds the facets in Charlie that remind one of a self. And if it's not Charlie, there are other characters who go a fond. Regardless of whether it is the empathetic Sam or homosexual Patrick, who must conceal his love for a football player.
Stephen Chbosky at corner with its history, focuses on subjects that will utter no right. Whether it's the drugs out of desperation or testing his limits. The superficial peer pressure and join in, just so it is recognized in the group. The problems with the family, with the siblings, if one becomes greater. Or hiding his own sexuality, because it refuses to recognize the company. How should add Normaen society, but it can not of its essence. Everyone wants to be something special, everyone wants to be recognized, but at times the company does not want to take a way one is.
All topics find their place in this controversial novel full of profundity, who manages to capture the story of a wallflower in simple terms, that starts to life, with all its doubts, fears and confusions. And the eventual joy of living. It is this plasticity that makes reading difficult at times. Things look real, lifelike situations and the characters are as diverse and unique as the man himself.
Conclusion
Sensitive, authentic and with an eye for detail Stephen Chbosky has created a novel that faszniert one and continues to captivate. In "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" youth is shown as it is. Rau, confusing and often characterized by many fears. A near continuous story with depth and the statement that each of us can put a wallflower.
