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.      

Stephen Chbosky

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.