Thursday, December 5, 2013
Perks of Being a Wallflower setting
Right now I'm reading the book Perks of Being a Wallflower. The main character, Charlie, is a freshman in highschool and he is considered a misfit among the other students. So far this book mainly takes place during 1991 at school and some school football games. Charlie used to go to the school football games with his only friend, Michael. But Michael committed suicide so Charlie is left with no friends. Charlie continued to go to the football games but he went alone, until he met two seniors, Sam and Patrick. Sam and Patrick, were very friendly and befriend him and let him join their group of friends. The football game is a very important setting in this book because it began Charlie's friendship with Sam and Patrick. Sam and Patrick take Charlie to many parties where there are lots of drugs and alcohol. Most of Sam and Patrick's friends are very nice to Charlie but they are a bad influence on Charlie, they offer him drugs and alcohol and sometimes Charlie agrees to try some. When Charliewent to his first party with Patrick and Sam he described it as, "The party was in the basement of this house. The room was quite smokey, and the kids were much older. There were two girls showing each other their tattoos and belly button rings. Seniors, I think." (page 34, paragraph 1).
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I feel like the book can easily be compared to highschool right now. It sounds like a really good book! Would you prefer the book or the movie?
ReplyDeleteHey Lauren! I have always wanted to read this book, but never found the time. This book seems like it might be pretty relatable to many high school students. I'll probably read that next!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great book! I have heard many great things about this book and i think that i might end up reading this book next!
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds really good and I have heard a lot of really good things about it. I would also like to ask if you have seen the movie and if you have, do you like the book or the movie more?
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like it is very interesting. A text-to text connection i have is that It kind of reminds me of a book that our class read last year called whirligig. If your class did not read it, it's about a highschooler who really wants to fit in, so he drinks alchohal at a party and then he drives drunk and it completely changes his life. Is that similar to the message of the The Perks of Being Wallflower?
ReplyDeleteI actually just watched the movie and now I plan to read the book because I thought it sounded very interesting. I also think this could relate to some high school students.
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