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| | Amazon.com: The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Books: Stephen Chbosky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. |
 | | Charlie is always completely honest, whether he is describing his first "beer" party where he witnessed a girl being raped by her boyfriend, or explaining masturbation and his excitement for this newfound "activity." Charlie is a wallflower who observes people and feels very deeply for the experiences occuring around him. |
 | | Charlie, at one point in the story, describes how it feels when, one day, you realize that millions of others have read your favorite books and listened to our favorite songs, and suddenly, they are no longer the perfect, lovely, infinite thing to you. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671027344?v=glance (3003 words) |
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