Stephen Chbosky "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
For the first time in Russian - Stephen Chbosky's amazing bestseller, a touching coming-of-age novel.
Charlie starts high school. Fearing what awaits him there after a recent nervous breakdown, he begins to write letters to someone he has never seen in his life, but who he is sure will understand him well. Charlie doesn't like going to dances because he usually likes songs that you can't dance to. Every new book he reads on the advice of Bill, a literature teacher, immediately becomes Charlie’s favorite: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “ Peter Pan", "The Great Gatsby", "The Catcher in the Rye", "On the Road", "Naked Lunch"... Bill advises Charlie to “be a filter, not a sponge,” and he honestly tries. Charlie also tries not to remember tightly forgotten childhood traumas and sort out his feelings for high school student Sam, the sister of his friend Patrick, nicknamed No... (c) Summary of the book
The events in the book develop from August 25, 1991 to June 22, 1992. Epilogue - August 23, 1992
The book touches on themes of violence, teenage sex and relationships, adolescence, drugs and suicide, focusing on the dilemma of passivity and passion.
The main character is Charlie, a shy and emotional teenager. After the death of two people close to him, Aunt Helen and his best friend Michael, he is in a depressed state. One day, entering the classroom, Charlie overhears her classmates talking about a guy who knows how to listen and understand. Moreover, he did not sleep with one of them at the party, although he had such an opportunity. Having found out the address of this guy, Charlie began to write letters to him, expressing his experiences and thoughts, without indicating his address, and changed the names to others and similar ones.
Charlie talks about the strange suicide of his best friend Michael, a new friend in the person of his English teacher, his sister and her boyfriend, and his family. Later, Charlie talks about Patrick taking labor classes with him. Everyone called Patrick “No way.”
Some time later, Charlie meets Sam at a school football game; he later finds out that she is Patrick's half-sister. Charlie tells Sam how he feels, but Sam has a boyfriend, Craig, and advises her to forget about her. Then Patrick tells Charlie about the relationships between guys and girls. Patrick and Sam introduce Charlie to Bob and the whole party. Charlie tries drugs against his will.
The life of the main character changes greatly after these acquaintances. Charlie has his first sexual experience with Mary Elizabeth, but unfortunately he cannot forget Sam. Patrick reveals that he is gay and he is dating Brad. Their relationship later ends because Brad's father caught them together.
One day, Brad's friends trip Patrick, and he falls in front of the entire dining room. A fight ensues, which Charlie witnesses. He passed out, and when he came to his senses, he saw that he had saved Patrick. Charlie and Sam and Patrick's friendship is renewed. Sam and Patrick finish school and leave to study in another city. On the last evening, Sam and Charlie kiss, thereby confessing their feelings to each other. Against the backdrop of worries about the departure of his friends, Charlie again remembers Aunt Helen and blames himself for her death. Charlie's psyche cannot stand it, and the young man has a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Charlie agrees to sessions with a psychologist and remembers more and more about his childhood.
At the end of the book, the three main characters pass under that same tunnel, which has become for them a part of themselves and a part of eternity.
SUPER BOOK!!!
I re-read it 7 times if not more! They say that it changes the way the reader thinks. Is it true!
I RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE! (+ there is a movie for the book)
And in the film there are Emma Watson and Logan Lerman (well, you know what I mean)
The events in the film take place from August 25, 1991 to June 22, 1992. Epilogue - August 23, 1992.
The main character is Charlie, an introverted teenager. After the death of two people close to him, Aunt Helen and his best friend Michael, he is in a depressed state. One day, entering the classroom, Charlie overhears her classmates talking about a guy who knows how to listen and understand. Plus, he didn't sleep with any of them at the party, even though he had the opportunity. Having found out the address of this guy, Charlie began to write letters to him, expressing his experiences and thoughts, without indicating his address, and changed the names to others and similar ones.
Charlie talks about the strange suicide of his best friend Michael, a new friend in the person of his English teacher, his sister and her boyfriend, and his family. Later, Charlie talks about Patrick taking labor classes with him. Everyone called Patrick “No way.”
Some time later, Charlie meets Sam at a school football game; he later finds out that she is Patrick's half-sister. Charlie tells Sam how he feels, but Sam has a boyfriend, Craig, and advises her to forget about her. Then Patrick tells Charlie about the relationships between guys and girls. Patrick and Sam introduce Charlie to Bob and the whole party. Charlie tries drugs against his will.
The life of the main character changes a lot after these acquaintances: he finally made new friends and is no longer alone. It turned out that Patrick is gay and is dating the school sports star, Brad. Charlie has his first sexual experience with a party girl named Mary Elizabeth, but unfortunately he can't get over Sam. One day he kisses her in front of the whole company, everyone sides with Mary Elizabeth, condemns Charlie and stops communicating with him.
Patrick's relationship with Brad ends because the boyfriend's father caught them together. After this, Brad's friends trip Patrick, and he falls in front of the entire dining room. A fight ensues, which Charlie witnesses. He passed out, and when he came to his senses, he found out that he got into a fight and saved Patrick. Charlie's friendship with Sam and Patrick's company is renewed.
Sam and Patrick finish school and leave to study in another city. On the last evening, Sam and Charlie kiss, thereby confessing their feelings to each other. Against the backdrop of worries about the departure of his friends, Charlie again remembers Aunt Helen and blames himself for her death. Charlie's psyche cannot stand it, and the young man has a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Charlie agrees to sessions with a psychologist and remembers more and more about his childhood. Conversations with the doctor help Charlie understand that all these years he subconsciously blamed himself for the death of his beloved Aunt Helen, and therefore he had mental breakdowns.
At the end of the film, Charlie, Sam and Patrick pass under that very tunnel, which has become for them a part of themselves and a part of eternity.
Year of book publication: 1999
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a book that has gained immense popularity among teenagers in the United States. How it spread from hand to hand due to the fact that it was withdrawn from the library collections of schools and city libraries. The reason for this was the mention of sex and drugs in the novel. Despite this at the moment“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” book has been published in more than 30 languages, and its total circulation has exceeded 2 million copies. At the same time, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is so popular to read that filmmakers paid attention to the book. And in 2012, according to the script of Stephen Chbosky himself, the book was filmed under the same name.
The plot of the book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in brief
The novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is based on letters from the main character, Charlie, to an unknown recipient. In them, he describes the events that happened to him over the course of one year: his first love, new friends and first sexual experiences. At the same time, he deliberately changes the names of his friends and does not indicate addresses.
It all started with meeting Patrick and Sam. They were half brother and sister. Patrick attends labor classes with Charlie, and he met Sam on the football field. He really liked the girl, and he confesses his feelings to her. But Sam advises him to forget about her. After all, she has a boyfriend, Craig. Meanwhile, Patrick introduces Charlie to his company. Here he tries drugs against his own will and also has his first sexual experience. At the same time, Sam still remains in his heart.
Meanwhile, he finds out that Patrick is gay. He is friends with Bob and Bob's parents are not happy about this connection. Especially when Bob's father catches them together. After this, they are forced to separate, and Bob's friends start a fight with Patrick. Seeing this main character Stephen Chbosky's book The Perks of Being a Wallflower switches off and saves Patrick. But after graduating from school, the brother and sister leave for another city. As a final farewell, you can read in Chbosky's book The Perks of Being a Wallflower how Sam kisses Charlie in recognition of their feelings. But the departure of his friends became a terrible trauma for the main character. Against this background, Charlie has a nervous breakdown, which he has to be treated in a mental hospital.
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” book on the Top books website
In our ratings, Chbosky’s novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” has been represented in fairly high positions for several seasons now. At the same time, the interest in reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is quite stable and allows us to talk about the readers’ interest in the book not being occasional. Thanks to this, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky can be represented in our site’s ratings for more than one season.
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Did you know that
- The film is based on the novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (1999). The author of the novel also acted as screenwriter and director of the film.
- In an interview, Emma Watson said that she agreed to star in this film because director Stephen Chbosky told her that it would not only be one of the main roles in her life, but in addition, she would spend the summer of her life and also meet some of her best friends. Watson also said that this statement turned out to be true.
- Steve Chbosky decided Emma Watson would be perfect for his film after seeing her performance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), in the scene where Ron breaks her heart and Harry comforts her.
- Emma Watson admitted that she refuses to watch her kiss scene and The Ricky Horror Picture Show.
- Ezra Miller auditioned via Skype. Moreover, he was so charismatic that within five hours of the audition he was given the role.
- In the book, Patrick and Mary were smokers, and Charlie himself smoked for some time. This was removed from the film in order to achieve a PG-13 rating.
- Although the film doesn't pay much attention to this, Charlie is not that different in age from Sam and Patrick, which may be the reason why they get along so well. This is only mentioned in the book, but Charlie stayed a second year due to emotional problems, so they must only be one year older than him.
- The novel takes place in 1991-1992. The film does not specify a specific year, but it can be noted that not a single character uses cell phones or the Internet.
- During filming, a scene was also filmed in which Charlie's sister Candace tells him that she is pregnant, after which he takes her to an abortion, which she then has. However, this scene did not make it into the final cut to avoid an adult rating.
- In the film's DVD and Blu-ray commentary track, director Stephen Chbosky mentions that " Society of the Dead The Poets (1989) and The Breakfast Club (1985) are two of his favorite films that greatly influenced him growing up.
- During filming, Ezra Miller was 17 years old, about the same age as his character. Logal Lerman was 18 years old, almost two years older than his character. Emma Watson turned 21 during filming, so she was significantly older than her character, as well as the eldest of the trio.
- Emma Watson's first major role since Harry Potter.
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"The perks of Being a Wallflower"(English) The Perks of Being a Wallflower ) is an American film, an adaptation of the epistolary novel of the same name by Stephen Chbosky, who acted as the director of the film. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012. Premiere in Russia - September 20. The film received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Film and was in the top ten best films of the Year according to the US National Board of Film Critics.
Plot
The events in the film take place from August 25, 1991 to June 22, 1992. Epilogue - August 23, 1992.
The main character is Charlie, an introverted teenager. After the death of two people close to him, Aunt Helen and his best friend Michael, he is in a depressed state. One day, entering the classroom, Charlie overhears her classmates talking about a guy who knows how to listen and understand. Plus, he didn't sleep with any of them at the party, even though he had the opportunity. Having found out the address of this guy, Charlie began to write letters to him, expressing his experiences and thoughts, without indicating his address, and changed the names to others and similar ones.
Charlie talks about the strange suicide of his best friend Michael, a new friend in the person of his English teacher, his sister and her boyfriend, and his family. Later, Charlie talks about Patrick taking labor classes with him. Everyone called Patrick “No way.”
Some time later, Charlie meets Sam at a school football game; he later finds out that she is Patrick's half-sister. Charlie tells Sam how he feels, but Sam has a boyfriend, Craig, and advises her to forget about her. Then Patrick tells Charlie about the relationships between guys and girls. Patrick and Sam introduce Charlie to Bob and the whole party. Charlie tries drugs against his will.
The life of the main character changes greatly after these acquaintances. Charlie has his first sexual experience with Mary Elizabeth, but unfortunately he cannot forget Sam. Patrick reveals that he is gay and he is dating Brad. Their relationship later ends because Brad's father caught them together.
One day, Brad's friends trip Patrick, and he falls in front of the entire dining room. A fight ensues, which Charlie witnesses. He passed out, and when he came to his senses, he saw that he had saved Patrick. Charlie and Sam and Patrick's friendship is renewed.
Sam and Patrick finish school and leave to study in another city. On the last evening, Sam and Charlie kiss, thereby confessing their feelings to each other. Against the backdrop of worries about the departure of his friends, Charlie again remembers Aunt Helen and blames himself for her death. Charlie's psyche cannot stand it, and the young man has a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Charlie agrees to sessions with a psychologist and increasingly remembers his childhood, during which he admits to the psychologist that his aunt seduced him. The psychologist later tells Charlie's parents about this, and they give him support.
At the end of the film, Charlie, Sam and Patrick pass under that very tunnel, which has become for them a part of themselves and a part of eternity.
Cast
| Cast | Character | |
|---|---|---|
| Logan Lerman | Charlie- son of Mrs. Kelmekis and Mr. Kelmekis, brother of Chris and Candice, nephew of Aunt Helen, former best friend of Michael. Now he is in love with Sam and is dating her. | |
| Emma Watson | Sam- Patrick's half-sister (on his mother's side), ex-girlfriend Craig. Dating Charlie. | |
| Ezra Miller | Patrick- half-brother Sam (on his mother's side). Patrick is gay ex-boyfriend Brad. | |
| Mae Whitman | Mary Elizabeth- Buddhist and punk, Charlie's first girlfriend, unrequitedly in love with him, Alice's best friend. | |
| Erin Wilhelmi | Alice- Mary Elizabeth's best friend. Alice comes from a rich family. This girl loves vampires and wants to act in films. | |
| Julia Garner | Susan- Charlie's old friend, but lately they don't communicate. | |
| Johnny Simmons | Brad- gay, Patrick's ex-boyfriend. | |
| Reece Thompson (English)Russian | Craig- Sam's ex-boyfriend. | |
| Paul Rudd | Mr Anderson- teacher of English literature. | |
| Tom Savini | Mr. Callahan- labor teacher. | |
| Kate Walsh | Mrs Kelmekis- wife of Mr. Kelmekis, mother of Chris, Charlie and Candice. | |
| Dylan McDermott | Mr Kelmekis- husband of Mrs. Kelmekis, father of Chris, Charlie and Candace. | |
| Melanie Lynskey | Helen- Aunt of Chris, Charlie and Candace. | |
| Zane Holtz | Chris- son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelmekis, older brother of Charlie and Candace, nephew of Aunt Helen, university student. | |
| Nina Dobrev | Candice- daughter of the Kelmekis, sister of Charlie and Chris, niece of Aunt Helen, Derek's girlfriend. |
Soundtrack
| № | Name | Music | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Could It Be Another Change?" | The Samples | 3:27 |
| 2. | "Come On Eileen" | Dexys Midnight Runners | 4:12 |
| 3. | "Tugboat" | Galaxie 500 | 3:54 |
| 4. | "Temptation" | New Order | 5:22 |
| 5. | "Evensong" | The Innocence Mission | 3:40 |
| 6. | "Asleep" | The Smiths | 4:10 |
| 7. | "Low" | Cracker | 4:34 |
| 8. | "Teen Age Riot" | Sonic Youth | 6:57 |
| 9. | "Dear God" | XTC | 3:36 |
| 10. | "Pearly-Dewdrops" Drops | Cocteau Twins | 4:10 |
| 11. | "Charlie's Last Letter" | Michael Brook | 1:48 |
| 12. | "Heroes" | David Bowie | 6:08 |
Music
| № | Name | Music | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "First Day" | Michael Brook | 2:32 |
| 2. | "Home Again" | Michael Brook | 1:40 |
| 3. | "Charlie Speaks" | Michael Brook | 2:03 |
| 4. | "Candace" | Michael Brook | 1:46 |
| 5. | "Charlie's Gifts" | Michael Brook | 0:55 |
| 6. | "Kiss Breakdown" | Michael Brook | 5:12 |
| 7. | "Acid" | Michael Brook | 3:12 |
| 8. | "Charlie's First Kiss" | Michael Brook | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Shard" | Michael Brook | 2:47 |
Filming
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In 1808, Emperor Alexander traveled to Erfurt for a new meeting with Emperor Napoleon, and in high society in St. Petersburg there was a lot of talk about the greatness of this solemn meeting.In 1809, the closeness of the two rulers of the world, as Napoleon and Alexander were called, reached the point that when Napoleon declared war on Austria that year, the Russian corps went abroad to assist their former enemy Bonaparte against their former ally, the Austrian emperor; to the point that in high society talked about the possibility of a marriage between Napoleon and one of the sisters of Emperor Alexander. But, in addition to external political considerations, at this time the attention of Russian society was especially keenly drawn to the internal transformations that were being carried out at that time in all parts of public administration.
Life meanwhile real life people with their own essential interests of health, illness, work, leisure, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, passions, proceeded as always independently and outside of political affinity or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte, and outside of all possible transformations.
Prince Andrei lived in the village for two years without a break. All those enterprises on estates that Pierre started and did not bring to any result, constantly moving from one thing to another, all these enterprises, without showing them to anyone and without noticeable labor, were carried out by Prince Andrei.
He had, to a high degree, that practical tenacity that Pierre lacked, which, without scope or effort on his part, set things in motion.
One of his estates of three hundred peasant souls was transferred to free cultivators (this was one of the first examples in Russia); in others, corvee was replaced by quitrent. In Bogucharovo, a learned grandmother was written out to his account to help mothers in labor, and for a salary the priest taught children of peasants and courtyard servants to read and write.
Prince Andrei spent half of his time in Bald Mountains with his father and son, who was still with the nannies; the other half of the time in the Bogucharov monastery, as his father called his village. Despite the indifference he showed Pierre to all the external events of the world, he diligently followed them, received many books, and to his surprise he noticed when fresh people came to him or his father from St. Petersburg, from the very whirlpool of life, that these people, in knowledge of everything that is happening in foreign and domestic politics, they are far behind him, who sits in the village all the time.
In addition to classes on names, in addition to general studies of reading a wide variety of books, Prince Andrei was at this time engaged in a critical analysis of our last two unfortunate campaigns and drawing up a project to change our military regulations and regulations.
In the spring of 1809, Prince Andrei went to the Ryazan estates of his son, whom he was guardian.
Warmed by the spring sun, he sat in the stroller, looking at the first grass, the first birch leaves and the first clouds of white spring clouds scattering across the bright blue sky. He didn’t think about anything, but looked around cheerfully and meaninglessly.
We passed the carriage on which he had spoken with Pierre a year ago. We passed a dirty village, threshing floors, greenery, a descent with remaining snow near the bridge, an ascent through washed-out clay, stripes of stubble and green bushes here and there, and entered a birch forest on both sides of the road. It was almost hot in the forest; you couldn’t hear the wind. The birch tree, all covered with green sticky leaves, did not move, and from under last year’s leaves, lifting them, the first green grass and purple flowers crawled out. The small spruce trees scattered here and there along the birch forest with their coarse, eternal greenness were an unpleasant reminder of winter. The horses snorted as they rode into the forest and began to fog up.
The footman Peter said something to the coachman, the coachman answered in the affirmative. But apparently Peter had little sympathy for the coachman: he turned on the box to the master.
- Your Excellency, how easy it is! – he said, smiling respectfully.
- What!
- Easy, your Excellency.
"What is he saying?" thought Prince Andrei. “Yes, that’s right about spring,” he thought, looking around. And everything is already green... how soon! And the birch, and the bird cherry, and the alder are already starting... But the oak is not noticeable. Yes, here it is, the oak tree.”
There was an oak tree on the edge of the road. Probably ten times older than the birches that made up the forest, it was ten times thicker and twice as tall as each birch. It was a huge oak tree, two girths wide, with branches that had been broken off for a long time and with broken bark overgrown with old sores. With his huge, clumsy, asymmetrically splayed, gnarled hands and fingers, he stood like an old, angry and contemptuous freak between the smiling birches. Only he alone did not want to submit to the charm of spring and did not want to see either spring or the sun.
“Spring, and love, and happiness!” - as if this oak tree was saying, - “and how can you not get tired of the same stupid and senseless deception. Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. Look, there are the crushed dead spruce trees sitting, always the same, and there I am, spreading out my broken, skinned fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides; As we grew up, I still stand, and I don’t believe your hopes and deceptions.”
Prince Andrei looked back at this oak tree several times while driving through the forest, as if he was expecting something from it. There were flowers and grass under the oak tree, but he still stood in the midst of them, frowning, motionless, ugly and stubborn.
“Yes, he is right, this oak tree is right a thousand times,” thought Prince Andrei, let others, young people, again succumb to this deception, but we know life, our life is over! A whole new series of hopeless, but sadly pleasant thoughts in connection with this oak tree arose in the soul of Prince Andrei. During this journey, he seemed to think over his whole life again, and came to the same old reassuring and hopeless conclusion that he did not need to start anything, that he should live out his life without doing evil, without worrying and without wanting anything.
On guardianship matters of the Ryazan estate, Prince Andrei had to see the district leader. The leader was Count Ilya Andreich Rostov, and Prince Andrei went to see him in mid-May.
It was already a hot period of spring. The forest was already completely dressed, there was dust and it was so hot that driving past the water, I wanted to swim.
Prince Andrei, gloomy and preoccupied with considerations about what and what he needed to ask the leader about matters, drove up the garden alley to the Rostovs’ Otradnensky house. To the right, from behind the trees, he heard a woman's cheerful cry, and saw a crowd of girls running towards his stroller. Ahead of the others, a black-haired, very thin, strangely thin, black-eyed girl in a yellow chintz dress, tied with a white handkerchief, ran up to the carriage, from under which strands of combed hair were escaping. The girl screamed something, but recognizing the stranger, without looking at him, she ran back laughing.
Prince Andrei suddenly felt pain from something. The day was so good, the sun was so bright, everything around was so cheerful; and this thin and pretty girl did not know and did not want to know about his existence and was content and happy with her own separate - probably stupid - but cheerful and happy life. “Why is she so happy? what is she thinking about! Not about the military regulations, not about the structure of the Ryazan quitrents. What is she thinking about? And what makes her happy?” Prince Andrei involuntarily asked himself with curiosity.
Count Ilya Andreich in 1809 lived in Otradnoye still as before, that is, hosting almost the entire province, with hunts, theaters, dinners and musicians. He, like any new guest, was glad to see Prince Andrei, and almost forcibly left him to spend the night.
In continuation boring day, during which Prince Andrei was occupied by the senior hosts and the most honorable of the guests, with whom the old count’s house was full on the occasion of the approaching name day, Bolkonsky, looking several times at Natasha, laughing and having fun with something among the other young half of the company, kept asking himself: “what is she talking about?” thinks? Why is she so happy!”
