A Wallflowers Story

Being an adolescent in the 90’s is very tryi

Teenagers believe there peers don’t know what it’s like to be a teen because they’re too old. But everyone at one time or another will be or has been a teenager. They may not have dealt with the exact same issues, but they have dealt with same kind of pressure from society. And as today’s teens begin to grow some have kids and cycle continues again but in different views.

ng for teenagers. It has never changed, what has changed though is the environment that teens go to almost everyday of there teenage life, high school. Charlie’s writings take place in the beginning of the 90’s. Were

As teens are introduced to the vicious pit known as high school many are tested and put under constant pressure to look good, be smart, and popular at the same time. So teens try to stand strong under this pressure or they crack and fall into the double-edged sword of peer pressure. As many are under the constant pressure of the people they want to impress, they for get what we want for them. Such happens to Susan, a former friend of the character Charlie in The perks of being a wallflower “ I saw her standing in the hall, surrounded by a group of boys I didn’t know they were all laughing making sex jokes, and Susan was doing her best to laugh along with them.” (A P.144) As we drift apart from the independent person to the follower person. And we try to become someone were not and we begin to lose sight of who we are. As a result of trying to “laugh” along with people that teens try to associate with their personal opinions disappears and all there feelings are kept bottled inside. And as some teens will tell us like in the book Real boys voices, keeping feelings can often result a negative way. “There’s sort of a way that society robs kids my age of a lot of wonderful experiences. Because we’re not supposed to act certain ways, and we’re not supposed to ask for help when were in pain.”(Pollock155). As teens continue to play the role society demands us to play, their emotions become a casualty, and minds become filled with rage and anger towards the world. But the1950’s things were different, as people in there 40’s and 50’s today will tell.

self. But such things never had happened as often in the past. In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, tell of a college student named Holden who like Charlie see the superficial world, but unlike Charlie he has bitterness towards the world. And to disassociate with his world he fiercely try’s at great lengths to become the independent person that he desire’s to become.

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