The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a novel written by Steven Chbosky. The novel was very influenced by J.D. Sallingers novel The Catcher In The Rye. The novel is written through a series of letters written by a boy named Charlie to an anonymous recipient. Through these letters Charlie expresses the difficulties that come with being a teenager. Charlie is a shy character who is somewhat an outcast. Charlie had just lost his best and only friend to suicide. With the help of two other characters named Sam and Patrick Charlie learns how to come out of his shell. Sam and Patrick introduce Charlie to a whole other world. Throughout the letters we learn that Charlie is a changed person who now has gone on a date, goes out to parties, and experiments with drugs. One of the big questions that I had when reading this novel was whether or not Sam and Patrick had actually helped Charlie. Although they taught him what it was like to gain friends and attend high school parties but they also introduced him to many harmful drugs. In the novel Charlie was even hospitalized for almost overdosing on LSD. I would absolutely reccomend this novel to all readers but especially to adolescents. This novel is a great example of what all teenagers are kind of going through right now. We are all questioning who we are and what kind of person we want to be in life and the novel greatly portrays how this character struggles to answer these questions.