The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
pg. 40-75

So during this part, Charlie continues to tell about his life. He still writes letters to the reader, leaving out some details in order to remain anonymous. In the first part, he talks about his friend Patrick who happens to be gay and his first experience with his "boyfriend" Brad. He talks about all the troubles they were put up against. He continues on to talk about The Rocky Horror Picture Show. There most of his group of friends are the characters in the show where they act it out every Friday night. Charlie also talks about how he loves Sam, who is Patrick's sister and one of his other close friends. However, Sam is way too old for Charlie, but still he thinks of her as the prettiest girl ever and is secretly in love with her. At this point in the book, it is right around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Charlie talks about spending the holidays with his family. He spent Thanksgiving with his mom's family and Christmas with his dad's. He makes a statement that both sides of his family are the same, just different names. He thinks that there is always someone who could be similar to someone else on the other side of his family.

I'm still really enjoying this book. It gives you another look on another kid's high school experience. He talks about drugs, sex, family, and friends. He covers it all. It really gives you a new perspective on some things. When he compared his mom's family to his dad's family, it made me do the same thing in my head. I started to think of who was alike on each side of my family. It made perfect sense. There's always the loud one of both sides of your family, and then the lazy one, or the one who cooks. There's one in every family.