I feel that the main characters in this novel “the perks of
being a wallflower” are mostly all round characters, meaning there is no
stereotypical character that anyone can just look at and be like, “oh, he must
be the smart one out of all the characters”. Some main characters that have
multiple traits are Charlie, Sam, and Patrick.
Charlie, one of the main characters, has multiple traits.
Charlie is someone that you can trust, Charlie is someone who is brave, and
Charlie is also very smart, he tends to read a lot, and writes a lot such as
his diary. Charlie is always the person that people can trust and rely on,
during the novel; Charlie has been trusted by his sister, Sam, and Patrick. During
pages number 150-151, a fight erupts with Patrick and Brad after Brad insults
Patrick, Patrick then gets jumped by Brad’s friends and that’s when Charlie
proceeded to help him by fighting them, after Charlie helped Patrick, I really
felt that the character trait of Charlie being brave was proven in that moment.
Sam, one of the main characters, also has multiple character
traits, Sam is someone who is very social, friendly, and can sometimes be
bossy. Sam was one of Charlie’s first friends in high school, during pages
18-20, Sam and Patrick introduce them to Charlie, and also greeted him into his
first party where he met a lot of other people, making Charlie a lot more
comfortable of high-school after his only friend, Michael, committed suicide
before high-school, Sam in my opinion was one of the reasons why Charlie was
happy during his grade 9 year.
Patrick, one of the main characters, has many character
traits such as, funny, sociable, outgoing, trustworthy, and a jokester. Patrick
was one of the people that Charlie looked up to during the beginning of the
novel, Charlie saw Patrick as someone who is funny and someone who can make
friends with anyone and no one would ever faze him. During pages, 17-18,
Patrick introduced Charlie to Sam who created a friendship between the three of
them, making Patrick someone who is very outgoing, and sociable.
Hi. Gabriel. I didn't think about other characters like Sam and Patrick.
ReplyDeleteI just used Charlie for my blog post assignment. Your post helped me to understand main characters. When i was writing my blog post, I was thinking that other characters made Charlie to became a "round" character.What do you think?
Good consideration of multiple characters, and I agree with JungHyun that sometimes relationships between characters can even help seemingly flat stereotypical characters more interesting.
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