Summary and Conflicts

Let's start off with some of the main problems, well more problem rather than problems. Never mind that. Main problem? One word, highschool. Although this problem may be self explanatory to some, for the others that find that little hard to understand. Charlie is like any average student, which means hes gotta worry about things in highschool, relations whether it be friends or more than friends*nudge nudge*....never mind. As I was saying drugs, sex, alcohol and worst of all, grades. So that being said he has come to terms with the fact that it will definitely become very difficult to juggle not only the stress of all those topics as well as grades, he knows there is no real way to keep sanity.(Which he doesn't have very much of to being with)......Now, to the actual story. As the year starts to wind down for all three of the friends Charlie, Patrick, and Sam, Sam tells Charlie that she is going away to college, also telling her other friends as well as Charlie or at least the ones that she knows. Okay now skip ahead a bit of to the last night Sam will be there till she has break, they are all really just sitting in a room and just looking back at all the fun/stupidly fun times they've had as friends. Eventually friends leave and Patrick goes up to bed. Sam nicely asks if Charlie can help her finish packing, he says yes, but that just leads to her having a serious discussion with him. Basically just talking about, tearing up while doing this, she tells him that he needs to start thinking about himself for once, he has his own wants and needs so he should stop every so often and worry about himself and not trying to fulfill other peoples needs and wants for once. Now this completely obviously leads her fulfilling his "wants" if you know what I mean...you do, but uhhhhhhh "*kissy kissy* *touchy touchy*" He then decides he isn't ready for that, she respects that. He later just passes out on her couch. Well that's actually pretty much the whole book right there. Final part at least.  

POV and Summary

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower", is a first person book as it often says "I" and "My", things that indicate that it is a first person point of view. Other than that I don't really know how to describe how it's a first person point of view. Those are the only real reasons, but nonetheless as far as the book goes drugs are introduced to Charlie, specifically LSD, he does not do to well with it and has a "bad trip". After waking up in the middle of someones yard and puking a bit he realizes he's starting to see things move around him. Not just things meant to move though. He is a little intimidated and scared by this, but Sam eventually clears it up and says hes had a "bad trip"and that it just takes time and it'll all go away. Oh, and almost forgot to mention that when Charlie gets back home everybody is quiet and seeming like Charlie is crazy and his sister out of no where starts fixing his hair and he's confused and wonders "Why? Whats wrong with my hair." just after that he looks in the mirror he is pained to find that several parts of his hair have been choppily cut off....so yeah that happened. In other words he has declared he's never EVER doing LSD again. Sooo.....don't do drugs I guess?

2nd Artice blog

The article I chose to read and write about was named, "Is it time for cursive to die?". The author made some great points some for cursive to stay, but the majority went to the funeral of cursive, strengthening my opinion to get rid of cursive. Probably my favorite reason that it is not only on a lower list of priorities, "Algebra? Vital. Reading non-fiction? Vital. Writing cursive? Eh--maybe not." As well as saying that cursive may(hopefully) be like playing an instrument, an art and skill, but not mandatory or frankly even useful. Especially with the amount of tech this day and age has, sending a postcard, writing a letter, all things f the past really. The convenience of having the ability to text, call, tweet, Facebook, instagraming....all giving way to a simpler living.

Summary of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and CA so far

The book is basically about a teenager, who prefers to be anonymous and calls himself Charlie, who is going into high school and is telling his stories to who is known as "Dear friend". He tells of his and the experiences of high school but mainly focuses on him. Covering things from awkward dates, family drama, sex/drugs, and really anything in between that you'd expect from a four year trip of dread and some happy moments. Really just about growing up.
       As far as "Charlie" as a character, he is more of an awkward and odd/confused boy. He's more of a person to keep to themselves and try and fly under the radar, with his brother as a college football star and his sister, well they don't really say much so far, but none the less he has a lot to work up to and he's really just an average kid getting a taste of life. Little off the subject but in order to really know him you have to know what hes up against. Academically, he isn't the best at math but, when it comes to reading he is a little bit of an expert as he is in an advanced class. He loves reading is all that needs to be said. Other than all that so far he isn't described very much, maybe further on he'll get more of a personality as a character.