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The first (and, for almost twenty years, the only) work by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel first published in 1999.The narrator, 16-year-old Charlie, is just starting high school as a freshman, having been held back a couple of years due to past emotional trauma and subsequent hospitalization. The novel primarily concerns Charlie's adventures in the '91-'92 school year, and is written as a collection of letters Charlie is writing to a friend-of-a-friend who he was told would be a good listener.Charlie, who doesn't excel at much except reading, seems to be off to a bad start before two seniors, step-siblings Patrick and Sam, take him under their wing. And so begins Charlie's adventures into school, literature, dating, Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, teen pregnancy, suicide, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.The book was well-received and essentially the literary version of a Killer App for its publisher, the newly-launched MTV Books. It has drawn comparisons to The Catcher in the Rye, primarily for being a no-punches-pulled look at high school and for having a first-person narrator. It also placed 6th on 2008's list of the most frequently banned books, for similar reasons.The Film of the Book was released in September 2012, written and directed by Chbosky himself. Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller play Charlie, Sam, and Patrick respectively. |
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Faux Yay: Patrick frequently engages in a sexuality-switched one, where instead of straight people jokingly doing "gay" things, he's a gay character who constantly shows unserious flashes of faux-attraction to the opposite sex. He even makes out with Alice at one point, but not before referring to himself as gay explicitly (through a slur, but it still applies). |
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Stealth Pun |
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Stealth Pun: The movie's chosen Tunnel Song is David Bowie's "'Heroes'," a song covered by—wait for it—The Wallflowers. |
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Brutal Honesty |
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Brutal Honesty: Charlie picks the worst possible time to invoke this when asked in a Truth or Dare game to "kiss the prettiest girl." He kisses Sam. |
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Anachronism Stew |
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Anachronism Stew: Folks who actually did their senior year of high school from 1991-92 immediately notice Cracker's "Low" was released two years later, and a sign on the Fort Pitt Bridge (coming out of the tunnel) for Pittsburgh's Consol Center, which was built in 2008. |
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Funny Background Event |
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Funny Background Event: After Shop class on the first day, when Charlie's on his way out, you can see Patrick in the guidance counsellor's office, presumably because of his actions in said Shop class. |
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Alphabetical Theme Naming |
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Alphabetical Theme Naming: In the book, Charlie's sister and brother have No Name Given, with Charlie itself implied to be an alias. In the film, their names are Candace and Chris. |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: While Emma Watson is convincing as the American Sam for the most part, occasionally her natural British accent comes through. |
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Freshman Fears |
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Freshman Fears: Charlie is a high school freshman who is shy and withdrawn at first, but comes out of his shell after being taken under the wing of a group of seniors. |
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Gay Cruising |
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Gay Cruising: After Patrick and Brad break up, Patrick begins frequenting the park at night, where he has sex with much older men, which causes his friends some concern. |
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Curb-Stomp Battle |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Three of the football team members are viciously beating up Patrick in the cafeteria. Then Charlie steps in. The screen goes black for a second, then cuts to all of the football players on the ground, wincing in pain. Charlie's only injury is some bruised knuckles. |
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Epistolary Novel |
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Epistolary Novel: Charlie is writing these letters to someone. Evidently he just started sending them without any prior correspondence. |
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Bittersweet Ending |
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Bittersweet Ending: Charlie awakens repressed memories of his aunt molesting him, destroying his image of her forever. But his parents finally know about it, he's getting counselling to deal with it and has strong support from Patrick and Sam. |
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Gayngst |
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Gayngst: It's seemingly subverted for most of the story, with Patrick being portrayed most light-heartedly of all the characters. However, it strays into this area by the end of his subplot with Brad. |
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Bait the Dog |
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Bait the Dog: Charlie's aunt Helen is initially presented as a troubled but loving character. It's then revealed that she sexually abused him for years. |
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Most Writers Are Writers |
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Most Writers Are Writers: Charlie wants to be one, and the book (and the narration of the movie) is made up of his letters to an undefined person who apparently is a good person to talk to. |
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Friendless Background |
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Friendless Background: Charlie. |
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Their First Time |
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Their First Time: Both versions are played straight: an unanticipated tryst is interrupted by something. |
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Wham Line |
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Wham Line: For Candace when Charlie asks her "I killed Aunt Helen, didn't I?" |
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Flames of Love |
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Flames of Love: Charlie and Mary get close in front of a fireplace. But then the parents interrupt their date. |
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Rape as Backstory |
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Rape as Backstory: Sam was molested as a young girl by a friend of her father. Also, Charlie's aunt was molested as a young girl, which led to her having serious psychological issues, which is why she herself molested Charlie. |
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Granola Girl |
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Granola Girl: Mary Elizabeth is a classic example, being a punk artist vegan activist Buddhist. One might argue that Sam has these tendencies as well. Bill's girlfriend is this as well. |
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Abortion Fallout Drama |
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Abortion Fallout Drama: Charlie's older sister gets pregnant as a teen, and has to hide this from her parents and sneaks around to get an abortion. She relies on her friends and brother to help her get the procedure, but this is a source of strength for their relationship rather than conflict. This subplot was excised from the movie. |
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Adaptation Distillation |
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Adaptation Distillation: The movie keeps the most important moments from the book but cuts or skims over events and scenes to keep it shorter like Charlie's smoking, his relationship with Mr. Anderson and cuts out the pregnancy and abortion subplot with his sister. (However, this plotline was later released as a deleted scene on the DVD/BluRay release). |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Charlie wishes for everyone around him to be happy, but as a result disregards his own happiness. Sam calls him out on this before she leaves for college, telling him he can't make everyone around him happy and he must care for himself too. |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Patrick's report card actually says "Patrick Nothing". Also if you look at Charlie's birthday cake, there are sixteen candles on it—which indicates that he's sixteen years old. And you can read the name "Samantha Dutton" on Sam's SAT results, telling us what her full name is. |
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Pretty Boy |
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Pretty Boy: Patrick in the movie, as played by the very pretty Ezra Miller. |
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Starts with a Suicide |
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Starts with a Suicide: One of the first things we learn is that Charlie's best friend shot himself the summer between middle and high school. |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet: Patrick is pretty openly gay, but his boyfriend Brad, a star football player with a violently homophobic father, is hesitant to be out or reveal their relationship to all but a few friends, which is a major source of tension in their relationship. In the movie, this comes to a head when Brad, still keeping the relationship and his sexuality a secret, calls Patrick a faggot in front of everyone, triggering a huge fight. |
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Named by the Adaptation |
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Named by the Adaptation: It's made clear in the movie that Charlie is the main character's given name, and he gains the surname Kelmeckis. The sister is named Candace and the brother Chris for the film too. |
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Bungled Suicide |
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Bungled Suicide: |
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Arc Words |
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Arc Words: "I felt infinite" and variations thereof. |
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N-Word Privileges |
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N-Word Privileges: During the game of Truth or Dare, Patrick jokingly calls himself a "fag", but when Brad calls Patrick a faggot in the cafeteria he starts a huge fight. |
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Celebrity Paradox |
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Celebrity Paradox: Alice's favorite film is Night of the Living Dead (1968). Tom Savini, who plays the shop teacher, directed the 1990 remake. |
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Expository Hairstyle Change |
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Expository Hairstyle Change: Charlie begins the movie with his hair flat. As the movie goes on, he wears it pushed back to reflect his character growth. |
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Dysfunction Junction |
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Dysfunction Junction: Almost every character has been through some sort of trauma; in particular, most of the female cast are survivors of some sort of abuse by a man. |
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Relative Error |
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Relative Error: When Charlie first meets Patrick and Sam, he mistakenly thinks they're dating. |
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Adaptational Nice Guy |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Charlie's brother. In the book, he is an all-too-common type of young white male (particularly in '90s USA) who casually uses misogynistic and homophobic language. In the movie, he is nothing but super nice, and even gets a lovely scene with his little brother. |
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Stepford Smiler |
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Stepford Smiler: Patrick's extremely cheery and fun personality hides some pretty deep emotional scars. |
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Straight Gay |
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Straight Gay: Brad, or perhaps bi. |
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Jerk Jock |
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Jerk Jock: Brad has shades of this, and evolves into a full-fledged one when his dad catches him and Patrick and beats the crap out of him. |
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type |
Broken Pedestal |
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comment |
Broken Pedestal: Aunt Helen becomes this to Charlie when he remembers her molestation of him. |
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type |
Villainy-Free Villain |
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comment |
Villainy-Free Villain: The Shop teacher, initially. He only appears twice, and his first appearance is to sit at the receiving end of Patrick's mischief. In his second appearance, he acts like more of a Jerkass towards his students and their work. |
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type |
Posthumous Character |
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comment |
Posthumous Character: Charlie's best friend and favorite aunt. |
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The Movie Buff |
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comment |
The Movie Buff: Alice, Sam and Patrick's other friend who Charlie never really talked to (which meant he never knew this about her until he found out she was going to study film in her university). Her favourite film happens to be Night of the Living Dead (1968) and she calls movies "films". As George A. Romero was a Pittsburgh native and the story is set there, her appreciation of it makes sense. |
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type |
Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock |
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comment |
Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock: Patrick falls in love with Brad, the star athlete. |
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Riddle for the Ages |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_96a33f11 |
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Riddle for the Ages: Just who is Charlie writing to, anyway? Or is he indeed writing to any one person? |
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The Needs of the Many |
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The Needs of the Many: Charlie always puts others before himself. This earns him a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Sam toward the end. |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_9a3b7208 |
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type |
Foreshadowing |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_9d12bbc1 |
comment |
Foreshadowing: Around the time Sam reveals she'd been sexually assaulted by her Dad's boss, Charlie tells her he thinks they share a lot in common. Turns out Charlie was also sexually abused by an adult, his Aunt Helen. |
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First Kiss |
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comment |
First Kiss: Sam to Charlie. She specifies that even though she has a boyfriend and sees Charlie strictly as a friend, she want his first kiss to be with someone who loves and cares about him. (see Rape As Back Story). |
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type |
Mood Whiplash |
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comment |
Mood Whiplash: All over the place. A comedy scene of Truth or Dare turns sour when Charlie is asked to kiss "the most beautiful girl in the room", he kisses Sam rather than his girlfriend Mary Elizabeth. This temporarily alienates him from everyone. Later towards the end what looks like a tender love scene between Sam and Charlie is interrupted by his memories of Aunt Helen sexually abusing him. |
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Christianity Is Catholic |
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Christianity is Catholic: Charlie's family is. Charlie comes to school with a cross of ashes on Ash Wednesday, and mention is made of Easter Mass. |
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Abusive Parents |
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comment |
Abusive Parents: Brad's father is violently homophobic. |
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type |
Hide Your Lesbians |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_b506c9ff |
comment |
Hide Your Lesbians: Alice is implied to be a lesbian in the book, but her sexuality isn't mentioned in the film. |
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Maybe Ever After |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_b97c2cfb |
comment |
Maybe Ever After: Sam and Charlie in the book. The movie, directed and written by Chbosky, has them hook up. |
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First Girl Wins |
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comment |
First Girl Wins: Sam is the first girl Charlie ever falls in love with. Although it's left realistically ambiguous whether or not their Maybe Ever After will ever lead to a more mature, lasting relationship, the readers get to see him be solely in love with her as far as the novel spans. |
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Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality |
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comment |
Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: Invoked. Armored Closet Gay jock Brad keeps getting shitfaced as a cover for his relationship with Camp Gay Patrick, so that if he gets caught by one of his homophobic teammates, he can claim that Patrick took advantage of him. Eventually, Patrick gets tired of this and forces Brad to get sober, which puts a strain on their relationship. |
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CoolAunt |
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Cool Aunt: Aunt Helen, according to Charlie. Subverted once the truth about her is uncovered. |
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Precision F-Strike |
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comment |
Precision F-Strike: There's one from Patrick after Charlie kisses Sam during the truth or dare game. |
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Berserk Button |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_bc74ef27 |
comment |
Berserk Button: For Charlie, it's when someone he cares about is physically harmed. |
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No Social Skills |
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comment |
No Social Skills: Charlie, although this is justified. |
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type |
Did They or Didn't They? |
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comment |
Did They or Didn't They?: The movie does this with Sam and Charlie near the end. However, those familiar with the book know the answer: they don't. Followed by a Maybe Ever After. |
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type |
Perky Goth |
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comment |
Perky Goth: Alice counts as such with her clothes and liking for zombies. |
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type |
Five-Finger Discount |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_bf2a09c1 |
comment |
Five-Finger Discount: Alice is well known for stealing jeans from the shops repeatedly. The jeans she gave to Mary Elizabeth for Secret Santa were actually paid for, a fact that all her friends celebrate. |
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type |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_c289826f |
comment |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted by the PTSD Charlie suffers after being sexually abused. |
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type |
20 Minutes into the Past |
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comment |
20 Minutes into the Past: Published in 1999, takes place over the '91-92 school year. |
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Shout-Out |
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comment |
Shout-Out: Besides the lists of books Mr. Anderson gives Charlie to read, there are also several literature/film references scattered throughout the book. Not to mention all of the songs discussed. The film keeps the majority of these references. |
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type |
Troubled Abuser |
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Troubled Abuser: Aunt Helen was molested as a young girl, which is why she herself molested Charlie. |
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No Name Given |
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comment |
No Name Given: Charlie's sister never has a name mentioned out loud, nor do his parents or brother. And for that matter, there's hints that "Charlie" is a pen name adopted for reasons of anonymity. In his first letter Charlie states that he will be using false names for everyone to keep himself from being identified, so it's likely that none of the characters' real names are given. |
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type |
Cloudcuckoolander |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_caa28b82 |
comment |
Cloudcuckoolander: Bob. It's strongly implied drugs are, if not the reason, a huge factor in his weirdness. But remember, he's just sensitive. |
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Cool Teacher |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_cf231d54 |
comment |
Cool Teacher: Charlie's English teacher Bill. |
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type |
Family Theme Naming |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_e502e268 |
comment |
Family Theme Naming: The Kelmeckis siblings names all start with the letter 'c'. |
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type |
Keet |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_e54482ee |
comment |
Keet: Patrick. Ezra Miller especially has fun with this during a few scenes in the film. |
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type |
Stopped Dead in Their Tracks |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_e5a11ab1 |
comment |
Stopped Dead in Their Tracks: Candace does this when Charlie delivers the above-mentioned Wham Line. Bonus points since she is seen from behind with her face out of view, and the reaction is portrayed entirely through body language, until she turns around to immediately signal her friend and tell her, "Call the police and send them to my house." |
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type |
Shrinking Violet |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_eb002293 |
comment |
Shrinking Violet: Charlie, although he's also genuinely mentally ill and traumatized rather than simply shy. |
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One-Steve Limit |
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comment |
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Charlie's English teacher, Bill, shares a name with the limo driver for prom (Billy). There's also a Bob and Sam's first kiss was with someone named Robert. |
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type |
High-School Dance |
| | The Perks of Being a Wallflower / int_f0fc8518 |
comment |
High-School Dance: We're treated to scenes of the significant characters attending a few. Patrick and Sam perform their memorable "living room routine" dance number in the first. |
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type |
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma |
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comment |
Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: When learning how to punctuate, Charlie scatters punctuation all over that day's letter. The next day he apologizes. (...It was funny at the time.) Possibly a Shout-Out to a similar chapter in another Epistolary Novel narrated by someone named Charlie. |
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Would Hit a Girl |
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Would Hit a Girl: During Patrick and Brad's fistfight, his jock friends who swoop in to help the losing Brad beat up Patrick respond to Sam's attempt to stop them by shoving her to the ground. |
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Higher Understanding Through Drugs |
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Higher Understanding Through Drugs: Charlie goes to a house party, and eats a cannabis brownie without knowing what's in it. Soon after, the otherwise quiet and reserved character is sitting in a lotus position babbling all sorts of stuff, some of it silly, some of it quite insightful. As a result of this, he gains a bunch of new friends. |
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Romantic False Lead |
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Romantic False Lead: Mary Elizabeth is this for Charlie, though she has a bigger role in the story and is more sympathetic than Romantic False Leads tend to be. Craig, however, is a typical example of the trope, as the character is used purely as a plot device. |
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