The Perks of being a Wallflower by : Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of being a Wallflower is all written from a boy named Charlie, and his perspective of his own life. The book is about Charlie telling his own life story about how right now he just started high school and he just lost his best friend who committed suicide. Charlie is now starting a new life with new friends and many problems that come with having those friends. Charlie is one of those kids that doesn't really have much friends but then theres this senior in his shop class named Patrick but its a freshmen shop class which makes it funny because of the fact that Patrick is a senior. The first day of shop class Patrick thought it would be funny to make fun of the shop class teacher but then he walked in and asked for Patrick's name, told him that he could either call him Patrick or nothing. After that day Patrick was known as nothing for a while. A couple days later there was a football game and Charlie found nothing sitting with a girl, her name was Sam. Nothing recognized Charlie from shop class so he told him to sit down with him and Sam, and that day was when their friendship started. Right now I am reading about how Charlie has a crush on Sam but Sam had already told him that she is in a relationship and that Charlie is too young for her. Christmas just passed and Sam and Patrick had a party at there house, Patrick and Sam are brother and sister, and each year Sam and Nothing's friends have a party the last day before there winter/ christmas break. Charlie is starting to enjoy hanging around his new friends, but theres a little situation because Patrick is gay and is kind of dating this guy Brad which no one known he is gay and now the word is getting out about how people think is gay. Now, Patrick is having a hard time and Charlie has to be there for him as a friend even though he has his own problems at home. Read "The Perks of being a Wallflower" to find out whats been going with Charlie and his family. I will keep reading to find out anything else that happens next.

While I was reading my book The Perks of being a Wallflower I noticed that the author, Charlie, keeps mentioning something about his aunt that passed away a couple years ago. Charlie keeps saying that his aunt died because of him. In the book it explains that Charlie's birthday is the same day as christmas, and his aunt Helen was the only person that got him two presents every year. One year his aunt Helen told Charlie that his second present was in another place and she had to go drive and get it for him. Then hours later police showed up at his house and announced to his mother that Helen had passed away in a car accident. Charlie blamed himself for it and still does because he thinks she died getting his present. I think that there is something else behind him being so worried about his aunt Helen, and that its not just that she went to go get his present. I infer that later on in the story it is going to explain what kind of connections he had to his aunt Helen and why he has been blaming himself for her death for that passed few years.