Stephen Chbosky author
of his Perks of Being a Wallflower (his most famous book) has tried a
risky style of writing, He has made a very broad range of characters, developed
a certain feel to the book, and finally he made the book relatable to a surplus
of types of people in the book Perks of Being a Wallflower. This
book will make you look at high school in a different way. It lets you see from
the point of view that sees but is not seen. I would recommend this book to
people as long as you they can handle a couple of awkward moments.
The style he uses in
this book is in letter format. The letters are sent to a friend that we never
actually find out who it is. And the letters are written from the main
characters point of view. Each letter has an opening of Dear Friend, and a
closing of love always, Charlie. At first the letters were pretty annoying,
then once you get used to them, then it’s pretty normal. But every piece in the
book is either in the past or future there is no present. That is one of the
few things that get on my nerves. So over all the style of writing was new and
inventive and it’s much better than just another dear diary style of writing.
This style make you feel like he is talking to you, the reader.
He covers a surplus of
types of kids in high school. There’s the outspoken jock, the popular bossy
sister, the gay friend, the idolized older aunt, and the shy intelligent person
who loves to read. The clashes between all these characters lead to very
interesting relationships, conversations, and events between them. He developed
these characters indirectly; this gave me other information that was useful. I
feel like he was basing the characters off of people that he actually knows or
knew as a kid. He made the events seem like they actually happened to him and
the book is his way of expressing his emotions. For example, when all of his
friend’s graduate he goes into detail about he feels like there leaving forever
but they’ll be coming back at the end of the summer.
When you first pick up
a book you look at the cover and you judge it, and I know everyone does, but
with this book you really can’t it’s just a pair of shoes and a green cover, I
mean you really have to waste more time on thinking of what to judge it on than
it would take most people to start reading and read enough to actually know
what this book is about. Then once you actually read the book for five minutes
you could judge the book on the writing, or the character. Now I finally get to
the main character of the book, he is a socially awkward kid whose best friend
killed himself at the end of eight grade. He is going to be a freshman in high
school, and he doesn’t know anyone. He meets some friends and that is what the
story is about, but this is one of my other problems with the book, the kid
does not have a filter, he talks about private this and he just says them
without any regard for who is listening, it’s kind of annoying.
So
over all I think it’s a good book, only with a few hiccups. I would recommend
this to family and friends, but only if they were nice to me.
