Perks Of Being A Wallflower Movie Essay

Introduction

I have read an interesting film review of The Perks of Being A Wallflower (2012) in a local newspaper about three years ago. The review urged me to watch the film because it is a film about youth. I was a nineteen years old young lady who was still in the process of recognizing and developing her identity. Even now I am still on the point of becoming a mature woman. The film was screened at the International Screens and I watched it with my two younger sisters which later I realized was probably a mistake because my youngest sister was only eleven at that time, too young to watch such a depressing film.

The Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC), the largest chain of cinemas in Malaysia, has developed three International Screens located at

The first ‘bildungsroman’ novel is Wilheim Meister’s

Apprenticeship written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe which has four volumes and published in 1795-96. Thus the genre continues to thrive until today with different opinions on grouping them into the genre.

Bildungsroman has been continued to be composed since the eighteenth-century.

Some of the well known English Bildungsroman of the eighteenth-century are Tom Jones

(1749), written by Henry Fielding and Tristram Shandy (1759) by Lawrence Sterne.

During the nineteenth-century the practice of the genre spread far and wide. In addition to

David Copperfield (1850) and Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens in the Great

Britain, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Henry James’s

What Maisie Knew (1897) contributed to the genre in the American literary scene. Some of the major works of ‘bildungsroman’ in the twentieth-century include Sons and Lovers

(1913) by D. H. Lawrence, A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James

Joyce, English Music (1992) by Petes Ackroyd in the United Kingdom. In the United

States, the practice of the genre is dominated by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side

Chapter Three - Malaysia and Its Literature

This chapter will concentrate on the socio-historical context of Malaysia with a particular focus on the position of women in Malaysian culture. In the next part of this chapter, I will trace the earlier practices of ‘bildungsroman’ writing in Malaysian literary history.

Chapter Four - Exploring Lauren as a ‘Bildungsroman’

In this chapter I will analyze my creative project which is a ‘bildungsroman’ novella titled

Lauren. In addition to discussing the process of writing my novella, I will also explore the thematic and structural construction of my work. Finally, I will argue how my novella can be appropriately belong to the ‘bildungsroman’ genre.

Chapter Five - Conclusion

The final chapter will be the concluding chapter of my thesis. I will discuss the implications of exploring the genre ‘bildungsroman’, point out the importance of its literary practice and also offer suggestions for future researches and creative projects in the area of this particular genre and in the field of literary studies in