The Perks of Being a Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky
參賽者： 鄭〇儀
名次：第三名
書名：The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower describes the life of senior student. It is about what Charlie, the main character, has encountered; who he has befriended and how he felt and transferred upon being along with a group of unique friends.
Generally speaking, it should be a book that people who have passed the time of being senior high students will resonate and shout, “Yeah! These were what I did when I was young.” When I read this book, I’m already a college student. I have to be honest that the situations happening in the book probably seldom appear in the lives of the students in Taiwan, no matter in senior high or college. There are issues of friendship, love and family in the story. These are what all human are tangled with in our lives. However, a majority of students in Taiwan may have already missed the very time to experience the craziness and wildness which the characters were having in their senior high. Students in Taiwan put all their efforts in studying, striving for something called “future”; however, while we are keeping our paces to the upcoming future, we have already neglect the moment we are standing on; what we want is a great leap, a leap which may lead us to the top. We bump, we jump; exhaustedly, we fall and try again and again. Repetitively, we never have the chance to enjoy what we are standing on and what surround us. Compare to those who can renovate how the characters feel, Taiwanese readers may can only admire and pity for what they hope to experience at least once.
The characters in the story experience the sweet and sorrow complicated relationship between lovers, bearing the struggling and painfulness of seeing their lovers dating with others, enjoying the relationship and then breaking their hearts in tears. They dance with music, enjoying parties, driving cars, celebrating festivals with friends together. These are so-called normal things and experiences in some of the western society; however, students in Taiwan seem all become the wallflower like Charlie, observing what are happening around them. When I read the story, I have the same feeling as Charlie, as if I am a wallflower like him.
Charlie, who suffered from a kind of depression and oppression because of his aunt and his good friend who committed suicide, was feared of school. He observed people, hoping to join them but wanting to escape from people at the same time. Then he encountered a group of friends, each of them had their own styles and acted as their own ways. Charlie was shy and even invisible to others, he performed well in academic area but he had no friends before he met Patrick and Sam. I somehow observe people as Charlie did and sinking into our own thoughts. Not knowing how to join others, we escape but hope there will be someone grapping us in. We stand at the edge of the circle which most people are in. We are sensitive and caring. I am really glad when Charlie met Patrick and Sam, who led him to the road of being infinitive. They cared about him, leading him, sharing and laughing with Charlie. They filled out the blank in his empty heart. They needed not to be like everyone else; they had their lives in their ways. And, they teach him something: they can be hero in their own world. They could still be at the edge of the circle, but there are a group of people standing with him, hand in hand. And I feel the infinity as I let them lead me into their world. And back to the reality, I am finding my ways to be a hero in my life.
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