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After using the bathroom, Charlie accidentally walks in on Patrick and Brad kissing, and Patrick asks Charlie to keep this secret because Brad is afraid of people finding out. Later in the evening, Patrick appreciatively calls Charlie a wallflower, and everyone at the party toasts to him.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel by Stephen Chbosky in which social outcast Charlie befriends fellow misfits Patrick and Sam. Socially awkward Charlie recently lost his best friend...
After using the bathroom, Charlie accidentally walks in on Patrick and the football quarterback, Brad, kissing, and Patrick asks Charlie to keep this secret because Brad is afraid of people finding out. Later in the evening, Patrick appreciatively calls Charlie a wallflower, and everyone at the party toasts to him.
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Charlie gets a C on his essay because his teacher Bill wants him to use vocabulary "nobody else knows or can say comfortably." Charlie and his mom go to the cemetery to visit Aunt Helen's grave. Aunt Helen used to let Charlie stay up late and watch television. Charlie recounts a memory in which his family watches the last episode of the television ...
Charlie goes to a football game and approaches Patrick, who introduces him to Sam. Afterward, they invite Charlie to a Big Boy restaurant, and they talk. Charlie is happy because they don't just "throw around inside jokes and make [him] struggle to keep up." When Sam and Patrick ask Charlie about his favorite book, he admits that it is always the l...
Charlie admits to Sam that he dreamed about her being naked, and she says she thinks he is "being cute." Sam tells Charlie that he is too young for her and that she does not want him to "waste [his] time thinking about [her] that way." Sam tells Patrick about Charlie's crush, and Patrick takes him aside and explains that "there are rules" to follow...
When Charlie talks to his father about the incident with his sister's boyfriend, he wonders if the boy is the way he is because of "problems at home." He asks his father if the boy's parents hit him. His father replies that he did not ask and does not think it matters. Charlie's father insists that "not everyone has a sob story."
Charlie recounts how he is trying to participate in more social events. He meets up with Patrick and Sam at the homecoming game on Friday night. They invite Charlie to a party after the game. While they watch the game, Charlie talks about how his brother once had a party and he witnessed a girl being raped by her boyfriend, Dave. Charlie asks Sam i...
Patrick trusts Charlie enough to tell Charlie all about his closeted sexuality, and about his hidden, complicated relationship with Brad. Charlie is very tolerant of his friends. To Charlie it doesn’t matter that Brad and Patrick are gay in terms of how he treats them as friends.
Two seniors befriend Charlie: Patrick, whose nickname is “Nothing,” and Sam, Patrick’s stepsister. Charlie immediately develops a crush on Sam, but he’s too shy to act on it. As it turns out, Patrick is secretly dating Brad, the closeted quarterback of the football team.
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Oct 6, 1991 · Charlie asks Patrick if he feels sad that he must keep his relationship a secret, and Patrick responds that he isn't sad "because at least now, Brad doesn't have to get drunk or stoned to make love" (109).
