The Perks of Being a Wallflower Themes

(Click the themes infographic to download.) The Beatles sang "I get by with a little help from my friends."Although this (somehow) isn't one of the many songs Charlie mentions in The Perks of Bei...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) You won't find the wallflower (Latin name: teenagerus nonparticipatus) in an issue of Better Homes & Gardens. On account of it not being a real flo...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) We're not amoebas. Without sex, none of us would be here. Unfortunately, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie seems to only see and experience o...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) When we look in our Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers, we see that the wallflower is classified as a late bloomer. But given plenty of water, sun, an...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) There's a fine line between shyness and passivity, and in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie skips back and forth across it like a jump rope. Sur...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Hugs, not drugs! Maybe that's one of the reasons Charlie has no reservations about experimenting with any drug that crosses his path: not enough hugs.T...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) Everybody's family is different, and never is that more apparent than in young-adult fiction. Usually one or both parents are dead, older siblings have...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) If Charlie were sending text messages instead of writing letters, they would probably consist of a lot of frowny-face emoticons. That is, if he could e...

(Click the themes infographic to download.) As you can imagine, we have a soft spot for this one. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie reads a dozen books over the course of the year, and...