Creative Writing: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The only way to truly do justice to this story is to tell it as Charlie would, so here it goes. Dear friend, or perhaps just readers, I know nothing about you, not you age, race, gender, or favorite color. This however goes both ways, all you really know about me is what you are reading right now. It is important to note at this point in the narrative that much of the impacts the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower had on me are not obvious. Very few of my peers or can tell the immense impact this story had on me. Even fewer can see how I have changed as a result.

Alright, confession time, I am not the most outgoing of people. I would prefer to sit back and watch the world from a safe distance than risk accidently slipping (and probably fall

As I strolled up and down the overcrowded aisles of the store I passed a table, and as history would predict, I bumped a stack of books on the corner knocking one of the carefully perched novels to the ground. As I reached to pick it up I remember thinking, “Man that is a bright green cover!” Yes I know, not the most well based book selection process, but it was all I needed. Feeling an obligatory sympathy towards this book that I had brutally assaulted I read the cover, The Perks of being a Wallflower, flipped it over and read the back. Satisfied with what I saw along with its oddly square shape and the fact that the cover lacked any trace of generic tween novel I took a chance and purchased it and that is where the story stopped until a family trip gave me an excuse to read

The remainder of my vacation was spent carefully calculating when I would be able to dive deeper into his troubled life. It was on the flight home that I had to say goodbye to him for the first time. I would eventually pick the book up on many other occasions feeling a need to be comforted by that fictional boy that had reminded me of one person, myself. Although our struggles were not exactly carbon copies I felt a connection with his character and all those whom told their stories through the pages of this literary masterpiece. The woes of teenage life and the battle to fit in amongst a constantly changing social group is a struggle that I believe everyone has faced at one point in their lives or another. But for the time being it was over and had left me with one simple thought, “What do I do now?” I had certainly been heavily impacted by the text but was left with the nagging feeling as though it was a call to action; a demand for change aimed directly at me. With the next school year quickly approaching and the gut wrenching dread I felt knowing that all of my friends would not be going to my school I knew this was my opportunity to make this