Perks of being a wallflower

    The book I choose this last six weeks was The Perks of Being A Wallflower. The author of this book is Stephen Chbosky and the first copyright date of the book was in February 1999. I think the type of book is a teen drama, but it actually is a young adult literature fiction novel. The plot of the book is a 15 year old who is a freshman in highschool who has a mental illness. Charlie the freshman has fallen in love with a senior named Sam who is one of his only friends (other the Patrick her stepbrother). Patrick and Sam two seniors take Charlie in while he griefs over the loss of his best friend Michael. Charlie then gets to experience a whole new life with his English teacher Ben and his few friends beside him. I think the overall them of the book is maybe friendship or really knowing who you are.
    The Perks of Being A Wallflower is told through Charlie a fifteen year old freshman who had gone through a tragedy of loosing his favorite Anut. Charlie explains his freshman year through letters he wrights to an anonymous person. I think the intended audience of this book is for teens or young adults (even though my mother read it). The author kept me interested in this book just by the way he made Charlie speak. The way Charlie spoke was soft and sweet and with every word he said was honest and lovely.
    I think the book effected me on how detailed and emotional it was. I didn't really relate to it in any certain way. I might have been to young to have something in common with this book because it had lots to do with advanced relationships. No of my ideas changed throughout the book. My personal view of the world is based on school and this book fits in with that because it at a high school with kids only one to five years older then me going through their own problems. To be honest I haven't really read any other books then ones I'm forced to read in class and even then I read like one or two chapters of the book before I "forget" to read it. So no, no memories have been remembered though this book.
    I praise the qualities of this book because it's well written and it's the only book I've ever read the whole thing and actually liked it. My recommendation on this book would for others to read it because it's so great. Why it's so great is that it's a well thought out story of a young guy with real world problems.

Jordan Avra
10/16/13
***** 5/5