Perks of being a Wallflower - Review

The novel „The Perks of being a Wallflower“ by Stephen Chbosky is about the 15 year-old Charlie, who describes in a series of letters to an unknown person his problems of being a teenager. He deals with the topics friendship, growing up, love, drugs, the role of an outsider, sexuality and a lot of more. Big roles in his life are his friends, he would do anything for them and everyone can lean on him. But in the end of the book his foretime prevails over him. He was abused by his favourite aunt and that’s the reason why he’s so emotional, shy and secretive.

I really liked the novel because Charlie is always completely honest, sometimes on a naive way, with everything he writes, for example when he explains how to masturbate or when he saw a girl being raped by a popular football player. The fact that “The Perks of being a Wallflower” contains all the problems a normal teenager has, makes this book so interesting. Everyone knows the feeling of frustrations, mourning, first experiences, happiness,… but nevertheless this novel really touches your heart and you know that you’re not the only one with such problems.
I can only advise everyone to read this novel who likes books where someone notices every one in his environment and then writes it down. Even though the end is a little bit too exaggerated when we find out that he was abused by his aunt.