THE PERKS OF BEING A
WALLFLOWER
"So this is my life.
And I want you to know that I am both happy
and sad and I m still trying to figure out how that could be"
Charlie" is the alias of the adolescent narrator of the novel, who is about to begin his
first...
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THE PERKS OF BEING A
WALLFLOWER
"So this is my life.
And I want you to know that I am both happy
and sad and I m still trying to figure out how that could be"
Charlie" is the alias of the adolescent narrator of the novel, who is about to begin his
first year of high school.
The novel is presented through letters that Charlie writes to
an anonymous person about whom he has heard the girls at school talk fondly.
Charlie begins his freshman year apprehensive as a result of the death of his only
good friend Michael.
Michael committed suicide several months before while they
were still in middle school.
Charlie does not feel that he can lean on his parents or
older siblings for support, because they never truly understood him.
He also
explains that the only relative that he ever felt close to was his Aunt Helen, but she
was killed in a car accident on his seventh birthday.
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