“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” written by Stephen Chbosky is a book taking you through Charlie’s story — a sensitive, empathetic teenager’s life. Through his letters, readers get a look at a real teenager’s ups and downs though school, friendship, trauma and mental health.

This book can make you feel understood and relate to a character. We all as people like to see things we relate to so we don’t feel alone. This book does just that.

The way this book is written is in first person through Charlie, he writes letters to an old friend so we really get his perspective about his life. We get an insight on how exactly Charlie thinks, and as easily as I did, just about anyone that reads this book will fall in love with Charlie’s sweet and soft heart. So much so that each event that happens to him means ten times more to you.

This book means more to me than any other teenage book because it fixates on real teenage emotions, not just what people think teenagers go through but far more than that. It makes you have a totally new perspective on life.

Charlie is a sweet kid who notices life around him. He sees the world through other people’s point of view rather than just his own. Charlie is more of a loner until he meets his friends Sam and Patrick, who really shaped him to come out of his shell more and express himself more.

Charlie always cares for the people around him even when they hurt him or he doesn’t particularly “like” them he still always puts himself last. Charlie went through some intense trauma growing up that extremely messed with his head and the way he thinks. I think this book truly captured grieving trauma and how over the years not really dealing with your trauma can take over your life and make you think or mentally see things deeper than what they are.

I would recommend this book to any emotionally intelligent teenagers or people who deal with real life teen problems or mental health issues. This book will keep you interested and wanting more to feel more out of the book and catch relatable key parts.