Perks of Being a Wallflower
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- Malayna Hawxwell
- Malayna HawxwellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower summativeHonors English 11aOctober 6, 2022
- The theme is no matter what struggles and mental health issues you go through in high school, there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.
- Towards the beginning of the story Charlie started facing issues. He was feeling lonely so he drove for the first time alone to see his Aunt Hellen’s grave. He’s not in the best mental state and he ends up crying. He then says, “I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this”(54). This portrays Charlie in a very bad place mentally and this is one of the many ups and downs he goes through as a high schooler. Although he may not know it quite yet, there will be a light at the end of the tunnel and he will be ok.
- The theme is no matter what struggles; you go threoufg in high school, there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.
- Charlie’s bedroom setting develops the theme of struggling with mental health. Whenever Charlie is in a dark place he goes to his room. This helps to accentuate the theme of issues Charlie faces. For example when his sister called him a freak he explained how he, “turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be”(18). His room represents a place of darkness and isolation and is associated with his emotions and mental health.
- The conflict in The Perks of Being a Wallflower is Charlie competing with his thoughts. He struggles throughout the book with depression, loneliness, fitting in and child abuse. Many of the problems he faced resulted from his mind and thoughts. He expresses his thoughts that are eating him alive. He knows they’re eating him alive and he wants them to stop so he says, “And because I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again”(54). Throughout the book he learned to better deal with his thoughts with help from friends. His friends lead him to the light at the end of the tunnel which represents happiness.
- Towards the end of the story Charlie goes through the tunnel in the town. He describes the experience, “Then you’re in the middle of the tunnel, and everything becomes a calm dream. As you see the opening get closer, you just can’t get there fast enough. And finally, just when you think you’ll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you. And the radio comes back even louder than you remember it. And the wind is waiting. And you fly out of the tunnel onto the bridge. And there it is. The city”(108). This portrays how everything gets better as he finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel figuratively and literally. The tunnel represents the struggles he went through, while the city and lights represent the relief of those issues, Just like he never thought he was gonna reach the end of the literal tunnel, he also never thought he was gonna get out of the state of depression, cycling thoughts and issues he had faced. But, he made it.
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