The Perks of being A Wallflower

Just to be honest, this is my favorite book of all time, so to end off the year I had to read it again. It outlines what everyone around us is going through, high-school, told by the letters of Charlie. Who is he giving the letters to? No one knows, but he just seems to be so stuck between trying to live his life and running away from his past pains that he muddles up inside and just seems to be too immature to understand. To be honest, this book in the beginning reminds me so much of the Catcher in the Rye, a book we read just this year that i loved! They both begin as a teenager being pushed around, not where they want to be an having witnessed pain in their life that they are bottling up. One detail of both books that really stood out to me was their Friends sudden suicide. Charlie discusses right from the beginning one of his Friends from middle school killing himself because he was picked on, tortured by his piers, and just how harmful that could be. This child, one of Charlie's only Friends took his own life, and Charlie was plagued by the fact that he could do nothing to stop it. In Catcher in the Rye, Holden remembers a time when a pier of his was being picked on. They were not that close but they knew each other and he had lend ed the boy a sweater. One day, a bunch of jocks sexually molested the boy and he was so disgusted he simply could not live with himself and jumped out the window. He was wearing the sweater Holden had lent him, yet he too could do nothing to stop it. Holden and Charlie both are in need of a Friend, someone brave, to stand up for them, to stop them from drowning, but what will they get! Cannot wait to Finnish this book!