The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Literary Fiction (I forgot to say before)
pg. 76-137

This part of the book starts off with Charlie sitting in his dad's old bedroom while at his grandparent's house on Christmas. He recalls the past few days which includes his 16th birthday. Although most kids enjoy their birthdays, especially their 16th, Charlie is actually quite sad. His birthday reminds him of all the sad things in life such as losing his close friend Michael and his favorite aunt Helen. Charlie goes on to explain that his aunt Helen would get him a birthday and Christmas present, even though they were one day after each other, and his aunt Helen had gone out to buy his birthday present when she was in a car accident and died. Charlie blamed himself for her death. But anyways, Charlie gets his license soon after Christmas and drove for the first time on New Years Eve to the Big Boy and then to a party. At the party, Charlie ends up getting messed up on LSD. He proceeds to write one of his letters to us at 4 o'clock in the morning, but then writes again a few days later explaining everything. He ended up laying in the snow somewhere in the morning, landing himself in the hospital. After his drug experience, Charlie then falls into the habit of smoking cigarettes. On another note though, Charlie does end up seeing his psychiatrist again. While there, he realizes that he will always have another terrible week ahead so he should remember as many details as he can when he's having a great day so that he can recall those when it's not such a great day anymore. Time passes though and it's now February. Charlie's school is having a Sadie Hawkins dance and he gets asked by Mary Elizabeth. Eventually the dance comes around and they all go and have fun. But Mary Elizabeth gets sort of clingy afterwords. They start going out a lot and she would call him everyday right when she got home from school. She would do all the talking and he would barely get to say anything, he would just ask her questions and let it go from there. Eventually at a party, Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room, and while most people would have expected his to kiss Mary because they're dating, he kissed his close friend Sam instead because he honestly thought she was the prettiest.  That ended that relationship. However, throughout this time, Charlie's sister ended up telling him that she was pregnant and was getting an abortion and needed him to take her. He did so, being there for his sister, being the only one who even knew about her pregnancy.

So throughout this part of the book, it still gives you a really unique insight on the life of a teenager. It deals with sex, drugs, alcohol, death, and all of the consequences. It really is comparable to your own life. The Sadie Hawkins dance is exactly like our Morp and everything. All the drugs he experiences and witnesses is very comparable to today. Although some times have changed, like instead of calling right after school, a clingy girlfriend of boyfriend would just continuously text one another. However, he sort of captured the main essence of a high school relationship.