Dear Friend...
I don't really know you and you you don't really know me but I just needed someone to tell him about this really great novel that a good friend friend of mine gave to me a couple of weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago I was going through movies to see what to watch and I decided to give ''The perks of being a wallflower'' a chance. I cried, I laughed, and I was speechless by the end of the movie. I didn't tell anyone about me feelings at the time, but I was in this dark place and this movie gave me this nice feeling that I haven't felt in a while especially when David Bowie's heroes played ad the end of the movie. I've heard that you are a great listener so I decided to tell you all of this. I love music and I love David Bowie so the whole movie was a great experience.
After watching the movie I wanted to read the book so a friend of mine decided to give it to me and she told me that you'll be shocked but I wasn't sure why, what could be different?? And to be honest with the book did shock me, this might be one of the saddest novels I've ever read. The novel is so raw and sad and I felt sorry for the hero, Charlie. I know you might think that I am mad but I hope you understand what I want to say. The book is so well written that I felt Charlie's emotions and confusion throughout the book. What made me love Charlie is that he loves to read like me and he wants to be an author. I want to be a writer one day, may be one day I'll write my first ever novel with my future wife or girl friend or may be I'll be able to work in an online magazine or something.
Now you might ask me, why would I recommend this book to you?? I will assume that you love reading plus the novel has a lot of interesting themes. The novel discussed the meaning of true friendship (the relation between Charlie, Sam and Patrick). I also like that Charlie wasn't your stereotype teenager who hates his parents, on the contrary Charlie loves his mum so much and his whole family and on every occasion he just wants to make them happy. And this might be Charlie's problem that he wants everyone to be happy and this leads to him neglecting himself, it is really sad don't you think?? It made me sad and I think you might be sad as well. So I guess happiness might be the real theme here, how everyone of us sees happiness and how to pursue it.
I don't really want to spoil the story for you but I guess denial might be another theme here. You might love someone but you don't want to admit it, you might have experienced a bad experience when you were young that affected you badly but you just deny the whole thing and forget it. But the thing is such things might lead to a snowball effect that might take it's toll on you and destroy you. Denial isn't a solution, you have to face your problems and conquer them (sorry, I'm being corny here).
Love is also one of the novel's main themes and like what Bill said to Charlie ''We accept the love we think we deserve'' I love this quote and so do my friends and I really hope you like it too, you will understand how strong it is when you read the book. I think the author here doesn't only mean love as in a relationship but he talks about love in general. Family love, friends love, and yes love between two different people. ''We accept the love we think we deserve'' Sometimes you think that you have chosen the right person to love and care about while in reality this person doesn't suit you, and I've been there before but it's something that I'd rather keep to my self.
So I don't really want to bother you more, I know you have things to do so let me wrap this up. The novel is raw, simple and has really great characters who got developed really well to a point that you could relate to them. Charlie's words are simple, his feelings are so mixed up and sometimes you might be disturbed by what he is writing, poor kid. After finishing the novel my feelings were so mixed up and I was feeling really emotional that I decided to tell somebody about them. Was the ending happy or sad?? I think it was an open one, you'll have to draw you own conclusions but I hope Sam, Patrick, Charlie and others are living great lives and are happy. I'm not making any sense now so I should stop writing. Oh, the author has a really great taste in music, I loved his choices of songs in the book.Hope you won't be annoyed by this long letter or mail, okay Now I've to end this, thank you for reading this...
Love always..
- Sam,,,
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